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
Microsoft leadsĀ our news today. TechCrunch reports on Microsoft bringing the bash shell to Windows 10. When I first heard this, I was beyond excited. A good unix shell on Windows has been needed for decades. Kubernetes has an ongoing series of posts about their new release, with today’s installment being about new multi-zone clusters. I… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2016 #1074
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
Another security issue leads our day. Arstechnica reports on a bunch of stolen certificates that allow hackers to bypass code-signing. It is an interesting story and makes you wonder about the real benefits of code-signing. On Amazon Big Data we get a great post about analyzing time series data in real-time with AWS Lambda, Amazon… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2016 #1066
I haven’t highlighted security issues in the past few days, so clearly we were due. First, Troy Hunt has an interesting post on how your personal data is passed around when using “free” services. Mattias Geniar reports on a few remote code execution issues for Git. Definitely read the post to get into the details.… Read More Geek Reading March 17, 2016 #1065
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
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 focus on some business. First, Mike McCue talks about the most powerful lesson he ever learned in business. The “first principles” concept is not something new, but it forces you to think about facts. William R Fry gives us an excellent guide to the Philly tech scene. This is important because I live… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049
Leading our day is Atlassian with their post on fighting the perfect product. I fight this battle every day and I know many other product development teams do as well. On High Scalability, we get an introduction to the architecture at Egnyte, where they have a multi-petabyte distributed system. At Java Code Geeks, we get… Read More Geek Reading February 17, 2016 #1044
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
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