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
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
We have a lot of interesting posts today. First, on the morning paper, we learn about identifying and quantifying architectural debt. This is one of many papers currently being highlighted that deal with some research around software engineering and code quality. At Salesforce + Open Source, we get the release of Runway, a distributed systems… Read More Geek Reading June 15, 2016 #1128
Starting our day, we have a post from Johanna Rothman about telling your problems to the duck. If you have not heard about this before, it is an interesting “problem solving” technique where you talk to a rubber duck. Hearing yourself talk about a problem can help you understand it better and potentially come up… Read More Geek Reading June 7, 2016 #1122
Google leads the day with the announcement of node pools for Google Container Engine. On the Jenkins blog, they show Blue Ocean, a new user experience that will be available soon. Ayende @ Rahien talks about server side replication in his series about RavenDB v4.0. There are also, several good development articles, so make sure… Read More Geek Reading May 30, 2016 #1116
Today we start with some local flavor. Ebay Enterprise, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, merges with Innotrac to become Radial. Like many local software developers, I also spent part of my career at what used to be GSI Commerce. Google Research tells us about how they are helping webmasters re-secure their websites. The strangest… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088
It was a slow news weekend, but there are plenty of good development posts. First, On DZone we get the logic behind various types of transactions. Unless you are building a very simple administrative application, like a CRUD app, then you are probably dealing with difference types of transactions. Confluent announced the availability of Kafka… Read More Geek Reading February 22, 2016 #1047
Leading the day is an interesting look at the problems at GitHub as reported bu Business Insider. Much like any company trying to grow their revenue from a small company, they start to have an identity crisis and some of the early employees depart. Overall, it is not surprising but I am curious to see… Read More Geek Reading February 8, 2016 #1037
We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
VentureBeat starts our day reporting on the new $5 Raspberry Pi Zero. I did not think the Pi could get smaller or cheaper, but I was wrong. Smashing Magazine has a good post on lessons learned from a startup. More importantly, it shows what you need to pay attention to and not just the possible… Read More Geek Reading November 27, 2015
