Monthly Archives: March 2016

Links for March 21st through March 31st

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Vinny

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• A Gentle Introduction to Application Security – Henceforth, I propose a new model for thinking of security weaknesses, which is more approachable for application security neophytes and lends more towards developing a mentality that nurtures the development of layered defenses.
• The Basics of Web Application Security #security #webapp – Modern web development has many challenges, and of those security is both very important and often under-emphasized. While such techniques as threat analysis are increasingly recognized as essential to any serious development, there are also some basic practices which every developer can and should be doing as a matter of course.
• Microsoft Cognitive Services let you build apps with powerful algorithms using just a few lines of code #machinelearning – Microsoft Cognitive Services let you build apps with powerful algorithms using just a few lines of code. They work across devices and platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows, keep improving, and are easy to set up.
• Clippy’s Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots – CEO Satya Nadella bets big on artificial intelligence that will be fast, smart, friendly, helpful, and (fingers crossed) not at all racist.
• React Native for OS X – Build OS X desktop apps using React Native. – Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.
• Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin’s @dgreller – Bitcoin rival Ethereum climbed 1000% in 3 months, crossing $1B in value at times, and attracts interest from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and IBM
• Google builds list of untrusted digital certificate suppliers #security – Hoping to improve trust on the web, Google has a new tool to keep track of untrusted Certificate Authorities.
• Openhtmltopdf: An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With RTL text support. – An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With RTL text support.
• ​Red Hat becomes first $2b open-source company – Red Hat was the first billion dollar Linux company, now it's the first $2 billion open-source company. Not bad eh?
• Swift 2.2 Released! – Swift 2.2 is a minor language release that is mostly source-compatible with Swift 2.1. It contains the following language changes that went through the Swift’s evolution process:
• Apache PDFBox, a Java PDF Library releases v2.0 after 3 years of development – The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes seve

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Links for March 9th through March 19th

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Vinny

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• Criollo – web application framework for OS X and iOS – Criollo can easily be embedded as a web-server inside your OS X or iOS app, should you be in need of such a feature, however it was designed to create standalone, long-lived daemon style apps.
• Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department | Stitch Fix Technology – Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department
• FingerIO – Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking – FingerIO is a novel fine-grained finger tracking solution that transforms any space around off-the-shelf smartphones or smartwatches into an interactive surfaces.
• Avoiding the pointless blockchain project – How to determine if you’ve found a real blockchain use case – before you embark on that shiny blockchain project, you need to have a very clear idea of why you are using a blockchain. There are a bunch of conditions that need to be fulfilled. And if they’re not, you should go back to the drawing board. Maybe you can
• Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? by @StevenLevy – The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security.
• Alchemy is a framework for creating highly available systems that are built from micro-services – Alchemy is a framework for creating highly available systems that are built from micro-services. Alchemy includes service discovery, easy deployment, smart load balancing, and is also designed to be polyglot, so you can use the best languages to solve all
• Using Amazon SQS with Spring Boot and Spring JMS – In this post, we will show you how to implement the messaging of an application that creates thumbnails. In this use case, a client system will send a request message through Amazon SQS that includes an Amazon S3 location for the image. The application wil
• 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services – With over a million active customers per month, who in turn may serve hundreds of millions of their own customers, there is no lack of opportunities to gain more experience and perhaps no better environment for continuous improvement in the way we serve ou
• Microsoft submits new open-sourced networking components to Open Compute Project – Microsoft is proposing to contribute Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) — networking components for building datacenter devices like switches — to the Open Compute Project.
• Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in IT infrastructure – We’re excited to announce that we're joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure. More specifically, Google will contribute a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to

Links for February 15th through March 9th

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Vinny

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• Spinnaker is an multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software with high velocity & confidence. – Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
• How We Build Code at Netflix #devops #ci – In this post, we describe the tools and techniques used to go from source code to a deployed service serving movies and TV shows to more than 75 million global Netflix members.
• The Demographics of Innovation in the United States | ITIF – A groundbreaking ITIF survey shows why the country needs to broaden and deepen its pool of potential innovators with better STEM immigration and education policies.
• rr: lightweight recording & deterministic debugging – rr aspires to be your primary debugging tool, replacing — well, enhancing — gdb. You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time.
• Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Pt. 1 – We may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could mark not only an evolutionary breakthrough, but a potential threat to our survival as a species
• Serverless Framework – Part 1: Up and running – I was in the middle of a blog post about the JAWS framework and before I had finished it changed its name to the Serverless framework. It is a very clever way to build apps without worrying about provisioning server or whether it will scale. This is becaus
• The Robots Are Coming for Wall Street – Hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced
  with software. What office jobs are next?
• Google launches Cloud Dataproc service out of beta #hadoop – Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open source big data software — is now generally available
• linkerd: Twitter-style Operability for Microservices – linkerd is our open-source RPC proxy for microservices. It's built directly on Finagle, and is designed to give you all the operational benefits of Twitter's microservice architecture—those many lessons learned over many years—in a way that's self-containe
• Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android – Kotlin is a pragmatic programming language for JVM and Android that combines OO and functional features and is focused on interoperability, safety, clarity and tooling support.