Google and Amazon have been announcing a bundle of fun. Amazon announced QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Inspector and EC2 Dedicated Hosts. Rackspace also announced that they are an AWS Managed Services partner. Not to be outdone, Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, custom email, apps and more for Google Domains, cloud native MySQL sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes, and the Cloud Platform Security Scanner.

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Startups, Career and Process

• Second languages and selection bias | John D Cook
• Runnable Documentation: Code for Humans | GitHub Engineering

Design and Development

• You Can’t Test All the Things: API, IoT, ROI TBD | DZone Integration
• Get Good at Testing Your Own Software | DaedTech
• Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes | Lucid Mesh
• A Detailed Look at Controllers in Java EE 8 MVC | DZone Java
• Building Cloud Native Apps With Spring – Part 1 | DZone Java
• Simpler handling of asynchronous transaction bound events in Spring 4.2 | Java Code Geeks
• Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web | Official Google Blog
• Rapid Development with Hibernate in CQRS Read Models | DZone Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Ludicrously Fast Page Loads – A Guide for Full-Stack Devs | Nate Berkopec
• Chat Service Architecture: Servers | The Riot Games Engineering Tech Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• A brief introduction to computational semantics | Anaphora Resolved
• Generating quines in Ruby | Chaps

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data | AWS Official Blog
• Amazon Kinesis Firehose – Simple & Highly Scalable Data Ingestion | AWS Official Blog

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Developing with Docker at IFTTT | Nicholas Silva

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot | Krebs on Security
• Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service | AWS Official Blog

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Custom email, apps and more for Google Domains | Google and Your Business
• Cloud Native MySQL Sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes | Google Cloud Platform
• Coming Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts | AWS Official Blog
• Rackspace Announces AWS Managed Service Offerings at re:Invent | Rackspace

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – October 7, 2015 (#2106) | Morning Dew