Links for February 7th through February 17th

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Vinny

Eliminate engineering bottlenecks in Deep Learning – Floyd Zero Setup Deep Learning – Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your DL models in the cloud. Start running your first project in < 30 sec! Floyd takes care of the grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem
Propeller – Front-end framework based on Material Design & Bootstrap – Propeller is a front-end responsive framework based on Google’s Material Design Standards & Bootstrap.
Take Containers From Development To Amazon ECS – In this tutorial, you will work through the full product development lifecycle for a web application.
JSONlite- A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store. – A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store.
Microservices and Docker at Scale #Containers – Microservies and Docker have become the peanut butter and jelly of modern app delivery. They allow organizations to work in a consistent, isolated runtime environment.
Ace – The High Performance Code Editor for the Web – Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript. It matches the features and performance of native editors such as Sublime, Vim and TextMate.
The 2016 Android Developer Toolbox – tools to write maintainable code and improve productivity – A demonstration of all the tools we use in 2016 to write maintainable code and improve our productivity
As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened #automation – Software that works on Wall Street is changing how business is done and who profits from it.

Links for January 19th through February 7th

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Vinny

Oxford Deep NLP 2017 course – An advanced course on natural language processing – Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing (github.com)
Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless as cloud-native applications. – This blog series will introduce you to building event-driven microservices as cloud-native applications.
Site Reliability Engineering – How Google to builds, deploys, monitors, & maintains some of the largest software systems in the world – Members of the SRE team explain how their engagement with the entire software lifecycle has enabled Google to build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world
The MVC, MVP, and MVVM Smackdown on Android – This post steps through the MVC, MVP, and MVVM patterns in order. At the beginning of each section we start with a common definition of the major components and responsibilities and then see how that applies to our game.
What Is Serverless Architecture, and How Does It Help My Business? #serverless #cloud – What Is Serverless Architecture, and
How Does It Help My Business?
reactNativeEverywhere: Starter kit to target multiple platforms with react-native’ APIs. – Starter kit to target multiple platforms with react-native' APIs.
Git Questions – How to Keep a Git Fork up to Date | IntelliJ IDEA Blog – This video shows an answer to this question which uses Git’s fetch, pull and push from within IntelliJ IDEA.
OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough – I’m going to describe how the keys are stored, and talk about converting between SSH keys and the original key formats.
Copycat – A fault-tolerant state machine replication framework built on the Raft consensus algorithm for Java 8 – Copycat is a fault-tolerant state machine replication framework. Built on the Raft consensus algorithm,
How to Create a Distributed Datastore in 10 Minutes – Copycat is a framework that sidesteps the standard paradigm of building applications dependent on external systems for data consistency by allowing you to embed your application logic, written as a state machine, directly into Copycat, where consistency and fault tolerance are taken care of for you

Links for November 22nd through January 11th

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Vinny

Mobile Website Speed Testing Tool from Google – Find out how well your site works across mobile and desktop devices. – Find out how well your site works across mobile and desktop devices.
Inferno – An extremely fast React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces. – An extremely fast React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces.
Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2 #ai #machinelearning – In this post we’ll talk about one of the most fundamental machine learning algorithms: the perceptron algorithm
Explore the differences between the two APIs – Java WatchService API vs Apache Commons IO Monitor | Baeldung – Explore the differences between the two APIs – Java WatchService API vs Apache Commons IO Monitor
Write a lightweight, cross-platform HTML5 desktop app with Kotlin – Medium – How even a developer like me can build stunning cross-platform desktop apps
Server-side Swift – With Perfect, you can write an entire project in one language #swift – Perfect is a web server and toolkit for developers using the the Swift programming language to build applications and other REST service
Building a Production Server Swift App: Lessons Learned – In this talk from Swift Language User Group, Jeff shares some of these with you so that your journey down this exciting new road will be easy
Server Side Swift with Vapor: Making a Web App #swiftlang #swift – Learn how to make a simple web app to list, create, and delete objects using Vapor, a popular server side swift framework.
Cyclotron – A web application for constructing dashboards. – Cyclotron is a platform for creating and hosting dashboards, independent of any single data source. It's a batteries-included solution for loading and visualizing data without programming. It's the CMS of dashboarding.
Katana is a modern Swift framework for writing iOS apps, strongly inspired by React & Redux – Katana is a modern Swift framework for writing iOS apps, strongly inspired by React and Redux, that gives structure to all the aspects of your app:

Links for November 1st through November 22nd

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Vinny

The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides – Build SaaS Features Enterprises Love – Created for people who build SaaS products (founders, product managers and engineering team leads) to change the enterprise software narrative from "how to SELL to the enterprise" to "how to BUILD for the enterprise".
A guide to Elasticsearch 5.0 and the ELK/Elastic Stack #elasticsearch – This article is a step-by-step guide to using Elasticsearch in combination with the rest of the ELK stack (now called Elastic Stack) to ship, parse, store, and analyze logs.
An Inside Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language – Several banks, vendors and a regulator discuss how they are using the Julia programming language to improve their big data analytics capabilities.
Machine Learning for Software Engineers – A complete daily plan for studying to become a #machinelearning engineer. – A complete daily plan for studying to become a machine learning engineer.
How Assistant Could End Up Eating Google’s Lunch – Google’s chatty virtual helper could make search more useful but disrupt the company’s business model.
Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing – Spark can capture a wide range of processing workloads that previously needed separate engines, including SQL, streaming, machine learning, and graph processing
Jasonette – Native App over HTTP – Jasonette lets you make an app with nothing but a single declarative recipe, loaded from a remote JSON.
Introduction to Deep Learning 2016 – Algorithmia – At the outer most ring you have artificial intelligence (using computers to reason). One layer inside of that is machine learning. With artificial neural networks and deep learning at the center.
[toread] NSURLSessionDelegate.swift – swift – CodeGist – func URLSession(session: NSURLSession, didReceiveChallenge challenge: NSURLAuthenticationChallenge, completionHandler: (NSURLSessionAuthChallengeDisposition,…
[toread] Becoming a CTO – If you ever find yourself writing a blog post on why PHP sucks, you are not ready. Being a CTO doesn’t mean you are the craziest hacker on the team. In…

Links for October 5th through October 27th

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Vinny

Look Ma, No Server: Corporate IT Expects ‘Serverless’ Computing to Trigger Big Changes #serverless – Next step of evolution toward cloud computing that began when physical servers largely were replaced with virtual technology or software
Server Side Swift with Vapor: Getting Started #swiftlang – Vapor is an open source server side Swift framework, that helps you write web apps and services using Swift 3. Learn how to get started with Vapor, and create your first server side Swift web app.
Amex for Developers – Connect to the American Express ecosystem with our suite of APIs – Connect to American Express services that power billions of transactions around the globe. Create, innovate and test new concepts. Get started today.
Awesome .NET – A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software – A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software
JUnit 5 Quick Start Guide and Advanced by dmitrij-drandarov – JUnit 5 introduced a lot of interesting, fast ways to create tests. Be it Test-Factories, Test-Extensions (that only have to be written once), Lambda-Support etc. It pushed the D.R.Y. principle a lot!
America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs – WSJ – The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.
Serverless Framework V.1 – Getting Started – YouTube – The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more. It's a command line tool, providing scaffolding, workflow automation and best practices for developing and deploying your serverless architecture. It's also completely extensible via plugins.
Amazon Web Services — a practical guide – This guide is by and for engineers who use AWS. It aims to be a useful, living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices. It arose from discussion and editing over beers by several engineers who have used AWS extensively
Why the Best Leaders Want Their Superstar Employees to Leave – When a stream of top performers go on to better things, it usually hastens the flow of more top talent into the company
Modern Swift Networking with Swish – Swish is a framework that is a wrapper around NSURLRequests. We’ll discuss how Swish helps you solve that problem by building requests and executing them. We’ll also discuss the protocols, how they work, and how to write tests for them.

Links for September 12th through September 30th

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Vinny

StyleKit is a micro-framework that enables you to style your iOS apps using a JSON file – StyleKit is a micro-framework written in Swift that enables you to style your iOS applications using a simple JSON file. Behind the scenes, StyleKit uses UIAppearance and some selector magic to apply the styles.
Android Studio Like a Boss – In this 360AnDev talk, we will take a detailed look at powerful but lesser known features. We will bend structural search and replace to our will, develop our own Live Templates, force Android Studio to interact with external tools and we will take a look at lesser known refactorings that you should be using
Introducing the Realm Mobile Platform: Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Database – Realm Mobile Platform, a new offering that integrates our fully open-source (see below!) client-side database for iOS and Android with new server-side technology providing realtime synchronization, conflict resolution, and reactive event handling
IT as a service: From build to consume – The cloud debate is over—businesses are now moving a material portion of IT workloads to cloud environments. The impact will be considerable, for consumers and vendors of technology alike.
Forget virtual assistants, Asteria wants to be your AI friend – This device plans to be your artificially intelligent wearable in the future
Atomist – Build Applications, Not Infrastructure. – Atomist helps you ship faster by accelerating development from project creation throughout your project lifecycle. Easily compose, generate, and customize projects for building consistent microservices.
New in Spring 5: Functional Web Framework – As mentioned yesterday in Juergen’s blog post, the second milestone of Spring Framework 5.0 introduced a new functional web framework. In this post, I will give more information about the framework.
Vapor – Web Framework for Swift that works on iOS, macOS & Linux – Vapor, a Web Framework for Swift that works on iOS, macOS, and Ubuntu; and all of the packages that Vapor offers.
Running TensorFlow with Jupyter Notebook on AWS – Google’s open source TensorFlow is one of the most promising machine learning frameworks nowadays
Using the CloudRail Node.js SDK with Electron – CloudRail – Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS by providing a runtime with native operating system APIs. It is a variant of Node.js focused on desktop applications instead of servers and can thus use Node.js libraries. Consequently it is not hard to use the CloudRail SI Node.js SDK in Electron based applications and we will discuss how it’s done.

Links for August 5th through September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Vinny

Machine Learning in a Year- From being a total #MachineLearning noob to start using it at work – Machine Learning in a Year- From being a total #MachineLearning noob to start using it at work
Why Kubernetes is winning the container war #docker #container #kubernetes – It's all about knowing how to build an open source community — plus experience running applications in Linux containers, which Google invented
Learn Node.js – A free interactive course for Node beginners – Through 13 exercises, follow The Node Beginner Book, with live-running code examples on HyperDev. By the end, you’ll know how to create a complete web app that allows users to view web pages and upload files.
Quill – Your powerful, rich text editor – Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API you can completely customize it to fulfill your needs.
JSON Web Token Authentication Tutorial: Example using Spring Boot – This article will guide you through implementation of JWT authentication by using Spring Boot.
Best Practices in App Security – This talk will cover the best practices in app security, demonstrate common mistakes and pitfalls and show what we’ve learned in our own experience in the mobile banking industry.
An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple #machinelearning #ai – An exclusive inside look at how artificial intelligence and machine learning work at Apple
React Server – Blazing fast page load and seamless transitions – React-server is a framework designed to make universal (neé isomorphic) React easier to write, providing standard answers for these questions and more. When you write your app for react-server, you concentrate on your React components, and react-server takes care of everything else that's needed to run and deploy re
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications @duhaas @rickomobilemke – A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.
SwiftBond is a binding framework that takes binding concepts to a whole new leve – Manually wiring up UI Code is tedious and requires a lot of work and usually does not behave the way you would like. But do we really need to do this manually every time? SwiftBond is a binding framework that takes binding concepts to a whole new level. It is simple, powerful, type-safe and multi-paradigm – just like Swift

Links for June 27th through August 1st

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Vinny

Make Slack, Facebook and Twitter Bots in Java in minutes. – BotKit is a java application (inspired by Howdyai's Botkit) to make Slack (Facebook and Twitter coming soon) bots in minutes. It provides all the boilerplate code needed so that you can make your bot live right away.
Bot thots – The world of conversational interfaces is very young. Here are some early questions that it’s working out. – The world of conversational interfaces is very young. Here are some early questions that it’s working out.
The solution to (nearly) everything: working less – Excessive work and pressure are status symbols. But overtime is deadly. If we worked less we’d make fewer errors, address inequality and have a better life
Dropwizard v1.0 is out -Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. – Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done.
Security Guide for Developers – A practical security guide for web developers – A practical security guide for web developers
Adding Push Notifications to your iOS app with Swift and Twilio Notify – Notify makes it easy to send cross-platform notifications to your users. From in-app push notifications on Android and iOS to SMS fallbacks, Notify takes care of the heavy lifting. Let’s build an iOS app that can receive and react to push notifications sent by the Apple Push Notific
An Introduction to Model-Based Machine Learning – This blog post follows my journey from traditional statistical modeling to Machine Learning (ML) and introduces a new paradigm of ML called Model-Based Machine Learning (Bishop, 2013). Model-Based Machine Learning may be of particular interest to statisticians, engineers, or related professionals looking to implement machine learning in their research or practice.
An E-Book of Cloud Best Practices for Your Enterprise – Over the last eight months, I’ve written a series of posts detailing several best practices for enterprises using (or considering) the cloud. These are practices I encourage any technology executive or professional looking to transform their business and/or career to consider.
Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin – From App Builders CH, Hajan Selmani brings his extensive experience as a Microsoft MVP to show the benefits of writing cross-platform apps with Xamarin. From the high level of lower development costs to the specifics of plugins and API coverage, Hajan gets us started with everything we need to start hacking with Xamarin, and even finishes off with a demo project!
Monkberry is blazingly fast, small 1kb and simple JavaScript library for building web user interfaces – Monkberry is blazingly fast, small 1kb and simple JavaScript library for building web user interfaces
Angular 2 – Best Practises to Level Up! – Angular 2 is spreading worldwide and becoming more popular; thus more people are starting to learn and use it. However, whether you’re a coding expert or are a beginner to the trade, there are some basic guidelines and practises you should follow when using Angular 2.

Links for June 7th through June 22nd

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Vinny

Apple Opens Up iPhone Code in What Could Be Savvy Strategy or Security Screwup – A preview of Apple’s next mobile operating system upgrade revealed some of its inner workings for the first time and suggests the company wants help finding security flaws
Netflix Billing Migration to AWS #aws – Once in the Cloud, we now see numerous opportunities to further enhance our services by using innovations of AWS and the Netflix platform
The Talk Show ✪: Live From WWDC 2016, With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi – Recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: WatchOS 3, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, iOS 10, and more.
Introducing the Docker for AWS and Azure Beta #docker – Today, we’re excited to announce Docker for AWS and Docker for Azure: the best ways to install, configure and maintain Docker deployments on AWS and Azure.
Hello, TensorFlow – Building and training your first TensorFlow graph from the ground up #machinelearning #deeplearning – Building and training your first TensorFlow graph from the ground up.
Docker for Java Developers – In this O’Reilly report, author Arun Gupta explains Docker’s basic concepts and the commonly used orchestration frameworks around them. You’ll learn how to achieve faster startup and deployments on both Windows and Linux, and understand how these containers improve portability across machines and reduce the impedance mismatch between development, testing, and production environments.
Barefoot Networks’ New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry | WIRED – Barefoot is building a new breed of chip that will alter the inner workings of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. It will force a response from hardware giants like Cisco and big chip makers like Intel and Broadcom
Chef’s new Habitat project wants to make applications infrastructure-independent – Habitat essentially wraps applications into their own lightweight runtime environments and then allows you to run them in any environment, ranging from bare metal servers to virtual machines, Docker containers (and their respective container management services), and PaaS systems like Cloud Foundry
Apple Just Improved the Most Important Social Network In Your Life – WSJ – After falling behind Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Apple’s putting the work into Messages; It goes deeper than just the emoji and sticker fun
The Principles of OOD based on Uncle Bob articles in Swift – The Principles of OOD based on Uncle Bob articles in Swift

Links for June 1st through June 5th

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Vinny

A Gentle Introduction to the Basics of Machine Learning – A Gentle Introduction to the Basics of Machine Learning
Inferno – An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces – Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs (github.com)
cloud.gov – The Government Innovation Platform, a platform by government developers, for government developers. – The Government Innovation Platform, a platform by government developers, for government developers.
Beyond the Twelve-Factor App: Exploring the DNA of Highly Scalable, Resilient Cloud Applications – Beyond the Twelve-Factor App: Exploring the DNA of Highly Scalable, Resilient Cloud Applications
Linux Journey – Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free – Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free
Building a better code review process – O’Reilly Media – By approaching change as if you're the customer and knowing the risks involved when making changes to your code base, you can reduce the amount of churn in the review process and increase the chances of shipping code that sticks around.
TensorFlow — an Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence – TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them
Introducing DeepText: Facebook’s text understanding engine – Facebook built DeepText, a deep learning-based text understanding engine that can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages.
Learn Docker by Building a Microservice – In this article I'm going to show you how Docker works, what all the fuss is about, and how Docker can help with a basic development task – building a microservice.
Meet The Internet’s Best Productivity Tool: If This Then That #IFTTT – Better known as IFTTT, the simple service that makes your favorite apps work together is the geek world’s best-kept secret

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