It was a fairly light weekend, but there is still plenty of good reading. At Twitter, they talk about observability, where they give us a technical overview of what they are doing. On Keeping It Classless, we get an interesting post about test-driven network automation. It is odd to see test automation in the world of… Read More Geek Reading March 21, 2016 #1067
Another security issue leads our day. Arstechnica reports on a bunch of stolen certificates that allow hackers to bypass code-signing. It is an interesting story and makes you wonder about the real benefits of code-signing. On Amazon Big Data we get a great post about analyzing time series data in real-time with AWS Lambda, Amazon… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2016 #1066
Today we focus on some business. First, Mike McCue talks about the most powerful lesson he ever learned in business. The “first principles” concept is not something new, but it forces you to think about facts. William R Fry gives us an excellent guide to the Philly tech scene. This is important because I live… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049
Leading today is more cool news about Pluto. Reuters reports on how Pluto has big mountains and other interesting features. Generally, the whole “real, close pictures of Pluto” thing is fascinating. Microsoft talks about support for Web Components in their Edge browser. The gist of the story is, we will support some things now and… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2015
Wired starts our day with an interesting story about how our satellites can be used for mapping earthquakes. Following on that we have a few good scalability articles. On ferd.ca, we get to read about lessons learned working on large-scale server software. This article also gives us the best quote on distributed systems that I… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2015
Backchannel starts our day with a discussion of the three phases of consumer products. If you are a startup in the consumer space, you should definitely read it. For the second day in a row Valeria Maltoni, writing at Conversation Agent, gives us some excellent content. Today she talks about how access has more value… Read More Geek Reading March 27, 2015
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