Developer Reading List | March 13, 2015 |
Weekly insight of what's new and important for developers around the world. | Know someone looking for a job in tech?  Pi might not be rational, but making money and helping your friends get exciting new jobs sure is. Hired is celebrating math this Pi Day 2014 (March 14th for you humanities majors) by increasing our referral bonus to $3,141.59. That means for every friend you invite to Hired who ultimately accepts a job on our platform, you’ll receive $3,141.59 in non-repeating cash for simply inviting them with this link! | | How will your OLTP database perform if it had to scale up to 1024 cores? Not very well according to this fascinating paper: Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores, where a few intrepid chaos monkeys report the results of their fiendish experiment. The conclusion: we need a completely redesigned DBMS architecture that is rebuilt from the ground up. | | Andrew C Oliver "Last year I gave a crunch list of what you should know about Hadoop. It has been a couple months short of a year since then, but I thought I'd check in and see how you're coming along -- and add a few more technologies to the list." | | Dave Rooney "Many organizations in which I've coached are concerned when the people on their teams aren't being "utilized" at 100% of their capacity. If someone is at work for 8 hours per day, minus an hour for lunch and breaks, that's 7 hours of potential capacity. Some organizations are progressive enough to see that the organization's overhead of administrative activities lowers that value to 6 hours per day. By extension, a team's capacity is simply a multiple of the number of team members and the number of hours available to be utilized, i.e. a team of 5 has 30 person-hours per day." | | "Last week, at ng-conf, the Angular team at Google provided the web developer world with an update on the state of Angular 2. They were joined on stage by a member of the TypeScript team, Jonathan Turner, to also announce that Angular 2 will be built using TypeScript. Jonathan then demoed a preview of the upcoming TypeScript 1.5 release via an Angular 2 sample application.
This post will walk you through the Visual Studio editor support for the new language features in TypeScript as well as Angular 2." | | Antanas Marcelionis "Data visualization is on the rise. Publishers around the world — individual bloggers and major online publications alike — are realizing that charts, maps and combinations of the two can convey a message far more effectively than plain numbers can. From simple charts to fancy infographics to complex timeline animations, data visualizations are popping up all over the Internet. However, as in any other area, once everyone gets on the train, distinguishing yourself from the pack becomes hard.
Read on to find out how a physics engine can really set your efforts apart." | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. © 2009-2015 Startup Digest. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Startup Weekend. All rights reserved. | | |
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