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
Twitter starts our day with a post about Manhattan software deployments. Machine Learning Mastery has yet another introductory post, this one about Python deep learning with Keras. Small Dropbear shows us what some of the Linux memory statistics really mean. This is a great explanation of some of these statistics. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2016 #1103
Starting our week, we get an announcement from CloudFlare. They now have support for WebSockets for all of their customers, including those on the free plan. This is cool because you get a major provider supporting the technology, and it also shows that WebSockets are really gaining adoption. Amazon’s Big Data blog talks about integrating… Read More Geek Reading May 9, 2016 #1101
Leading the day we have another security issue, this time with the ImageMagick library. Some details can be found at the ImageTragick site. LuanchDarkly gives us an interesting post on feature flags mitigating risk in database migration. At Requests for Startups, we get getting started guide for deep learning. At Count Bayesie, we get an… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2016 #1099
To start our day we have a post from Machine Learning Mastery about the Python ecosystem for machine learning. Josh Juneau talks about the state of Java EE8 and the question of Oracle’s leadership of various JSRs. This has become a common topic lately, so it is definitely something we need to keep watch on.… Read More Geek Reading May 3, 2016 #1097
Some security related items start our week. As reported by detectify, some Slack bots are leaking their tokens. Sometimes simple ways to integrate into applications allow developers to get a little lazy. Google Cloud Platform announced some new ISO security and privacy certifications. This is more important for larger enterprises that care about that type… Read More Geek Reading May 2, 2016 #1096
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
Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are… Read More Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086
Google Research starts us off with the announcement of a distributed version of TensorFlow. Neo4j follows with two interesting posts. First, they analyze the Panama papers. This gives us some fascinating visualizations of the groups involved. Second they use a specialized ETL for their graph DB to analyze citizen data. This is more interesting because they… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2016 #1085
Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
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