Amazon starts our day again, with two new announcements. First, the Elastic File System is now “production ready” in three regions. Also, SNS Messages can now deliver SMS messages worldwide. Thankfully, Twilio was able to have their IPO just before this news, otherwise that could have been a much different outcome. At Ayende @ Rahien… Read More Geek Reading June 30, 2016 #1139
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Starting our day, the Google Big Data blog talks about new integration of BigQuery with Google Drive. Google Cloud Platform gives us some goodies when they talk about Kubernetes and container portability. WordPress releases 4.5.2, a minor but important security release. I know that doesn’t sound like big news, but when security fixes are made… Read More Geek Reading May 10, 2016 #1102
Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
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
Leading our day, Mark Reinhold gives us a long overview of the state of the module system in Java 9. MIT News reports on a new system that loads pages 34 percent faster. It will be interesting to see how this gets implemented in the real world, but they are promising results. UC San Diego… Read More Geek Reading March 11, 2016 #1061
Tomasz Tunguz starts our week with a post about organizational design in startups. Most companies will evolve over time, so there is some good information in this post. At Groove, they talk about how your best employees will quit and what you can do about it. Typically, your very good employees are constantly bombarded with… Read More Geek Reading December 14, 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
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