Amazon starts our day again, with two new announcements. First, the Elastic File System is now “production ready” in three regions. Also, SNS Messages can now deliver SMS messages worldwide. Thankfully, Twilio was able to have their IPO just before this news, otherwise that could have been a much different outcome. At Ayende @ Rahien we get another post on the database internals, this one focused on managing concurrency. They use my favorite image for multithreaded programming, which also gives me a reason to post that image again. Johanna Rothman continues her Product Owners and Learning series, which is again another great read.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• SAFe Versus Scrum at Scale: Which Works Best for You? | DZone Agile
• How Do I Find Good Recruiters? | DaedTech
• How to Help a New Hire Feel Like Part of the Team | Atomic Object
• Product Owners and Learning, Part 5 | Johanna Rothman

Design and Development

• The Librarian: Introduction to Test-Driven Development | Java Code Geeks
• This is Not Your Grandmother’s C++ | Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
• Java 9 Additions To Optional | Java Code Geeks
• Open Source Middleware Market Trends Revisited | DZone Integration
• Cross-Origin Techniques | DZone Integration

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Are Web APIs as available and performant as you think? | apiful
• JGroups: Leader election without additional infrastructure | Java Code Geeks
• Why Data Replication Should Not Be Done Using ESB-Based Integration Tools | DZone Integration
• Scaling Hotjar’s Architecture: 9 Lessons Learned | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• A neural conversation model | the morning paper
• Universal rendering with SwiftShader, now open source | Chromium Blog
• Wide & Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow | Google Research

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Managing concurrency | Ayende @ Rahien
• Mining Twitter Data with Python Part 5: Data Visualisation Basics | KD Nuggets

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Security Enforcement of Microservices | DZone Integration
• How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint | Google Project Zero
• Lossless compression with Brotli in Rust for a bit of Pied Piper on the backend | Dropbox Tech Blog

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions | AWS Blog
• Worldwide Delivery of Amazon SNS Messages via SMS | AWS Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – June 29, 2016 (#2278) | Morning Dew