Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a 100mpg engine using the concepts of a Stirling engine and newer hybrid technology. It is very cool stuff.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Samsung buys cloud infrastructure provider Joyent, will keep operating as standalone company | VentureBeat
- Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs | VentureBeat
Startups, Career and Process
- The Difference Between BDD and Integration Testing | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Maintainability and Expect Literals | Jay Fields’ Thoughts
- Notes on Reactive Programming Part II | DZone Java
- 18 Lessons From 13 Years of Tricky Bugs | Henrik Warne
- 9 Important Steps for Successful Integration Projects | DZone Integration
- React Native: It’s not all sugar and spice | Add Jam
- AutoValue: Generated Immutable Value Classes | Inspired by Actual Events
- Smoke and Sanity Testing: The Key Differences | DZone Agile
- Vaadin Custom Layout Example | Java Code Geeks
- ES Modules and Node.js: Hard Choices | nodesource
- Cleaning up Parallel Tests in Go 1.7 | Kevin Burke
- Outsmarting Go Dependencies in Testing Code | Cockroach Labs
- Migrating a 10,000-line legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript | Philip Guo
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Seeing the forest for the trees | Ayende @ Rahien
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Our road to Docker Swarm | codepicnic
- how ansible took down our servers | heartsucker
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
Fun and Other stuff
- Man builds 100mpg engine using 200-year-old technology | Digital Trends
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – June 16, 2016 (#2273) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1699 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – June 17, 2016 (#2274) | Morning Dew
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