GitHub Engineering starts our day with their post about mitigating a SYN flood. Overall, it is an interesting post and a cool look at how some companies deal with this type of attack. The Amazon AWS blog talks about scaling vulnerability testing with Amazon Inspector. Inspector is a new tool, so any details on how to use it are definitely helpful. CodingVC gives us a different spin on technical diligence for startups. Basically, he figures that everything is going to change and evolve, so the key is really whether the team and business can scale.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• The Case for Lean: Capturing Business Work | DZone Agile
• The Grad’s Dilemma: How I Found a Software Job that Fits | Atomic Object
• How Much to Develop an App? | DZone Agile
• Why Startup Technical Diligence is a Waste of Time | Coding VC
• Pairing, Swarming, and Mobbing | Johanna Rothman

Design and Development

• The Promise of REST, the Problem of Collective Engineering, and the (Un)reliability of the Cloud | DZone Integration
• How to Use Spring Social With Facebook: Part 2 | DZone Java
• Test-Driven Development With Mockito | Java Code Geeks
• Rake 201 | envatotuts+
• Building A Cross-Platform WebGL Game With Babylon.js | Smashing Magazine
• Why Amazon Retail Went to a Service Oriented Architecture | High Scalability
• Securing client-side public API access with OAuth 2 and Symfony | Codevate
• Building a Rails Notification Queue 2: The Notification Class | Ascent

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Fast transaction log: Windows | Ayende @ Rahien
• What Distributed System means | GianArb

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication | MIT News
• An Introduction to Model-Based Machine Learning | Data Science Blog by Domino
• Bayesian Machine Learning, Explained | KD Nuggets
• 8 Inspirational Applications of Deep Learning | Machine Learning Mastery

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Dockerizing Elixir and Phoenix Applications | semaphore

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• SYN Flood Mitigation with synsanity | GitHub Engineering
• Scale Your Security Vulnerability Testing with Amazon Inspector | AWS Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 13, 2016 (#2286) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1705 | A Fresh Cup