We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex environments and a lot of assumptions get made about what goes into that kind of thing. Flowing Data shows us some cool visualizations for maps. The post is based on “all roads lead to Rome”, but visualizations for other cities can be found as well.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Why Agile Teams Work | DZone Agile
- How to READ a Job Posting (and When to Apply) | DZone Java
- Always Looking Ahead | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Open Source .NET – 1 year later | Matt Warren
- Native Speed File Backed Large Data Storage In ‘Pure’ Java | Java Code Geeks
- Building a cross-platform desktop app with NW.js, React & Flux | Finch
- With Great Availability Comes Great Performance | DZone Java
- Functional Data Structures in Java 8 with Javaslang | Java Code Geeks
- Queue-Centric Workflow | Kostas Bariotis
- Migrating Spring App to MicroServices App on AWS | Java Code Geeks
- We Have a DREAM: Distributed Reactive Programming with Consistency Guarantees | the morning paper
- Maven vs Gradle – One Year Later | DZone Java
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems | Alvaro Videla
- High Quality Video Encoding at Scale | The Netflix Tech Blog
- Google has quietly launched an Akamai competitor | VentureBeat
- Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup for WHAT? | Shtetl-Optimized
- The Cost and Complexity of Cgo | Cockroach Labs
- Top 5 Java Profilers Revealed | DZone Java
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- All the roads that lead to Rome | Flowing Data
- What’s the best database for an analyst? | Mode Blog
- Real-Time Applications With RethinkDB | Java Code Geeks
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Attacking HTTP/2 Implementations | Yahoo Security
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1603 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – December 10, 2015 (#2149) | Morning Dew
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