The first issue in May is here! Today links about running stack on the budget, a visual introduction to machine learning, basics of load balancing and some longer text about API and Microsoft!
Business and (side)project section
1. Stack on a budget (Free Tier Driven Development FTDD)
https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget
A collection of services that provides a free tier for developers. A good place to start with some pet projects or testing some new tools!
2. How I manage running multiple products of ~$18K/mo total revenue
How one guy is managing multiple projects at once? Creator of Xnapper (screenshot app for macOS) shares his 6 important things about how he works on projects (e.g. dogfooding, moving slowly, doing something every day).
Developer section
3. Load Balancing
https://samwho.dev/load-balancing/
Load balancing topic presented in a nice graphical way - nice animations describing various used algorithms.
4. A visual introduction to machine learning
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
Another visual introduction - this time to machine learning. Scroll down to drill down into the data about homes and create an ML model!
5. Model Tuning and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-2/
A continuation of the previous introduction to Machine Learning - now going deeper into model tuning and the model bias.
Other interesting links
6. How Microsoft Lost the API War
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/
An older post (2004) from Joel Spolsky about Microsoft, APIs, .NET, Visual Basic and a bit of history. In summary, there is a sentence “new API is HTML” which is pretty valid today!