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
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
Today we start with some local flavor. Ebay Enterprise, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, merges with Innotrac to become Radial. Like many local software developers, I also spent part of my career at what used to be GSI Commerce. Google Research tells us about how they are helping webmasters re-secure their websites. The strangest… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088
There are a lot of good articles to read today. First, on High Scalability we get a post about an async Tarantool queue. It is interesting reading if you are into that kind of thing. Also on the performance front, we get an article on Java Code Geeks about scalable I/O and whether to use… Read More Geek Reading March 7, 2016 #1057
Today, we start with a post from Brad Feld on Feld Thoughts. The story is actually an anonymous repost of one founder’s struggles with their startup. On All Things Distributed, we get a look “under the hood” of the EC2 Container Service. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of the Application Default Credentials feature, mainly… Read More Geek Reading July 21, 2015
Lots of good development articles today. First, Living social shows us how to work with responsive tables in pure CSS. James Long complains about catching exceptions and promises in JavaScript. Frank McSherry talks about differential dataflow in Rust. An excellent quote (paraphrased) from the opening keynote of the conference I am attending, “Software is not… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2015
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