Links for December 16th through January 8th

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Vinny

Filestack – Upload or ingest images, documents and files of any type. – Ingest unlimited files via our easy-to-use API. Or, integrate the original file picker with two lines of code and allow users to upload files from 20+ cloud sources.
How to Build a Great Looking Universal App with Ext JS – Part 1 | – In this article, I’ve described what an Ext JS 6 universal app is, what I like about the universal app approach, and why I converted my app. In Part 2, I’ll show you exactly how I converted my music app to a universal app.
How to Upgrade a Sencha Touch App to Ext JS 6 Modern Toolkit – Part 1 – In this tutorial, I will show you how you can upgrade your app, and why you should consider taking this step.
Jasper is an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications – Jasper is an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications
The safe simple & easy way to build native iOS apps in Java – ParparVM is the VM developed by Codename One to replace the defunct XMLVM with which it was originally built.
Oracle acquires StackEngine, plots new cloud campus in Austin #docker – Oracle acquired StackEngine, a startup with a container operations platform for DevOps based in Austin, Texas.
Google Plans New, Smarter Messaging App w/ a chatbot that will scour the Web to answer a question @dgreller – Users will be able to text friends or a chatbot that will scour the Web and other sources to answer a question
IBM, JP Morgan build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation – IBM, JP Morgan, and others build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation
Amazon Aurora Review – Congratulations to the @awscloud team – nfoWorld awarded Amazon Aurora "Editor's Choice" after an in-depth review. InfoWorld says "Amazon's revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server".
The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development offers over 3,400 pages of Android instruction, from the very basics through highly advanced topics. – The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development offers over 3,400 pages of Android instruction, from the very basics through highly advanced topics.

Links for December 10th through December 16th

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Vinny

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!

Links for November 30th through December 8th

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Vinny

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.

Links for November 24th through November 29th

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Vinny

Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin – The ability to think critically is one skill separating innovators from followers. Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. This is a skill most studen
How We Moved From Heroku To Containers With No Docker Experience – Now that we’ve containerized our Ruby application stack, we’re no longer bound to a specific cloud provider or PaaS solution. Since DCHQ integrates with 13 different cloud providers, we can easily deploy the same template on any Linux host running anywhere.
Our take on native, shell and mobile web apps #mobile – we will try to map out some of the major differences between building web, shell and native apps.
Sony employees on the hack, one year later. – What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyberattack tore the company apart.
One Googler’s War Against JavaScript Frameworks – ReadWrite – Using a framework is probably a good idea, but it’s an even better idea for developers to ensure they’re savvy about what the frameworks are trying to abstract.
New Docker tool removes a big barrier for enterprises | CIO – Aiming to give companies operational control while maintaining developers' productivity, Docker Universal Control Plane runs on-premises and is designed to help deploy and manage Dockerized distributed applications in production on any infrastructure.
JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable apps! – JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable (and cheap) apps!
Dance to Calypso – WordPress reimagined #reactjs #nodejs – Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work
Electron – Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies – With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.
Now Available – EC2 Dedicated Hosts #aws – Last month, I announced that we would soon be making EC2 Dedicated Hosts available. As I wrote at the time, this model allows you to control the mapping of EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers.

Links for November 14th through November 23rd

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Vinny

Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler – At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler.
Red Hat announces Ansible Tower, automation tool designed to help #DevOps manage and track their infrastructure – Red Hat wants to give DevOps teams more control and options in its latest release of Ansible Tower 2.4: the open-source automation tool designed to help DevOps manage and track their infrastructure. This is the first release of Ansible Tower since Red Hat
Running Docker on AWS from the ground up – In this post, I’m going to introduce Docker deployment from the ground up, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting. I picked AWS because it’s incredibly popular, offers a free tier you can use to try this tutorial at no cost, and provides first-class Docker support via the EC2 Container Service (ECS)
Emerging Best Practices in Swift, with Ash Furrow – In this talk at the GOTO Conference CPH 2015, Ash Furrow explores how to navigate the uncharted waters of Swift to discover and identify new best practices, with concrete examples such as unit testing and refactoring code.
A distributed, tag-based pub-sub service for modern web applications and container-driven cloud. – Mist is a simple pub/sub based on the idea that messages are tagged. To subscribe the client simply constructs a list of tags that it is interested in, and all messages that are tagged with ALL the tags are sent to the client. A client may have multiple su
The Netflix Tech Blog: Global Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker – Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud Continuous Delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Spinnaker is designed with pluggability in mind; the platform aims to make it easy to extend and enhance cloud deployment models.
Aerotwist – The Cost of Frameworks – I recently delivered a talk at FFConf in Brighton, called "You should use <insert library / framework here>, it's the bestestest!". I wanted to do a write-up of the presentation's content here, hopefully so it can start a broader conversation that I think we need to have, mainly around the cost of modern frameworks on mobile devices.
Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8 – This tutorial guides you step by step through all new language features. Backed by short and simple code samples you'll learn how to use default interface methods, lambda expressions, method references and repeatable annotations
TensorFlow and monetizing intellectual property #google – Google is approaching machine learning from a position of strength: the company already has the most data and the most imposing infrastructure, and as noted open-souring TensorFlow accelerates the removal of the primary limitation to leveraging that advantage: the quality of the system itself.
CoreOS Introduces Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for your Containers – Today we are open sourcing a new project called Clair, a tool to monitor the security of your containers. Clair is an API-driven analysis engine that inspects containers layer-by-layer for known security flaws

Links for October 28th through November 10th

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Vinny

Yelp Open Sources Its PaaS To Liberate You From Docker – Yelp, a quiet hero in open source, just released its internal PaaS ("platform as a service") to the open source community called, cleverly, PaaSTA
6 Ways To Avoid App Fatigue With Enterprise Apps – ReadWrite – The enterprise software market is poised to explode. In a recent report, Gartner projects app spending by companies to rise 7.5% this year to $149.9 billion, and in 2019, to more than $201 billion.
Startup Playbook by Sam Altman #ycombinator #startup – Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies.
Announcing Confidant: an open source secret management service from Lyft – I’m pleased to announce the initial open source release of Confidant, a secret management service for AWS users, built by engineers at Lyft.
Redefine Java virtualization with Docker #docker – This installment of Open source Java projects introduces Java developers to Docker. I'll explain why it's important to developers, walk you through setting up and deploying a Java application to Docker, and show you how to integrate Docker into your build process.
Real Time, Open Source Data Sync – Telepat – Telepat is an open-source backend stack, designed to deliver information updates to and from connected devices in real-time, while allowing for flexible deployment and simple scaling.
Computer Science Field Guide – online interactive resource for students learning Computer Science – The "Computer Science Field Guide" is an online interactive resource for high school students learning about computer science, developed at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages – Great news from the JetBrains team: today we’re announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15! As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more built-in tools and integrations, and further improved codin
Federal Election Commission data API – see how our govt. is bought #CampaignFinance – See how money is raised and spent in federal elections. Compare candidates’ financial data.
Feeling like you’re an expert can make you closed-minded #psychology – the path of acquiring knowledge, and being wrong a lot along the way, may produce countervailing positive influences upon open-mindedness, something not examined in this study. This means we can conclude from this research a narrow but important point: tha
Go extra lightweight, with Java microframeworks Spark, Ninja, and Play – In the world of Java web development, such a tool would be described as lightweight. Java microframeworks have recently emerged as the newest and leanest of frameworks yet. Rather than consolidate a massive feature set, as did Java EE, or even a lighter MVC framework like Spring, microframeworks put the programmer at the center of a coherent set of increasingly powerful, lightweight tools.

Links for October 14th through October 26th

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Vinny

Front-end Developer Handbook – This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it.
fastlane – iOS Automation for Continuous Delivery – fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods and Gradle.
Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates #android – The 12-week course, held at computer programming school General Assembly, plans to put newly minted Android developers in positions at VICE Media and Karma.
Ensuring Cloud Native Success: The Greenfield Journey webinar #pivotal – Join us for the first installment of this 3 part webinar session: The Greenfield Journey – when you're starting with a “blank screen,“ how can you make sure you're successful enough to be given permission to work on the next project? Unfettered by existing
The Staggering Impact of IT Systems Gone Wrong – IEEE Spectrum – Explore the many ways in which IT failures have squandered money, wasted time, and generally disrupted people’s lives
Docker Acquires Tutum To Help IT Teams Deploy and Manage Production Apps – Today we’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Tutum, a cloud service used by developers and sysadmins to deploy and manage Docker applications
iOS Cookies | A hand curated collection of iOS libraries written in Swift – iOS Cookies are collection of hand curated iOS open-source libraries written in Swift.
A brief introduction to a cleaner Android architecture: The MVP pattern – One of the most common pattern that the community of Android developers has been using for a while and that has got lot of attention is the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern and we will focus on it on this post.
Why Companies Have Stopped Outsourcing IT – The Experts – WSJ – The rise of digitization, big data analytics and cognitive technologies has made IT strategic again. And it is often difficult to get innovative, differentiated outcomes when you turn IT over to someone else.
Katharsis – Elegant and powerful HATEOAS for Java based on JSON:API standard – The Katharsis library adds an additional layer on top of RESTful endpoint to provide easy HATEOAS support for Java by implementing JSON:API standard.

Links for October 6th through October 14th

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Vinny

Full interview: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Marketplace.org – Marketplace Tech Host Ben Johnson talked with Stewart Butterfield, the CEO and cofounder of Slack about how the workplace communication tool has changed as it's experienced precipitous growth, adoption by large workplaces, and a skyrocketing valuation.
SAP’s Cloud for Analytics enters crowded field – SAP launches Cloud for Analytics in a bid to be the layer that analyzes data stored around the enterprise.
The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts – Web authentication systems have evolved over the past ten years to counter a growing variety of threats. This post will present a fictional arms race between a web application developer and an attacker, showing how different threats can be countered with t
From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers – From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers
Innovate or Die: The Rise of Microservices – Software has emerged as the critical differentiator in every industry, from financial services to fashion, as “technology first” startups disrupt global markets. To stay alive, some of the biggest global enterprises we know are making a radical change in how they build and deliver software. The new model is called microservices, an approach where large applications are broken down into small, loosely coupled and composable autonomous pieces.
When Schools Overlook Introverts: Why Quiet Time is Important for the Learning Process – As the focus on group work and collaboration increases, classrooms are neglecting the needs of students who work better in quiet settings.
Werner’s Six Laws of Architecture #reInvent – Werner Vogels started his keynote today talking at length about Cloud Architecture, announcing a new architecture whitepaper called the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and then expanded on the Six Laws of Architecture he observes in cloud applications
AWS re:Invent 2015 – Keynote Summary – The annual flurry of announcements by Andy Jassy in Las Vegas provided the expected amount of excitement and disappointment (depending on whether you still had a business model at the end of it)
Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP – Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP — and it’s the latest attempt by a technology company to deal with the problem of the slow mobile web
AWS WAF – a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits – AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources

Links for September 28th through October 5th

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Vinny

React May Have Just Ended The Native Vs. Web Debate – ReadWrite – React Native changed one iOS developer's mind about web development. Will it change yours?
New Azure Container Service to bring together Mesos, Docker and Azure cloud – Microsoft's new Azure Container Service will be available to testers before year-end. That's just one of a handful of Azure-related announcements happening as part of AzureCon.
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions @robcrussell – The combination of hard and soft skills that drive business impact are the best indicator of success.
Nomad – A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler – Easily deploy applications at any scale – A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler
Otto – The Successor to Vagrant #devops – Otto is the single solution to develop and deploy any application, with first class support for microservices. It is the most powerful tool we've built yet.
The future of software development according to @Grady_Booch – Much has changed in software development since that seminal work, and not surprisingly, Booch has changed along with them and has a lot of opinions about the state of things today.
Dropbox: the first dead decacorn #valuation – To me, Slack feels like the first truly internet and mobile-native productivity platform – especially as it expands beyond messaging and into workflow automation, helper bots, and who knows what else. Dropbox might be the pinnacle of file management, but S
Which iOS Content Blocker is the Fastest? #ios9 – This is part one in a four part series on content blockers in iOS 9.
A Swift Introduction to Realm, with Tim Oliver – Tim Oliver, from the Cocoa team at Realm, presents a Swift introduction to Realm! He draws comparisons between Realm and other solutions (iOS and Mac), provides an introduction to Realm, and runs through some quick code examples in Swift.
Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland – In this talk from Droidcon NYC 2015, Michael Pardo introduces Kotlin: a statically typed JVM language backed by JetBrains. With features like lambdas, class extensions, and null-safety, it aims to be concise, expressive, and highly interoperable — a powerful addition to your Android tool belt.

Links for September 17th through September 26th

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Vinny

Metrics is a Java library which gives you unparalleled insight into what your code does in production. – Metrics provides a powerful toolkit of ways to measure the behavior of critical components in your production environment.
Ratpack 1.0 Launches Aiming to make Asynchronous Programming Easier on the JVM – Ratpack 1.0 Launches Aiming to make Asynchronous Programming Easier on the JVM
Ratpack: Simple, lean & powerful HTTP apps – Ratpack is a set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications.
A Developer’s Journey into Linux Containers – In this article I am going to cover the concepts behind containerization. I am going to cover how a container differs from a virtual machine. I am going to go into the logic behind containers construction as well as how containers fit into application arch
Hacking with Swift – learn to code iPhone and iPad apps with free Swift tutorials – Looking for Swift 2 and iOS 9 changes? All these projects are written for Swift 2, so you're good to go. I also wrote two articles that will interest you: What's New in Swift 2 and What's New in iOS 9. You can find all my free iOS 9 tutorials in one place
Front-End Development Explained for Non-Developers – This plethora of technologies makes it challenging for developers and next to impossible for lay people to follow this field. This post will attempt to explain the landscape of front-end development technologies (as of mid-2015) for a non-developer audienc
Lemur – Netflix open sources a x.509 certificate orchestration framework – Lemur is a certificate management framework that acts as a broker between certificate authorities and internal deployment and management tools. This allows us to build in defaults and templates for the most common use cases, reduce the need for a developer
Swift 2 Apps in the App Store – Swift 2 is ready for the world. You can now submit your apps that take advantage of the latest features in Swift 2 that make code more readable and powerful, including guard, the new error handling model, and availability controls.
Introducing Spring Cloud Data Flow – a cloud native programming model for microservices – Cloud Native composable microservices for ingesting, transforming, storing, and analyzing data. Spring Cloud Data Flow enables developers to build both real-time and batch processing applications using the same simple-yet-powerful model as their Spring Boo
Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker by @marcoarment – Today, I’m launching my own iOS 9 content blocker, called Peace, to bring peace, quiet, privacy, and — as a nice side benefit — ludicrous speed to iOS web browsing.

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