Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how they recommend things for the world. This comes on the heels of announcing availability in many more countries. KD Nuggets gives us some interesting analysis of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. The visualization that shows the changes between years is especially interesting.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Bad Things I’ve Wanted To Say About Lean And Agile | Adaptech Solutions
• Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 1 | Johanna Rothman
• On Strategizing | Conversation Agent

Design and Development

• Parsing Java 8 Streams Into SQL | Java Code Geeks
• Getting Ready For HTTP/2: A Guide For Web Designers And Developers | Smashing Magazine
• Generic binary trees in ES6 | casual javascript
• Easy Database Manipulation with Groovy and Gradle | Java Code Geeks
• Akka Tutorials: Messages Between Actors v.2 | DZone Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The cost of routing | Ayende @ Rahien
• Building nginx and Tarantool based services | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Bayes Theorem for Computer Scientists, Explained | KD Nuggets
• Frequency modulation (FM) and Bessel functions | John D Cook
• Running your models in production with TensorFlow Serving | Google Research
• Recommending for the World | The Netflix Tech Blog

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Stream Processing Everywhere – What to Use? | Java Code Geeks
• Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms: gainers and losers | KD Nuggets
• Hunting Down Phantom Write Spikes in RDS Postgres | Pixlee

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Hey developer! DevOps doesn’t mean what you think it does | The Next Web

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• What it looks like to process 3.5 million books in Google’s cloud | Google Cloud Platform
• Custom Machine Types goes GA, saving you up to 50% on compute costs | Google Cloud Platform

Fun and Other stuff

• Stop Jupiter | XKCD What If

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 16, 2016 (#2189) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1645 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – February 17, 2016 (#2190) | Morning Dew