A post on Mozilla Hacks leads our day as they announce experimental support in multiple browsers for WebAssembly. This is a big milestone and could have a significant impact on website performance. Google Analytics announces their 360 Suite, a set of analytics applications for premium subscribers. It is good to finally see Google put some… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2016 #1064
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
We start our week with a post from All Things Distributed about 10 lessons from 10 years of Amazon web services. It is an interesting look at AWS from someone who has been there from the beginning. On Java Code Geeks, they give us an introduction to use Apache Spark Streaming with Scala. Another good… Read More Geek Reading March 14, 2016 #1062
Leading our day, Mark Reinhold gives us a long overview of the state of the module system in Java 9. MIT News reports on a new system that loads pages 34 percent faster. It will be interesting to see how this gets implemented in the real world, but they are promising results. UC San Diego… Read More Geek Reading March 11, 2016 #1061
Google Research starts our day with an article on deep learning for robots. They talk about networked robots can share their experience with one another to learn more quickly. Skynet might not be far behind 😛 On the Android Developers blog, they announced the first preview of Android N. This preview came as a surprise… Read More Geek Reading March 10, 2016 #1060
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
It is Tuesday, so of course that means we get a pile of new security articles 🙂 On Krebs on Security, they talk about a recent phish at Seagate where it exposed all employee W-2’s. That is a huge problem given the amount of personal information available. Softpedia reports on the Custom Content Type Manager… Read More Geek Reading March 8, 2016 #1058
There are a lot of good articles to read today. First, on High Scalability we get a post about an async Tarantool queue. It is interesting reading if you are into that kind of thing. Also on the performance front, we get an article on Java Code Geeks about scalable I/O and whether to use… Read More Geek Reading March 7, 2016 #1057
Another slow news day yesterday, so we have a continued focus on development. First, on NOUPE they talk about the Google Resizer tool which shows you how your site responds to different sized devices. It is not a perfect tool, so depending on how you developed for mobile, you might not be getting the right… Read More Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056
Thankfully, yesterday was a slower news day. Today we get to focus on more development related stories. On the Nextflix Tech Blog, they show us how they are caching content around the world. RedHat talks about 10 things to avoid in Docker containers. Martin Fowler starts his part of the discussion on infrastructure as code.… Read More Geek Reading March 3, 2016 #1055
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