The Google Security Blog starts our day as they talk about experimenting with post-quantum cryptography. Most of us do not need to worry about the details of this, but just be glad that some very smart people are doing something. Ayende @ Rahien continues the database internals series with two more posts on the performance… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2016 #1144
It was another slow news day, but there is always something interesting to read. First, High Scalability gives us an interesting post on Machine Learning Driven Programming. This is really a post on the directions that companies like Google and Facebook are going, with deep learning replacing whole subsystems. At Ayende @ Rahien, we get… Read More Geek Reading July 7, 2016 #1143
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… Read More Geek Reading June 30, 2016 #1139
Starting our day we have Scobleizer writing again! Today we get an excellent post on spatial computing and what Apple and Tim Cook need to do. Ted Neward writes about the value of failure. In particular, he talks about what you can learn from failing over the years. Janelle Quibuyen gives us a great post… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2016 #1118
In an interesting twist, MySpace makes the news today. Motherboard reports on hackers claims about having 427 million MySpace passwords. There are some questions about the actual source of the data and when it was retrieved. Bill Jordan talks about the coming crisis in software development. His target is mostly on low quality applications built… Read More Geek Reading May 31, 2016 #1117
Today we start with an excellent post from Rex Software about 3 women who radically changed the course of technology. It is a nice profile of a few of the women that formed the core of computer science that we have today. On the Android Developers Blog, they tell us how to develop for direct… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2016 #1095
On Google Webmaster Central we get a nice feature from Google about deceptive download sites. Google continues to fight for a safer internet. Netflix shows us some really good ways to analyze performance using flame graphs. At KD Nuggets, they give us the “pocket guide” to data science. Obviously, data science is a lot bigger… Read More Geek Reading April 13, 2016 #1083
Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives… Read More Geek Reading April 5, 2016 #1077
Microsoft leads the day again with one of its last announcements from last week. SQL Server Developer Edition is now free. This could help get SQL Server into some more companies that are looking to support it but the cost was somewhat prohibitive. On KD Nuggets we get a list of 10 essential books for… Read More Geek Reading April 4, 2016 #1076
Leading the day we have GoDaddy and their announcement of the availability of their Cloud Servers and Applications. GoDaddy has been trying to clean up their image and get into more technical hosting, so this follows what I have seen in the recent past. I am not sure if it is a great idea to… Read More Geek Reading March 22, 2016 #1068
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