Overall, the Apple WWDC was somewhat underwhelming. However, The Next Web reports on an interesting tidbit about Siri opening up to all third-party apps. Chef released Habitat a new open source project for automating applications. I have not dug into it yet, so I can’t comment too much, but it is good to see the operations companies trying to push automation further up the lifecycle. Ayende @ Rahien has another excellent post in the database internals series. This one is about B+Trees, and is well worth the read.

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

Top Stories

• Siri is opening up to all third-party apps | The Next Web

Startups, Career and Process

• Successful Sprint Retrospectives: Tips and Tools | Atomic Object
• How To Roll Out New Features Without Hurting Loyal Users | Smashing Magazine
• 5 Signs of Managed Platform Entropy | DZone Agile
• Agile Economics: The Cost of Change | Gil Zilberfeld

Design and Development

• Implementing Queues for Event-Driven Programs | IT Hare on Soft.ware
• Four months with Haskell | Alexis King
• Should you be scared of Unix signals? | Julia Evans
• My Journey to Face the Lambda Expressions in Java | DZone Java
• Hystrix Part 1: Getting Started With Hystrix | DZone Integration
• Folding the Universe Part I: Functional Java | DZone Java
• Not All Beginnings Must Have An End | i3arnon

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Rapidly Accelerate Your Progress in Applied Machine Learning With Weka | Machine Learning Mastery
• How to Select Support Vector Machine Kernels | KD Nuggets
• Machine Learning is Fun! Part 3: Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks | Adam Geitgey

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Spark Key Terms, Explained | KD Nuggets
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: B+Tree | Ayende @ Rahien
• Growing to Obesity | Flowing Data
• Continuous Data Migration | S.Lott-Software Architect

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Fun with DNS | Vena Engineering
• Habitat – a new open source project for automating applications | Chef Blog
• 9 Common Dockerfile Mistakes | runnable

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Stop using JWT for sessions | joepie91’s Ramblings

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – June 14, 2016 (#2271) | Morning Dew