We have a lot of interesting posts today. First, on the morning paper, we learn about identifying and quantifying architectural debt. This is one of many papers currently being highlighted that deal with some research around software engineering and code quality. At Salesforce + Open Source, we get the release of Runway, a distributed systems… Read More Geek Reading June 15, 2016 #1128
Starting our day, we have a post from Johanna Rothman about telling your problems to the duck. If you have not heard about this before, it is an interesting “problem solving” technique where you talk to a rubber duck. Hearing yourself talk about a problem can help you understand it better and potentially come up… Read More Geek Reading June 7, 2016 #1122
Leading our day, we have a wonderful acquisition. Medium acquired Superfeedr. This is very cool because Superfeedr was really started as a geeky tool for blogs but became a larger player. I am hoping that Medium allows it to flourish. Proper Fixation has an excellent post about avoiding “easy” things. Basically, if you want your… Read More Geek Reading June 6, 2016 #1121
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
Today is all about Google. They dropped a ton of news at I/O. First, Firebase is becoming a unified app platform. Android is getting Instant Apps. There is a bunch of new information for Android including more details of the N-release and Android Studio. Firebase Analytics are being added to Google Analytics. This would normally… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2016 #1109
Google leads our day with their release of Spaces. Many news sites are calling it a messaging platform, but it feels more like a collaboration platform almost like a wiki. Overall, it seems like an odd thing for Google to be working on unless they are really focused on the business use cases. Michael Bromley… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108
Twitter starts our day with a post about Manhattan software deployments. Machine Learning Mastery has yet another introductory post, this one about Python deep learning with Keras. Small Dropbear shows us what some of the Linux memory statistics really mean. This is a great explanation of some of these statistics. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2016 #1103
Today we have a mixed bag of articles. On DZone Agile, we get a good post on how to describe accomplishments on a resume. If you have ever been on the hiring side of an interview, you know that geeks have a terribly difficult time with this. At Machine Learning Mastery, we have an excellent… Read More Geek Reading April 11, 2016 #1081
There are a lot of good articles to read today. First, on High Scalability we get a post about an async Tarantool queue. It is interesting reading if you are into that kind of thing. Also on the performance front, we get an article on Java Code Geeks about scalable I/O and whether to use… Read More Geek Reading March 7, 2016 #1057
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