Google starts our day by announcing a new design for Google+. The focus is on the more community related items and not a general social network. I think it makes sense based on what I have seen in the past few years. On Google Cloud Platform we now get custom machine types, which is a huge bonus for anyone using cloud platforms. The inflexibility of the sizing of each server has always been a pain point for developers (or at least me). Martin Vigo presents some interesting research where he can compromise passwords in LastPass. I encourage you to read the post because there is a lot of good information on how to properly secure yourself as well as the details of how they crack the LastPass vault.

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

Top Stories

• Introducing the new Google+ | Official Google Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• The Aspiring Free Agent Survival Guide | DaedTech

Design and Development

• From Arrays to Streams and Back with Java 8 | Java Code Geeks
• A day is not 60*60*24 seconds long | Swizec Teller
• Why 1000 == 1000 Returns False, but 100 == 100 Returns True in Java? | DZone Java
• Memento Pattern | DZone Java
• Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application | Arnaud Bailly

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The hidden costs of allocations | Ayende @ Rahien
• Free Book: Practical Scalablility Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Emotion-Based Computing: What It Is and How You Can Benefit | Java Code Geeks
• Meanwhile Over In Computer Science | Blog on math blogs
• Slicing Earth, Carefully | Marcin Ciura
• Introduction to Anomaly Detection: Concepts and Techniques | My view of the World and Systems

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Monitoring at Spotify: Introducing Heroic | Spotify Labs
• Plotly.js, a JavaScript graphing library, open-sourced | Flowing Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Sensu – What I’ve Learnt | roobert
• Continuously Delivering SOA | DZone Integration
• Announcing CircleCI Insights: Helping You Understand Your Builds | The CircleCI Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• More Privacy, Less Latency – Improved Handshakes in TLS version 1.3 | Tim Taubert
• Even the LastPass Will be Stolen Deal with It! | Martin Vigo
• Scaling Tor hidden services | Bentham’s Gaze

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Custom Machine Types: The freedom to configure the best VM shape for your workload. | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1587 | A Fresh Cup
• Four short links: 18 November 2015 | O’Reilly Radar