Links & Reads from 2015 Week 38

Enjoy reading and exploring!

Reads:

• Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
• Official Kubernetes on CoreOS Guides and Tools
• SQL in CockroachDB: Mapping Table Data to Key-Value Storage
• Presentation: Airflow – An Open Source Platform to Author and Monitor Data Pipelines

#Java:

• Who Are Onyara & What Is Apache NiFi?
• Off-heap Memory in Apache Flink and the curious JIT compiler
• Automated tests with Eclipse using MoreUnit
• Comparing Imperative and Functional Algorithms in Java 8
• Sonarqube And Java 8
• Java Annotated Monthly – September 2015

#JavaScript:

• runtime.js — JavaScript library OS
• Node.js Foundation Combines Node.js and io.js Into Single Codebase in New Release
• BazaarJS: our criticisms of Angular

#Clojure:

• Clojure web development – state of the art

Links:

• Rust 1.3 release
• Kotlin M13 release
• Metrics 2.0 – ’emerging set of conventions, standards and concepts around timeseries metrics metadata’
• Citrus – ‘a test framework written in Java that is able to create fully automated end-to-end use case tests for enterprise SOA applications’
• Black Screen – ‘a modern terminal emulator (and shell) based on Electron’