Seth Godin leads our day with an excellent article on control and resilience. My other favorites for today are in the development section. The first comes from Steven Lott, and he wonders about people that wait to write “serious code”. On benjaminFRY, he talks about software engineers being lazy, but the discussion is really around… Read More Geek Reading June 10, 2015
Fairly slow news day, so today we have an odd selection of articles. Every job has its issues, but we tend to overlook some due to salary or benefits. DaedTech takes an interesting look at this in his post, “Career Advancement for the Low Price of Your Soul”. Martin Fowler talks about how microservices may… Read More Geek Reading June 4, 2015
Recode leads our day with some reporting on Mary Meeker’s internet trends for 2015. The slides are a must read, as they are every year. Google adds app deep linking using goo.gl addresses. This should be a nice boon for mobile developers. In security and operations, Banyan talks about the problem of vulnerabilities in many… Read More Geek Reading May 28, 2015
There were a lot of development articles over the weekend. On Building Real Software, they talk about application security and the gaps between builders and defenders. Edmund Kirwan shows us a structural package analysis of Apache Lucene over the years. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups,… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2015
To start our day, Amazon announced the EC2 Spot Fleet API which allows you to manage spot instances through a simple API. A very cool addition to their offering. First Round Review follows with the difficulty in building engineering team, based on the perspective of Tiho Bajic, CTO of Nitro. Ayende @ Rahien presents a… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2015
Leading off today we have Amazon AWS announcing Educate, their program for students and educators. This is just a really cool idea and a great way to get buy-in early. Another great read is about the bunny theory of code at NCZOnline. The moral of the story is if you commit some code, you should… Read More Geek Reading May 15, 2015
Today is security day. The Chromium blog starts our day by announcing the requirement of extensions being in the Chrome Store for all dev channels. This really limits the number of attack vectors people have with Chrome. Venture Beat reports on the VENOM vulnerability, which at least Amazon AWS states they are protected from. This… Read More Geek Reading May 14, 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
More analysis on some research leads today’s articles. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the Adobe report and how culture is driving trends. First Round Review discusses what they wish they knew when building data products. In the *aaS section, Amazon announced multiple things, including a machine learning product and elastic file system. As… Read More Geek Reading April 10, 2015
Amazon announced new “dense-storage” instances for EC2. This is not huge news but interesting in terms of trends. For the longest time, the big difference has been CPU or memory. Google Online Security talks about getting rid of unwanted ad injectors. These are terribly annoying and can really make a browser unusable in some cases.… Read More Geek Reading April 1, 2015
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