Yesterday was buy a company day! First, Atlassian announced their acquisition of StatusPage. This is yet another step in the DevOps and monitoring direction for Atlassian. Amazon acquired Cloud9, which gives them a development environment in the cloud. Basically, Amazon does not want to give you a reason to not use their services. In the… Read More Geek Reading July 15, 2016 #1149
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
If you only read this tech blog, then you might not have heard about the recent issues with Ethereum and the DAO. The Ethereum Blog posted about a DAO vulnerability. It ends up that the vulnerability was used to start draining ether, which led to a ton of posts about this. At Hacking, Distributed, they… Read More Geek Reading June 21, 2016 #1132
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 are some interesting articles to share today. First, Mozilla announces its new Test Pilot program, where you get to help build the future of Firefox. Google Cloud Platform announces the availability of StackDriver Trace for Google App Engine. Slack introduced “Sign in with Slack”, their new social identity offering. I am not entirely sure… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2016 #1104
Leading our day is a post on Both Sides of the Table, where they explain how misunderstanding startup metrics can cost you your business. Google’s Big Data blog gives us an introduction to Capacitor, the new BigQuery columnar storage format. High Scalability has an excellent post on the “platform advantage” and its relation to Google,… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2016 #1094
There were plenty of interesting articles yesterday. First, The Next Web reports on a car that has no gears and runs on hydrogen. Granted, the car has a top speed of 60 mph, but it is an interesting development regardless. Seth Godin gives us an excellent “manifesto” for small teams. Even if you have a… Read More Geek Reading February 19, 2016 #1046
There was not much news yesterday, but there were plenty of good articles. First, at Cambridge Coding we have a presentation on a “gentle and structured” introduction to machine learning. I like these types of presentations because people unfamiliar with the field can get a high level overview of what is going on and it… Read More Geek Reading February 16, 2016 #1043
It was a fairly slow news day, but there are still some good articles to read. At Atomic Object, they talk about using the “penny game” to show why your team is falling behind. Wolfram has announced their new programming lab. This could be a great way for people to learn something new. On Pyevolve,… Read More Geek Reading January 21, 2016
Job Tips For Geeks starts our day with some excellent advice on learning new technologies, try to teach something in order to learn it. Kim Schmidt gives us a very long overview of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. High Scalability talks about a recent paper regarding coordination avoidance in distributed databases. This is… Read More Geek Reading November 3, 2015
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