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… Read More Geek Reading July 14, 2016 #1148
Today we start with a post on AVC about concerns about specific employees. It is interesting to see how different people handle issues like this. On Flowing Data we get a really cool visualization of Kung Fu masters. The movements are converted into different particle and wave formations for very cool effects. Julia Evans talks… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2016 #1110
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
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday, so today highlight some different articles. First, KD Nuggets gives us two good lists to review. The first is a set of 9 must-have datasets for recommender systems. The other is a list of 21 must-know data science interview questions. Amazon RDS gets an update with shared… Read More Geek Reading February 12, 2016 #1041
The top news for the day comes from TechCrunch as they report on the Yahoo layoffs and financial report. This is a damn shame to watch as one of the original internet powers goes through its slow and painful demise. Google Online Security talks about protecting us from false downloads. Check Point gives us some… Read More Geek Reading February 4, 2016 #1035
Leading the day is yet another security issue, this one reported on Bits Please. They describe an Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions. Some of the security issues that I list tend to be more research based than potential threats, and this falls into the research category. That does not mean that you… Read More Geek Reading January 26, 2016
Now that vacation is over, it is time to get back to the daily links. First, we have Rands in Repose talking about employees leaving when they are happy. In particular, the focus is on when the employee let’s his “shields down” and goes for coffee or lunch with someone. Paul Graham has an interesting… Read More Geek Reading January 4, 2016
We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
Today, we have a great bunch of articles, but nothing that truly leads the day. You should focus your reading on the development, performance and security sections today. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups, Career and Process Surviving Software Heroes | DaedTech 4 essential how-tos for… Read More Geek Reading September 3, 2015
Two good startup articles lead today. First, Paul Graham talks about why it is safe for founders to be nice. It was good to see this because so many people think the founders need to be much tougher. On TechCrunch, we have the math behind SaaS startup valuations. This is a good read for people… Read More Geek Reading August 31, 2015
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