The Geekess leads the day again, but this time it is a very positive post about what makes a good community. More than anything, I think the post was only written because of the much larger number of positive comments on her last post. On Rants on Machine Learning, they show us what to do with “small” data. This is very similar to my opinion on ML, if you are not a statistician, learn about statistics as it will be very useful. David MacIver talks about the economics of software correctness. Basically, it is ridiculously expensive to ensure that software is correct, meaning people don’t die because of a bug. For the typical software shop, this is an unreasonable cost.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• What makes a good community? | The Geekess

Startups, Career and Process

• The Evolution of a Freelancer: Lessons from the Hallway Track at DYFConf | Swizec Teller
• The economics of software correctness | David R. MacIver

Design and Development

• Unit-testing (embedded) C applications with Ceedling | Dmitry Frank
• Refactoring & Type Errors in Clojure: Experience and Prevention | The Holy Java
• Reactive PostgreSQL: Listen to Notifications With Scala | DZone Database
• The 3REE Stack: React + Redux + RethinkDB + Express.js | WorkShape
• Today’s Milestone: Refactoring and Django Migrations | S.Lott-Software Architect
• Improve Productivity With RelProxy for Java | DZone Java
• The microservices cargo cult | Stavros’ Stuff
• Writing a fuzzy receipt parser in Python | trivago techblog
• In-app translations in Android Marshmallow | Android Developers Blog
• Common misconception: How many objects does this create? | Vanilla Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Your Load Generator is Probably Lying to You – Take the Red Pill and Find Out Why | High Scalability
• Why Intel added cache partitioning in Broadwell and how it can increase performance by 1.3x to 3x | Dan Luu

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Number of digits in n factorial | John D Cook
• What to do with “small” data? | Rants on Machine Learning

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Announcing Microservice-Level Monitoring for ECS | Sysdig Cloud

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Reverse Engineering With Radare2, Part 1 | Sam Symons
• Effective Cryptography in the JVM | Terse Systems

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Google Apps: New Domain Management Features in the Admin SDK | Google Apps Developer Blog
• New – AWS WAF | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – October 6, 2015 (#2105) | Morning Dew