2016-10-28 Friday - Weekend Reading List

http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meeker-2016-state-of-the-web-presentation-2016-6?op=0#/#-1

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/08/10-algorithms-machine-learning-engineers.html

https://medium.baqend.com/building-a-shop-with-sub-second-page-loads-lessons-learned-4bb1be3ed07#.1113nb18z

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.html#41

https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-stack-5-0-0-released 

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
 
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/

2016-10-21 Friday - AI Topics, Weekend Reading

• https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/CommAI-Train-Test-Facebook
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/CommAI-env
• https://github.com/facebook/MazeBase

Paper: "A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence"

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08130

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08130v2.pdf

2016-10-14 Friday - The 2016 Top Programming Languages

The 2016 Top Programming Languages

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-programming-languages

2016-10-14 Friday - Is REST Holding Your API Performance Hostage?

Github's recent adoption of Facebook's GraphQL has me reconsidering ways to approach API design for my own clients...

• https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/graphQL-GitHub
• http://githubengineering.com/the-github-graphql-api/
• http://graphql.org/

There is no silver bullet (or free lunch) to balancing the concerns of performance, complexity, and minimizing leaking-the-abstraction - but there are very powerful and compelling advantages to the GraphQL approach that are worthy of your consideration in your approach to building APIs that minimize long-term maintenance, network latency, and providing greater flexibility to your service consumers