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
The Google Security Blog starts our day as they talk about experimenting with post-quantum cryptography. Most of us do not need to worry about the details of this, but just be glad that some very smart people are doing something. Ayende @ Rahien continues the database internals series with two more posts on the performance… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2016 #1144
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
Google Research leads the day with their post about Project Bloks. This is an interesting project but I am not sure how much impact this has on how people eventually learn programming. I am not a researcher in this area, so I am curious to see what the results are like. On the Android Developer… Read More Geek Reading June 28, 2016 #1137
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday, so today highlight some different articles. First, KD Nuggets gives us two good lists to review. The first is a set of 9 must-have datasets for recommender systems. The other is a list of 21 must-know data science interview questions. Amazon RDS gets an update with shared… Read More Geek Reading February 12, 2016 #1041
Seth Godin leads our day with his post on resilience. Resilience goes with hard work, and can really help your career in the long term. On Laughing Meme, we have an excellent post on technical debt. It takes a slightly different slant on technical debt and I don’t agree with everything, but it is worth… Read More Geek Reading January 14, 2016
We have a much shorter list of articles today as many people start taking time off for the holiday season. Over the next week, my posts may be inconsistent as well. The holidays always make for a lighter batch of articles, and the holidays also mean less time for me at the computer. On your… Read More Geek Reading December 24, 2015
There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 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
We start our day with an interesting look at software outsourcing from yegor256.com. Rackspace announces Carina, their container service powered by Docker Swarm. Another interesting post can be found on Java Code Geeks, where they talk about the process of choosing a data management solution. This one is interesting because it really does look like… Read More Geek Reading October 29, 2015
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