Geek Reading February 13, 2015

We have lots to share today! First, Expedia buys Orbitz for $1.6 billion. This is news more because it is so rare to see purchases of that magnitude. There are a few good articles on some advanced concepts, the central limit theorem, bayes theorem and paxos, a consensus algorithm. These concepts drive a lot of things that power some of your favorite sites, so give them a read. We also have a number of articles in the data category. Ayende @ Rahien continues the performance series, this time looking at faceting data. Netflix also gives us a primer on how they determine what is trending.

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

Top Stories

• Expedia Buys Orbitz For $1.6B In Cash To Square Up To Priceline | TechCrunch

Career and Process

• What do I do now? The startup lifecycle | VentureBeat
• Startup Parenthood | The Data Point by RJMetrics

Development

• Fault Tolerance in Go | Java Code Geeks
• Connascence of Value | Javalobby
• Why 12 Factor Application Patterns, Microservices and CloudFoundry Matter | Javalobby
• Crowdcrafting stack | Daniel Lombrana
• A JAXB Nuance: String Versus Enum from Enumerated Restricted XSD String | Inspired by Actual Events
• There are Gophers with Gifts at Fog Creek | Fog Creek Blog
• Locust | truveris
• Memrefuting | Shtetl-Optimized
• NoSQL with Hibernate OGM – Part two: Querying for your data | Java Code Geeks
• The Incredible Rewards Of Creating a Programming Language | Mike Driven Development

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• An Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem | Atomic Spin
• May Bayes Theorem Be With You | Stitch Fix Technology
• Paxos, a really beautiful protocol for distributed consensus | Good Math/Bad Math

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Facets of information, Part I | Ayende @ Rahien
• Visualization constraints | Flowing Data
• A tale of two clusters: Mesos and YARN | O’Reilly Radar
• Identifying Useful Info From MySQL Row-based Binary Logs | Javalobby
• What’s trending on Netflix? | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Paper summary: Perspectives on the CAP theorem | Metadata
• An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts With R and ggplot2 | Max Woolf’s Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer | WIRED
• Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic With Wireshark – The Easy Way! | Jim Shaver

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• Managed Policies for AWS Identity & Access Management | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 12, 2015 (#1953) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1474 | A Fresh Cup