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
Amazon AWS starts our day with the availability of their Elastic Network Adapter. This is more infrastructure from Amazon in their quest to have you own no IT hardware. On Ayende @ Rahien, we have another database internals post, this one about managing records. This post really starts to show how complex database systems are… Read More Geek Reading June 29, 2016 #1138
There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
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
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
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading December 9, 2015
The Geekess leads the day again, but this time it is a very positive post about what makes a good community. More than anything, I think the post was only written because of the much larger number of positive comments on her last post. On Rants on Machine Learning, they show us what to do… Read More Geek Reading October 7, 2015
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