Leading the day is yet another security issue, this one reported on Bits Please. They describe an Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions. Some of the security issues that I list tend to be more research based than potential threats, and this falls into the research category. That does not mean that you should ignore them, always get as many updates as you can for your OS. On the morning paper blog, we get a distributed systems seminar reading list. I normally do not highlight the link collections that I share, but if you are remotely interested in distributed systems, this is a great list of papers to review. Immutable infrastructure is starting to become a real thing, and there is a great post at VCDXpert about using Amazon AWS and Ansible.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• How Expensive Is Your Outsourcing Team? | DZone Agile
• Meeting Testing Standards in Fast-paced Environments | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• JavaOne 2015: Advanced Modular Development | Java Code Geeks
• Sendfile – a system call for web developers to know about! | Julia Evans
• How I fixed libuv | davidvgalbraith
• Feature Bias, or Rethinking the Blub Paradox | Jonathan Turner
• The benefits of static typing without static typing in Python | Pawel Miech
• 9 things every React.js beginner should know | Cam Jackson
• Clojure: First steps with reducers | Mark Needham
• The Sega Saturn and Transparency | Matt Greer
• Why TDD Should Not be Controversial | DZone Agile
• Kotlin-like Builders in Java and Python, Continued: Additional Parameters | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The importance of a data format: Part VII – Final benchmarks | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Organizing My Emails With A Neural Net | Andrey Kurenkov
• My Trouble with Bayes | The Multidisciplinarian
• Gaussian Processes with Clojure | Yieldbot

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Postgres Query Plan Visualization | Alex Tatiyants
• Data Science: Do the Numbers – Part 1 | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• The Dokku Trap | Random Thoughts
• Immutable Infrastructure with AWS and Ansible – Part 1 – Setup | VCDXpert
• I want to be a Devops! | Philip Reynolds

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions (CVE-2014-7920 + CVE-2014-7921) | Bits, Please!

Link Collections

• Programming Digest #143 for January 25, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
• Data Science Roundup #18: Microsoft Making Moves, Kaggle Releases Open Data Platform, and more | The Data Point
• A Distributed Systems Seminar Reading List | the morning paper
• Double Shot #1631 | A Fresh Cup
• The Daily Six Pack: January 25, 2016 | Dirk Strauss