Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications. Lastly, Mozilla talks about how advance disclosure is needed to keep users secure.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- What Makes Testing in Agile Successful? | DZone Agile
- What’s the Right Ratio Between QA Testers and Developers? | DZone Agile
- What Makes a (Good) Product? | DZone Agile
- 10 Ways Not to Do Change Management | DZone Agile
- You can’t remember every detail, so stop trying | Cindy Potvin
Design and Development
- Monads (and Functional Programming) in Ruby with Monadt | Atomic Object
- The Expression Problem and its solutions | Eli Bendersky
- CompressedOops: Introduction to compressed references in Java | Java Code Geeks
- Java and Memory Limits in Containers: LXC, Docker and OpenVZ | DZone Java
- The Joys and Woes of Pair Programming | The Lean Software Boutique
- Giving up on Julia | Victor Zverovich
- Dirty Hacks Are OK | Java Code Geeks
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Writing with the machine | Robin Sloan
- SyntaxNet in context: Understanding Google’s new TensorFlow NLP model | spaCy
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- How to Integrate Custom Data Sources Into Apache Spark | Java Code Geeks
- Ideal Messaging Capabilities for Streaming Data | Java Code Geeks
- Shot Blocking in the NHL Playoffs | yhat
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by Talos | Cisco Talos Blog
- Advance Disclosure Needed to Keep Users Secure | Mozilla
- SWIFT says second bank hit by malware attack | Reuters
- How 18F handles information security and third party applications | 18F
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- AWS Lambda for Beginners | Java Code Geeks
Regular Geek 