Some Links - 2012/12/09

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Functional Programs .. Rarely rot.
• The Relevance of Algorithms .. An essay.
• OOP .. Isn't a fundamental particle of computing.
• Scala .. How Martin Odersky rewrote the rules of coding for a mobile world?
• To eat or be eaten? .. Why software is eating the world.
• Google .. And the right database for the job.
• NoSQL .. The Love Child of Google, Amazon and ... Lotus Notes.
• RethinkDB .. Is built to store JSON documents.
• YARN .. Hadoop's next gen MapReduce.
• re:Invent .. Keynote: Werner Vogels.
• aws-self-serve .. A self service portal for ec2 instances.
• Cloud Outage Reports .. Detailed summaries of outages from cloud vendors.
• GitHub Outage .. An explanation.
• iOS .. Libraries to know.
• The Web .. An engineer's online toolbox.
• Selfspy .. A daemon that continuously monitors and stores what you are doing on your computer.
• Hackerspace .. A How To Start A Hackerspace guide.

Some Links - 2012/07/15

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• CAP .. Twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed.
• Bloom .. A language for disorderly distributed programming.
• Riak .. [Video] In production at Voxer.
• Riak .. [Video] Cluster membership.
• Google F1 .. A new RDBMS developed at Google.
• Cowboy .. A small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
• Asgard .. Netflix's Cloud Management and Deployment Software.
• Archaius .. A dynamic, multi dimensional, properties framework for cloud deployments.
• Zipkin .. A distributed tracing system.
• Knife::Server .. Bootstrap a new Chef Server on Amazon's EC2 or a standalone server.
• Nasuni .. Seeks to unify cloud storage.
• AWS .. Summary of the last outage.
• LLVM .. The Design of the Compiler Platform.
• Text Extraction Algorithms .. An evaluation.
• Walgreens .. Has released API and SDK for their Photo Printing Service.
• Data Wrangler .. An interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
• Recline.js .. Library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML.
• JavaScript .. Explaining JavaScript VMs in JavaScript.
• Processing .. Playing with GLSL in Processing.
• iOS Security .. [PDF] Apple provides details about security technology and features.
• Newton .. A reconsideration.
• Apertus .. Create a powerful, free and open cinema camera.
• FishPi .. An automated trans-oceanic surface vehicle.

Some Links - 2012/05/24

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Datavisualization Tools .. A collection of tools to create meaningful and beautiful data visualizations.
• Cubism.js .. A cool new way to display timeline data.
• Timeline Tool .. To build beautiful "media-based" timelines.
• NetworkX .. A Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.
• JavaScript in JavaScript .. A sandbox for JavaScript written in JavaScript.
• Mojito .. Yahoo! Open Sources Mojito, a JavaScript MVC application framework that runs server- and client-side.
• Dropwizard .. Production-quality HTTP+JSON web service in the shortest time possible.
• Pinterest .. 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data.
• Databus .. Creating a Low Latency Change Data Capture System at LinkedIn.
• Real-Time .. Say hello to the real real-time Web.
• Groovy .. Going to Mars with Domain-Specific Languages.
• HBase Schema Design .. Things you need to know.
• Deploy on Day One .. Making it Virtually Easy.
• Building for the Cloud .. At Netflix.
• Mosh .. The mobile remote shell.
• electric imp .. Bringing the power of the internet to places and devices it could never reach before.

Some Links - 2011/11/27

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Tangle .. Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.
• Mesos .. A cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks.
• Gnip .. Access to over 100 realtime social media streams.
• Fantom .. Write code portable to the Java VM, .NET CLR, and JavaScript in the browser.
• Upverter .. Social Making: Hardware design tools for the web.
• OpenMAMA .. A high performance Middleware Agnostic Messaging API.
• ShareJS .. Collaborative editing in any app.
• MADlib .. An open-source library for scalable in-database analytics.
• Scalala .. A high performance numeric linear algebra library for Scala.
• GitLab .. Projects/repositories hosting on your server.
• Crunch .. Easy MapReduce Pipelines for Hadoop.
• Graphs .. What are some good MapReduce implementations?
• HBase .. Schema Design - Things you need to know.
• SSD .. De-Confusing SSD (for Oracle Databases).
• Cocktails .. Are Yahoo Cocktails the answer for cross-platform apps?
• Netflix .. Global Platform.
• Netflix .. Building for the Cloud.
• Flipboard .. Evan Doll, co-founder explains how simplicity is one of the keys to success.

Some Links - 2011/08/03

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Paper.js .. An open source vector graphics scripting framework.
• Log.io .. Real-time log monitoring.
• Disco Project .. A distributed computing framework based on the MapReduce paradigm.
• Golden Orb .. A cloud-based open source project for massive-scale graph analysis.
• Spark Cluster Computing Framework .. An open source cluster computing system.
• Finagle .. A library for building asynchronous RPC servers and clients.
• RavenDB .. Documents, Nothing But Documents.
• hadoop-R .. Example code for running R on Hadoop.
• Facebook .. Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime.
• Facebook .. Moving an Elephant: Large Scale Hadoop Data Migration.
• Network Drive .. How to Write a Dead-Simple One.
• Netflix .. The Simian Army.
• Netflix .. Migrating from Oracle to Global Cassandra.
• Netflix .. Redesigning the API.
• Distributed System .. the Fundamental Compontents.
• CloudBee .. 3 PaaS lessons.
• Architecting for the Cloud .. Best Practices.

Some Links - 2011/05/28

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Talks .. Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2011.
• Talks .. Stuff to Watch from Surge 2010.
• Cloud Computing .. crash course, a nice presentation.
• Continuous Delivery .. a tool list.
• StackMob .. seems to provide a complete backend technology stack for mobile applications.
• CloudBees .. complete develop-to-deploy lifecycle of Java web applications in the cloud.
• Cloud Foundry .. using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC.
• Cloud Foundry .. Open PaaS Deep Dive.
• AWS Outage .. Lessons Netflix Learned from.
• Visualization .. 22 free tools.
• Lily .. Smart Data, at Scale, made Easy.
• Riak .. using Links to Index Riak objects.
• Splashscreens .. iOS UI Patterns.
• JS Conf .. slides - 2011.
• three.js .. a Javascript 3D Enginet.
• Microjs .. Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit.
• openFrameworks .. is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process.

Some Links - 2011/04/23

Some links that crossed my way recently:

• Mashape .. apizize yourself.
• Now.js .. directly call remote functions in Javascript.
• Node.js .. for $0.02 or less.
• Varnish .. a high performance http accelerator.
• Netflix .. HTML5 to deliver amazing user interfaces on hundreds of devices.
• Maqetta .. a WYSIWYG visual authoring tool for HTML5.
• YUI 3 .. a recipe for an application.
• Nimbula .. delivers Amazon EC2-like services to Enterprises and Service Providers.
• CloudFoundry .. getting started.
• Riak, Vagrant, Chef .. creating a local riak cluster.
• Riak Core .. where to start.
• riak_zab .. Zookeeper Atomic Broadcast Protocol for riak.
• Amazon S3 .. client-side data encryption using AWS Java SDK.
• Google ProtoRPC .. a simple way to create well defined and easy to use web-based Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) services.
• Particles .. an art installation.
• Product design .. at GitHub.
• Lessons .. from GitHub’s first year.

Some Links - 2011/03/27

Some links to interesting projects and blog posts I came across recently:

• Pattern .. is s a web mining module for the Python programming language.
• d3.js .. a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
• Mobile CouchDB .. CouchDB for iOS.
• Project Hank .. Hank is an open-source system for running distributed, highly-scalable, low-latency, batch-writable-only, key-value datastores.
• Cluster .. node.js multi-core server manager with plugins suport.
• Google Public Data Explorer .. makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
• Orion .. deliver code based editing and debugging through a web-based interface.
• Jackson .. a multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON.
• PhantomJS .. a minimalistic headless WebKit.
• Wallaby .. convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML.
• Illuminations .. is a tool that makes developing web applications more intuitive when using Ext JS and Firebug.
• Real_Time_Congress_API .. a RESTful API over the artifacts of Congress.
• LinkedIn .. build a distributed realtime tweet search system in no time.
• AOL .. an emerging data management architectural pattern behind interactive web application.
• Measure .. Anything, Measure Everything.

Some Links - 2011/02/13

Some links to interesting projects and blog posts I came across recently:

• Apigee and 3scale .. APIs as a service.
• YQL .. Video: Building Open Data Tables with YQL Execute.
• node.io .. a distributed data scraping and processing framework.
• CodeMirror .. a JavaScript library that can be used to create editor interface for code-like content.
• WireIt .. a Javascript library to create web wirable interfaces for dataflow applications, visual programming languages, graphical modeling, or graph editors.
• Treesaver.js .. a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS.
• lawnchair .. a lightweight clientside JSON document store.
• Compass .. a Stylesheet Authoring Environment.
• kippo .. a SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
• About Version Vectors .. an introduction.
• Norbert .. a Java library that provides easy cluster management and workload distribution.
• Geckoboard .. a Realtime Business Status Board.
• U.C.Engine .. a publish/subscribe server with persistence.

Some Links - 2011/01/22

Some links to interesting projects and blog posts I came across recently:

• Processing and Data Visualization .. getting started.
• Kinect and Processing .. getting started.
• Bixo .. an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop.
• Wukong .. is Ruby for Hadoop.
• npm .. a package manager/repository for node.js.
• JSDOM .. is a CommonJS implementation of the W3C Document Object Model designed to work with Node.js.
• mug .. a JavaScript compiler for the JVM, written in Clojure.
• couchdb-lucene .. enables full-text searching of CouchDB documents using Lucene.
• MongoHub .. a native mac GUI application for mongodb.

Some Links - 2010/12/18

Some links to interesting projects, products, and videos I came across recently:

• Soulver .. a simple but effective UI .. a video.
• Using (Not Abusing) YQL for Caching, Filtering and Collating Data .. a cool presentation about the features of YQL .. a video.
• Dremel .. Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets .. a paper.
• Kafka .. a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system.
• Impure .. a Visual Programming Language for Infographics.
• UI Guidelines .. for Skeuomorphic Multi-Touch Interfaces.
• Andy Rubin talks about Android .. dive mobile .. a video.
• Facebook Engineering .. looking at the code behind the three uses of Apache Hadoop.
• AWS SDKs .. for Mobile Development (Android and iOS).

LinkedIn Signal

LinkedIn Signal, an impressive show-case of a Lucene- and facet-based realtime search of Twitter-feeds.

.. additional information of LinkedIn's technology plus their opensource projects can be found at SNA LinkedIn .. cool stuff ..