Been a while since I did one of these, so here's a list of some of the interesting links I find in my Pinboard bookmarks from this December.

Computing

• Eureka! Why You Shouldn’t Use ZooKeeper for Service Discovery - knewton developer blog
• Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform - Netflix Tech Blog
• JMAP - A better way to email - Fastmail blog
• Principles of Distributed Computing - A good book I saw linked to several times this month, by Roger Wattenhofer
• How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at VoltDB - VoltDB blog
• Nuitka - A Python compiler
• Please Offer An Excel Export Option - Evan Miller
• Managing Repositories with Pulp - Justin Garrison on the Sysadvent blog
• Docker Image Insecurity - Jonathan Rudenberg
• Ross Anderson talks about practical tradecraft for journalists - from The Logan Symposium

Physics

• Equivalence of wave–particle duality to entropic uncertainty

Books and Fun

• Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher - A fun epistolary novel about an emattled English professor at a small research university. Mostly letters of recommendation.
• Legion: Skin Deep - by Brandon Sanderson
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - by Mark Levinson
• The Peripheral - by William Gibson

• The Black Company - by Glen Cook (re-read this month)

• Mistborn Allomancy Dice - A Kickstarter project