VentureBeat leads the day reporting on the growth of computer science as a major for women at Stanford. Obviously, this is just one school and it is near Silicon Valley, but this could be the start of a larger trend. The Guardian tells us about more carmakers that have issues with their diesel emissions tests. This is not a good sign for diesel cars, and might push more buyers to hybrids or electrics. There are a pile of good articles in the data and visualization section, so definitely take a look at those as well.

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

Top Stories

• Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University | VentureBeat
• Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row | The Guardian

Startups, Career and Process

• The Scaled Agile Puzzle? You’re missing a piece. | DZone Agile
• Make Yourself Big And Get More Job Offers | DaedTech
• The “Big 4”, GitHub, Bootcamps and Rants – Conversations Overheard From the Kids’ Table | DZone Agile
• I recently invested in over 150 startups | Startups & Venture Capital

Design and Development

• The Neomonolith | inconshreveable
• Thinking About Function Signatures in Elixir | Rob Conery
• Emotional Attachment to Code | code readability
• The Business Impact of SIP Trunking | DZone Integration
• Distributed Stream and Graph Processing with Apache Flink | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Padding is hard | Dave Cheney
• Single RX queue kernel bypass in Netmap for high packet rate networking | CloudFlare

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Paul Allen’s team of AI experts just nailed the SATs – with a robot | GeekWire
• Identifying music genres from Spotify album covers using Clarifai’s API and Google Prediction | Alexandre Passant
• GADTs Meet Their Match: Pattern-Matching Warnings That Account for GADTs, Guards, and Laziness | Lambda the Ultimate

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• A timeline of history | Flowing Data
• Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States | Center for Data Innovation
• Integrating Syslog w/ Kinesis : Anticipating use of the Firehose | Java Code Geeks
• Data Science for Losers, Part 2 | Coding
• Visualizing Machine Learning Thresholds to Make Better Business Decisions | Insight Data Labs
• Automating Analytic Workflows on AWS | Amazon AWS Big Data
• How We Partitioned Airbnb’s Main Database in Two Weeks | Airbnb Engineering

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform | Segment
• End-to-End Automation for Docker-based Java Apps | DZone Java
• Understanding Infrastructure as Code | Cloudonaut

Link Collections

• Web Development Reading List #107 | Smashing Magazine
• Dew Drop – October 9, 2015 (#2108) | Morning Dew