- What you need to know about WatchKit #ios #watchkit #wearables – Apple was kind enough to publish a few informational guidelines and a 28-minute video in the public-facing area of their developer center.
- SQLite.swift – A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3 #swift – A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3. SQLite.swift provides compile-time confidence in SQL statement syntax and intent.
- Google Lovefield – A cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine built on top of #IndexedDB – Lovefield is a relational query engine built on top of IndexedDB. It provides SQL-like syntax and works cross-browser (currently supporting Chrome 37+, Firefox 31+, and IE 10+).
- Cyber-Attacks Force Firms to Prepare for the Worst | FTF News – As cyber-attacks increase, a PwC survey and an FTF OpRisk panel underscore the importance of budgeting and crafting an effective cyber-security strategy.
- Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr #scala #akka – Colossus is a new framework developed at Tumblr which addresses these challenges. It offers a lightweight, straightforward model for building high-performing microservices. Written in Scala and built on NIO and the Akka actor framework, Colossus has had a
- Nginx claims more top websites at Apache’s and Microsoft’s expense #nginx – Depending on who you ask, Nginx is either the second- or third-most widely used Web server. Among the most heavily trafficked sites, though, it's headed straight to the top.
- Haneke – A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images. – Haneke is a lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift. It's designed to be super-simple to use. Haneke provides a memory and LRU disk cache for UIImage, NSData, JSON, String or any other type that can be read or written as data.
- REST app built and deployed in five minutes or less – YouTube – In the linked screencast, I show how über easy Spring has made it to pick the parts for your app from http://start.spring.io, define your domain, and then export them as a hypermedia-driven RESTful service.
- CPU Flame Graphs #dtrace #linux – Profiling data can be thousands of lines long, and difficult to comprehend. Flame graphs are a visualization for sampled stack traces, which for CPU profile data allows hot code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately
- Amazon’s ability to invest in AWS: By the numbers $AMZN – AWS chief Andy Jassy was asked whether Amazon had the funds to compete with the cash piles of Microsoft and Google in the cloud wars. Here's a look at his answer and the numbers that back it up.
- The Critical Path Podcast: How Big is iCloud? – Apples Services business is growing by leaps and bounds. How much of that can be attributed to iCloud? Horace and Anders consider how big the iCloud business is for Apple, as well as Apples recent stock price rise in this “rolling show” on the way to the airport.
- FnordMetric – Create charts and dashboards from SQL – FnordMetric allows you to write SQL queries that return SVG charts rather than tables. Turning a query result into a chart is literally one line of code.