Geek Reading March 23, 2016 #1068

Leading the day we have GoDaddy and their announcement of the availability of their Cloud Servers and Applications. GoDaddy has been trying to clean up their image and get into more technical hosting, so this follows what I have seen in the recent past. I am not sure if it is a great idea to try to compete with Google and Amazon at this point though. Facebook gives us some interesting research and a cool data visualization in their post about careers running in families. Google Cloud Platform announces some improvements to Google Cloud Launcher, which simplifies running third party applications in the cloud. This is good positioning between Amazon AWS and platforms like Heroku.

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

Startups, Career, and Process

• Boost Agile Testing by Cultivating a Shared Mental Model | DZone Agile
• 3 Tips for building a Technical Vision | Pat Kua
• Gamify your learning goals | Cindy Potvin
• 10 Leadership Qualities to Become a Successful Product Manager | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Ember & Data Down, Actions Up | Jeffrey Jurgajtis
• Inheritance Is Terrible | Lionel Barrow
• That Code’s Not Dead – It Went To a Farm Upstate… And You’re Paying For It | DaedTech
• Sub-processing with modern C++ | From Mordor, with love
• Simple coroutines for games in C++ | I Like Big Bits
• The Maximal Decoupled “Parameterized Factory-Method-Pattern” | DZone Java
• 3 Steps For Analyzing a Gradle Project With SonarQube Using Docker | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance, and Scalability

• How do you do capacity planning? | Julia Evans
• Web Page Performance Death by a Thousand Tiny Cuts | metroize

Big Data, Visualization, SQL, and NoSQL

• (Abusing) Elasticsearch as a Framework | zignar.net
• Do jobs run in families? | Research at Facebook
• Apache Spark as a Distributed SQL Engine | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations, and DevOps

• Packing the way to immutable infrastructure | grobinson.net
• Looking at DiagnosticCommandMBean in JConsole and VisualVM | Inspired by Actual Events

Security, Encryption, and Cryptography

• Bypassing Antivirus With Ten Lines of Code or (Yet Again) Why Antivirus is Largely Useless | attactics[dot]org
• 3 Months and 1 Million SSH Attempts Later | Livesshattack.net Blog

IaaS, PaaS, Saas, and *aas

• Google Cloud Launcher simplifies running third party apps in the cloud | Google Cloud Platform
• GoDaddy Announces Worldwide Launch of Cloud Servers & Cloud Applications | GoDaddy Inc

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1661 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – March 21, 2016 (#2212) | Morning Dew