Another acquisition leads the day as TechCrunch reports on Google’s acquisition of Divshot. Benedict Evans gives us an interesting post on how the browser wars were much different than today where mobile is not a neutral platform. If you are looking for some new talent and you know people from Twitter, TechCrunch reports on the layoffs occurring there.

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

Top Stories

• Mobile is not a neutral platform | Benedict Evans
• Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December | TechCrunch

Startups, Career and Process

• The Difference Between Remote and Distributed Teams in Startups | DZone Agile
• Large companies and fast cars | Allan Kelly
• Getting (the Right) Stuff Done | Learning by Shipping
• Twitter Is Laying Off 8 Percent Of The Company | TechCrunch
• Why is Kanban Right for Product Development? | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• NodeJS : A quick optimization advice | Julien CROUZET
• Annotation-driven Event Listeners in Spring 4.2+ | DZone Java
• Oracles from the Inside Out, Part 7: References as Checks | Developsense Blog
• Akka Typed: First Steps With Typed Actors in Scala | DZone Java
• The Future of Web Development – React, Falcor, and ES6 | Widen Engineering
• Refactoring Module Dependencies | Martin Fowler
• Retryable operations | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Training (deep) Neural Networks Part: 1 | Upul Bandara
• Heuristic models for marginal probability assessment updates | xheimlichkeit
• Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks | Lars Eidnes

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Capsule Shield: A Docker Alternative Tailor-Made for the JVM | Parallel Universe

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Bitcoin block propagation with IBLT | popeller.io
• Credit Card Breach at America’s Thrift Stores | Krebs on Security
• Gaining Root On The Google OnHub | Exploitee.rs

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Live from Next Paris: Empowering Developers to Build Smart Applications | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – October 13, 2015 (#2110) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1564 | A Fresh Cup