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
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
To start our day, Priceonomics has a story on the Guinness brewer who revolutionized statistics. There are a few interesting points here, the brewer is the source of “Student’s t” which is something I was always curious about. In our world of bigger data, statistics will become increasingly useful to more people. And you never… Read More Geek Reading December 15, 2015
Leading today we have a post on Psy-Q’s Braindump about how we need to save Mozilla in order to defend the free web. I am not sure if I agree with the premise that Chrome and its engine are taking over the web, especially given the size of Facebook and its ecosystem, but it is… Read More Geek Reading December 1, 2015
Microsoft starts our week with their open source release of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data. They really need to work on naming things, Google has TensorFlow and Microsoft has DMLT, it just does not sound exciting. On Made of Bugs, they talk about what MongoDB got right. This is an interesting post because… Read More Geek Reading November 16, 2015
There were a few interesting articles yesterday. First, The Next Web reports on another big Android security issue with MP3 files. Netflix announces Flux, an interesting look at your systems. Amazon AWS follows with two announcements, the CloudFormation Designer which should make CloudFormation much easier to use, and Elasticsearch Service, an AWS hosted elasticsearch instance.… Read More Geek Reading October 2, 2015
Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which… Read More Geek Reading July 16, 2015
During the discussions surrounding my post about web and scripting language job trends, a question was raised regarding a comment made about Ruby and Rails: Obviously, Ruby and Rails are tied together, but seeing the growth trends starting to separate is a good sign for Ruby as a standalone language. What I did not realize… Read More Do Frameworks Spur Adoption Of Programming Languages?
PLEASE REVIEW THE MORE RECENT VERSION FORÂ FEBRUARY 2011. At the beginning of this month, I compared the job trends for traditional programming languages like C++, Java and others. This post is one of the recurring programming job trends posts, where we look at web and scripting programming languages. Feel free to review the web programming… Read More Web & Scripting Programming Language Job Trends – August 2010
UPDATE: Please see a more current version of web and scripting languages for August 2010. At the beginning of this month, I compared the job trends for traditional programming languages like C++, Java and others. That was initially done because of TIOBE releasing their yearly language rankings. I also noticed that is was approximately 6… Read More Web 2.0 Programming Language Job Trends – February 2010
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