Amazon dumped a pile of updates on us today, so we have a few highlights. First, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now has managed platform updates. Amazon Cognito adds user pools to their offering. AWS Device Farm updates so that you now get remote access to devices for interactive testing. There are a bunch of other updates for Amazon AWS and their associated tools, so check out all of their news.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• A Taxonomy of Software Consultants | DaedTech

Design and Development

• The Beauty Of React Native: Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript (Part 2) | Smashing Magazine
• Bluebird in the wild: Advanced promise-based workflows | runnable
• A polyglot’s guide to multiple dispatch | Eli Bendersky’s website
• How Etsy Formats Currency | Code As Craft
• Spring Async and Java’s 8 CompletableFuture | Java Code Geeks
• JUnit 5 – Extension Model | Java Code Geeks
• Creating a language (Enkel) on the JVM | Jakub Dziworski
• Kotlin + Android First Impressions | Java Code Geeks
• Beautiful Constructors | DZone Java
• How to Pick Dependencies From a Developer’s Point of View | DZone Agile

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Top 15 Frameworks for Machine Learning Experts | KD Nuggets
• Support Vector Machines for Machine Learning | Machine Learning Mastery
• An Introduction to Inference | koaning.io
• ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks | the morning paper

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• First steps to Spring Boot Cassandra | Java Code Geeks
• PostgreSQL Streaming Replication in 10 Minutes | Douglas J Hunley
• Shifting Parent Work Hours, Mom vs. Dad | Flowing Data

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Widespread JBoss Backdoors a Major Threat | Cisco Talos Blog

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Managed Platform Updates for AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon AWS Blog
• Your User Pools for Amazon Cognito | Amazon AWS Blog
• AWS Device Farm Update – Remote Access to Devices for Interactive Testing | Amazon AWS Blog

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1673 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – April 20, 2016 (#2234) | Morning Dew