Microsoft starts our week with their open source release of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data. They really need to work on naming things, Google has TensorFlow and Microsoft has DMLT, it just does not sound exciting. On Made of Bugs, they talk about what MongoDB got right. This is an interesting post because they are not really trying to defend it but they do give you some interesting bits to think about. DaedTech has a very interesting post on promoting people and how it affects your culture. This is hugely important for smaller companies because the people you promote or reward really do define who you are as a company.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• If You Promote Bad People, You Promote Bad Culture | DaedTech
• The Role of Specifications in Agile | DZone Agile
• 10 Typical Mistakes in Product Specs | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Production postmortem: The case of the “it is slow on that machine (only)” | Ayende @ Rahien
• Quick Go-lang for Java Developers | Java Code Geeks
• JSF Scopes Tutorial – JSF/CDI Session Scope | Java Code Geeks
• ActorDB – How and why we run SQLite on top of LMDB | biokoda
• In Defense of the Lazy Programmer | DZone Agile
• API Throttling to Protect Your Resources | Engin Yöyen
• Role-based authorization in Rails | chaps

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• pool_party – Transactional allocation for short-lived requests | appnexus
• How Facebook’s Safety Check Works | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Microsoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data research | Inside Microsoft Research
• A Statistical View of Deep Learning | KD Nuggets
• Evaluating language identification performance | Twitter Blogs
• Building a Recommendation Engine with Spark ML on Amazon EMR using Zeppelin | Amazon AWS Big Data
• Birds, Apps, and Users: Scalable Factorization Machines | Yahoo Labs

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Web Tool Helps People Visualize, Make Sense of Large Complex Datasets | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
• What MongoDB got Right | Made of Bugs
• Data Science Roundup #9: Women in Data Science, Making Sense of TensorFlow and more | The Data Point

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• 4 questions to ask before Dockerizing your applications | VentureBeat

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Latest Android phones hijacked with tidy one-stop-Chrome-pop | The Register
• Safe Browsing protection from even more deceptive attacks | Google Online Security
• Why the Tor attack matters | A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

Fun and Other stuff

• You do not want to be an edge case | John D. Cook

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1584 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – November 13, 2015 (#2132) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #112: Updated Edge, Performance Monitoring, & How to Stay Relevant | Smashing Magazine
• Programming Digest #133 for November 16, 2015 | Weekly Programming Newsletter