Monthly Archives: December 2015

Links for December 10th through December 16th

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Vinny

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• SymphonyOS – A lightweight Linux distribution featuring the innovative Mezzo Desktop Environment. – A lightweight Linux distribution featuring the innovative Mezzo Desktop Environment.
• Apollo – A library for writing services that focuses on composability and simplicity, with high performance using modern java idioms & features – Apollo is a set of Java libraries that we use at Spotify when writing micro-services. Apollo includes features such as an HTTP server and a URI routing system, making it trivial to implement RESTful services.
• Digital Currency CEO Barry Silbert on how the rise of Bitcoin is impacting financial services – Digital Currency CEO Barry Silbert on how the rise of Bitcoin is impacting financial services
• The Bash Guide – an introduction to basic and advanced concepts of the bash shell. – This guide is an introduction to basic and advanced concepts of the bash shell. It teaches both newcomers and long-time users the best, safest and most robust ways of writing powerful bash scripts as well as making efficient and speedy interactive use of the shell
• The Twelve Days of Lambda – Here are some ideas to use your end of year or holiday downtime to explore serverless cloud computing with AWS Lambda instead. Each one comes with a blueprint to help you get started quickly. Enjoy!
• Maven vs Gradle – One Year Later – Hear from one developer who chose Gradle, but still claims it's not an easy decision between the two
• The next generation of managed MySQL offerings on Cloud SQL – Cloud SQL Second Generation makes what customers love about Cloud SQL First Generation faster and more scalable, at a better price per performance.
• Red Hat pursues Java-Node.js connection #nodejs #java – Red Hat envisions a world in which the two environments co-exist, and the company wants to drive the integration
• SnapKit – an Auto Layout DSL for iOS and OSX – SnapKit is a DSL to make Auto Layout easy on both iOS and OS X.
• Top 10 iOS Swift libraries every iOS developer should know about – To make the transition easier for you and save you the time you would spend writing certain components for your app, here are 10 libraries that we think every iOS developer should know about!

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Links for November 30th through December 8th

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Vinny

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• Introduction to Open Source Swift on Linux – In this tutorial, you’ll set up a Linux environment on your Mac, install Swift, and compile and run some basic Swift examples on Linux. Then you’ll take stock of the new bits offered by Apple, and finish off with a look into into the misty crystal ball of time, and guess what this all means for the future.
• iOS Animations with Auto Layout by @icanzilb – In this presentation from GOTO Conference CPH 2015, Marin shows how to create animations in UIKit with Swift that work with Auto Layout UIs. He looks into using existing constraints in animations, as well as replacing those constraints to create better ani
• structor – User interface builder for React – Structor is a visual development environment for node.js Web applications with React UI.
• 4 reasons why microservices resonate – Microservices are the first post-DevOps revolution architecture. – Microservices are the first post-DevOps revolution architecture.
• Sinatra-like DSL for developing web apps in Swift – Sinatra-like DSL for developing web apps in Swift
• Android Development with Kotlin – Using Kotlin for Android development has grown in popularity over the last year. Even to those who are not currently using it, the value proposition of the language immediately resonates. There already are a lot of introductory talks to the language and it
• SPF – A lightweight JS framework for fast navigation and page updates from YouTube – Using progressive enhancement and HTML5, SPF integrates with your site to enable a faster, more fluid user experience by updating just the sections of the page that change during navigation, not the whole page. SPF provides a response format for sending document fragments, a robust system for script and style management, an in-memory cache, on-the-fly processing, and more.
• Netflix at Velocity 2015: Linux Performance Tools – In this tutorial I summarize traditional and advanced performance tools, including: top, ps, vmstat, iostat, mpstat, free, strace, tcpdump, netstat, nicstat, pidstat, swapon, lsof, sar, ss, iptraf, iotop, slaptop, pcstat, tiptop, rdmsr, lmbench, fio, pchar, perf_events, ftrace, SystemTap, ktap, sysdig, and eBPF; and reference many more. I also include updated tools diagrams for observability, sar, benchmarking, and tuning (including the image above).
• Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds – In this post, the Netflix Performance Engineering team will show you the first 60 seconds of an optimized performance investigation at the command line, using standard Linux tools you should have available.
• Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service | ZDNet – Microsoft is opening up a limited preview of its PowerApps service for creating, sharing and managing mobile business apps on iOS, Android and Windows devices.