Geek Reading: Startups and Aquisition

Leading our day, we have a wonderful acquisition. Medium acquired Superfeedr. This is very cool because Superfeedr was really started as a geeky tool for blogs but became a larger player. I am hoping that Medium allows it to flourish. Proper Fixation has an excellent post about avoiding “easy” things. Basically, if you want your career to improve, you cannot just do the easy work, you need to find the interesting projects to help you get noticed. The Macro gives us a good post on shipping early and often. Many people see this only in the realm of startups, but even in larger enterprises this is important. You may not be shipping to a public customer, but shipping to a group of internal reviewers is just as important.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Medium acquires Superfeedr | Superfeedr

Startups, Career, and Process

• Evil tip: avoid “easy” things | Proper Fixation
• The Art of Shipping Early and Often | The Macro
• Technical Leadership in Software Companies | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Design Patterns in the Real World: Flyweight | DZone Java
• Mockito Tutorial for Beginners | Java Code Geeks
• Code Coverage Isn’t Only for Unit Tests | DZone Agile
• Coordination in Akka | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance, and Scalability

• How to avoid wasting megabytes of memory a few bytes at a time | Red Hat Developers Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research, and Advanced Algorithms

• Multi-Class Classification Tutorial with the Keras Deep Learning Library | Machine Learning Mastery
• Bayesian Deep Learning | While My MCMC Gently Samples
• Introducing DeepText: Facebook’s text understanding engine | Facebook Code
• Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks | the morning paper
• Runge-Kutta implemented as a fold in Haskell | John D. Cook
• The Truth About Deep Learning | Quantified
• Linear Programming: How Does It Work? | Maybe-Mathematical Musings
• 5 Reasons Machine Learning Applications Need a Better Lambda Architecture | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL, and NoSQL

• No shard left behind: dynamic work rebalancing in Google Cloud Dataflow | Google Cloud Big Data

Infrastructure, Operations, and DevOps

• Dynomite-manager: Managing Dynomite Clusters | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Ensuring Containers Are Always Running with Docker’s Restart Policy | Java Code Geeks
• Monitoring Cassandra at Scale | Yelp Engineering

Security, Encryption, and Cryptography

• Cookies vs. Tokens: The Definitive Guide | DZone Integration

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1696 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – June 2, 2016 (#2264) | Morning Dew