Leading our day is a post on Both Sides of the Table, where they explain how misunderstanding startup metrics can cost you your business. Google’s Big Data blog gives us an introduction to Capacitor, the new BigQuery columnar storage format. High Scalability has an excellent post on the “platform advantage” and its relation to Google,… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2016 #1094
Reporting from The Next Web leads our day. The Tesla Model X is having some software problems and locking some owners out of their cars. This is probably one of the biggest concerns about software-pervasive cars, bugs. A “highlight” of our childhood is getting modern 🙂 As reported by TechCrunch, Highlights magazine reinvents itself as… Read More Geek Reading April 22, 2016 #1090
Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are… Read More Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086
We have some interesting stories for today. First, from The National Museum of Computing, we get the “Lorenz” story. It is a bit of historical computing that many people tend to forget about. At Overtone Recipes, we get a way to recreate Daft Punk’s Da Funk. I know it is a bit different than my… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2016 #1080
It was a fairly light weekend, but there is still plenty of good reading. At Twitter, they talk about observability, where they give us a technical overview of what they are doing. On Keeping It Classless, we get an interesting post about test-driven network automation. It is odd to see test automation in the world of… Read More Geek Reading March 21, 2016 #1067
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
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
It is Tuesday, so of course that means we get a pile of new security articles 🙂 On Krebs on Security, they talk about a recent phish at Seagate where it exposed all employee W-2’s. That is a huge problem given the amount of personal information available. Softpedia reports on the Custom Content Type Manager… Read More Geek Reading March 8, 2016 #1058
Today we go a little old school. First, at the ACM we get a story from Andrew Tanenbaum about lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX. If you are an older computer science major, you probably remember taking an Operating Systems class and trying to change parts of MINIX. On <re/code>, we have reporting on… Read More Geek Reading March 2, 2016 #1054
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