This is a special Sunday edition of Geek Reading for one simple reason. I am taking a break from posting Geek Reading for a while. Life and work are always very busy and I am hoping to get back to writing again. Maybe in the near future I will post an original article or opinion,… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2016 #1150
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
It was another slow news day, but there is always something interesting to read. First, High Scalability gives us an interesting post on Machine Learning Driven Programming. This is really a post on the directions that companies like Google and Facebook are going, with deep learning replacing whole subsystems. At Ayende @ Rahien, we get… Read More Geek Reading July 7, 2016 #1143
Today we have some excellent articles, so make sure you read more than what I highlight. First, Twitter open sourced Heron, its’ distributed stream computation system. I am not sure how many companies have a need for this kind of thing, but it is good to see it available. On the Intent HQ Engineering blog,… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2016 #1115
Today we start with an excellent post from Rex Software about 3 women who radically changed the course of technology. It is a nice profile of a few of the women that formed the core of computer science that we have today. On the Android Developers Blog, they tell us how to develop for direct… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2016 #1095
There was not a lot of news, but there are plenty of good articles to read. First, we get a few security articles about the same-site cookie attribute. Both chloe and Sjoerd Langkemper talk about how same-site can prevent CSRF. On Flowing Data, we get a visualization that shows how much better Stephen Curry was than… Read More Geek Reading April 19, 2016 #1087
Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives… Read More Geek Reading April 5, 2016 #1077
Citusdata starts our day with their announcement about “unforking” from PostgreSQL. They have been doing some very interesting work, so getting their technology back into the fold will be a good thing in the long term. On the Google Developers Blog, they talk about the Google API Console. This is just one step closer to… Read More Geek Reading March 29, 2016 #1072
We start our week with a post from All Things Distributed about 10 lessons from 10 years of Amazon web services. It is an interesting look at AWS from someone who has been there from the beginning. On Java Code Geeks, they give us an introduction to use Apache Spark Streaming with Scala. Another good… Read More Geek Reading March 14, 2016 #1062
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
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