Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages.

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Top Stories

• Focus by Firefox – Content Blocking for the Open Web | Mozilla
• Amazon Starts Building Its Own Bundle by Selling Showtime, Starz and More With Amazon Prime | re/code

Startups, Career and Process

• Open issues: lessons learned building an open source business | Ben Werdmuller
• Pythonistas, Rubyists, and Gophers: Hiring Preferences Across Language Camps | Job Tips For Geeks
• Why (not how) to start a startup? | Ankit Oberoi’s Blog

Design and Development

• Why I’m Excited About Native CSS Variables | Philip Walton
• Building realtime collaborative offline-first apps with React, Redux, PouchDB and WebSockets | YLD Software
• Are Go maps sensitive to data races ? | Dave Cheney
• Throwing an Exception Without Proper Context Is a Bad Habit | Java Code Geeks
• The convergence of compilers, build systems and package managers | Inside 736-131
• Using Mockito without static imports with Java 8 | Java Code Geeks
• Bootstrapping trust in compilers | Owl’s Portfolio
• Event-Driven Data Management for Microservices | DZone Integration

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Algorithms vs Moore’s Law | John D. Cook

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Four Ways to Create a Mesh for a Sphere | Game Dev Daily
• 20 Lessons From Building Machine Learning Systems | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Art of Data Science: The Skills You Need and How to Get Them | Java Code Geeks
• How Many Companies Actually Have Big Data Skills? | The Data Point

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• The Serverless Start-up – Down with Servers! | High Scalability

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Protecting hundreds of millions more mobile users | Google Online Security
• Dec 8: How to stop a DDoS attack | FastMail

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1601 | A Fresh Cup
• Four short links: 8 December 2015 | O’Reilly Radar
• Dew Drop – December 8, 2015 (#2147) | Morning Dew