Google Cloud Platform leads our day with a few announcements. First, they announced the availability of Cloud Machine Learning. I have not looked deeply into the details, but this is a very interesting idea and is yet another shot at Amazon. They also released Stackdriver, unified monitoring and logging for Google Cloud Platform and AWS. I like the idea of this because they know you will probably have some infrastructure on AWS, but you will look at your logging and monitoring more often. Another interesting article comes from Code as Craft where they basically have a long term cache for any text that gets translated by a third party. It is an interesting look at how a company depends on a third party service but can do some interesting things to improve performance and cost. Also, there is much consternation in the world of npm. Due to some issues with npm, Azer Koçulu decided to unpublish his modules, which ended up breaking a lot of people’s builds. There are several posts related to this and the future of npm.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Making the Most of Grad School for Programmers | DaedTech
• Does Competition Help Innovation? | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Reflections on Programming | Sam Koblenski
• I’ve Just Liberated My Modules | Azer Koçulu
• Kotlin Month Post 4: Properties | Java Code Geeks
• Npm package author revokes his packages, breaking tons of builds | Evert’s blog
• Code Faster with Fewer Bugs | DZone Agile
• Exploring Rust | Nicholas Blumhardt
• Getting Started with Angular 2 | Raible Designs
• R Learning Path: From beginner to expert in R in 7 steps | KD Nuggets
• Implementing A Bounded Context | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Building a Translation Memory to Improve Machine Translation Coverage and Quality | Code as Craft
• FairRide: Near-Optimal, Fair Cache Sharing | the morning paper
• HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it. | Rachel By the Bay
• What does Etsy’s architecture look like today? | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Cornu’s Spiral | John D Cook
• Google takes Cloud Machine Learning service mainstream | Google Cloud Platform
• Must Know Tips for Deep Learning Neural Networks, Part 2 | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Lift Analysis – A Data Scientist’s Secret Weapon | KD Nuggets

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Measuring SMTP STARTTLS Deployment Quality | Yahoo Security
• The misunderstood X-XSS-Protection | XSS Jigsaw
• Race you to the kernel! | Project Zero

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Introducing Google Stackdriver: unified monitoring and logging for GCP and AWS | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 23, 2016 (#2214) | Morning Dew