The big story of the day is the new Slack Platform launch. With this launch and the associated development fund, Slack is trying to position itself as a business platform to build solutions on top of. It will be interesting to watch how this really evolves. Mozilla now gives us more control over our data in their private browsing mode of Firefox. They are really positioning Firefox as the customizable browser when compared to IE and Chrome. Amazon AWS announces the availability of encrypted EBS boot volumes. The basic idea is to help people using EC2 meet their compliance and auditing needs.

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

Top Stories

• The Slack Platform Launch | Slack

Startups, Career and Process

• When the Quality of Your Code Becomes the Quality of Your Brand | DZone Agile
• Introducing Example Mapping | Cucumber
• Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 3 | Johanna Rothman
• Rebooting ALM, Part III: Weakness | Gil Zilberfeld
• The Story Behind One Introduction, The Data Behind 100K Introductions | Numerate Choir

Design and Development

• Reactive Development Using Vert.x | Java Code Geeks
• Going Beyond Just JSON Data and Considering Relationships and Actions | DZone Integration
• BFF @ SoundCloud | ThoughtWorks Insights
• How we break things at Twitter: failure testing | Twitter Blogs
• Progressive Versioning | All in the Head
• Go: init() and organizing your webapp | Authentic Form & Function
• Move Fast and Fix Things | GitHub
• Why I no longer use MVC Frameworks? | Platform Strategy & Architecture

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Computing integrals with sinc and jinc functions | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker Swarm Cluster using Consul | Java Code Geeks
• Can We Use Jenkins for That? | Simon Engineering

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Protecting Windows Networks – Kerberos Attacks | DFIR Blog
• Firefox Gives You More Control Over Your Data in Private Browsing | Mozilla
• HTML5 Mastery: Web Security | Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1606 | A Fresh Cup
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