There were a lot of development articles over the weekend. On Building Real Software, they talk about application security and the gaps between builders and defenders. Edmund Kirwan shows us a structural package analysis of Apache Lucene over the years. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups,… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2015
Today we focus on startups and your career. First, on Both Sides of the Table they discuss the best way to explain your startup. Does your startup have a story or a good narrative? Next, Seth Godin talks about continuous learning in your field. Do you know who you should be following or reading in… Read More Geek Reading May 22, 2015
Leading today’s stories is a Logjam. The Next Web reports on a new bug found in SSL called Logjam. Yahoo Labs open-sourced EGADS, a scalable, configurable and novel anomaly detection system. On High Scalability, we have a very good article about scaling demanding queries, high velocity data modifications and fast indexing. There is a lot… Read More Geek Reading May 21, 2015
To start our day, Amazon announced the EC2 Spot Fleet API which allows you to manage spot instances through a simple API. A very cool addition to their offering. First Round Review follows with the difficulty in building engineering team, based on the perspective of Tiho Bajic, CTO of Nitro. Ayende @ Rahien presents a… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2015
Leading off today, Google Cloud Platform lowers their prices and announces the availability of preemptible VMs. These are short-term, volatile instances that are useful in large compute clusters because they can be taken down at any moment. It is an interesting idea and something to watch long term. Amazon AWS did not announce a similar… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2015
There is lots of good reading from this weekend. First, Venture Beat reports on the Starbucks mobile hack. It is an interesting read to see how security hacks are changing. On StackShare, 500px shares how they serve over 500TB of photos. Lastly, Rust v1.0 is officially released. So, you can now play with Rust and… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2015
Leading off today we have Amazon AWS announcing Educate, their program for students and educators. This is just a really cool idea and a great way to get buy-in early. Another great read is about the bunny theory of code at NCZOnline. The moral of the story is if you commit some code, you should… Read More Geek Reading May 15, 2015
Today is security day. The Chromium blog starts our day by announcing the requirement of extensions being in the Chrome Store for all dev channels. This really limits the number of attack vectors people have with Chrome. Venture Beat reports on the VENOM vulnerability, which at least Amazon AWS states they are protected from. This… Read More Geek Reading May 14, 2015
I rarely talk about funding or acquisitions, but today is one of those days. First, TechCrunch reports on Verizon buying AOL for $4.4 billion. That is one big number and shows that Verizon wants to become a full media company. The second item comes from a MarkLogic press release where they announce $102 million in… Read More Geek Reading May 13, 2015
Leading off today is another great article about startups, Dynamic Founder Agreements, on Javalobby. Who owns what, and what happens when they leave are issues that startups need to deal with at some point and this article has some really good advice. At .py in the sky, we see that Python 3 is finally gaining… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2015
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