dash — offline access to API documentation. Useful for those long-haul flights without wifi …
Gartner’s Top Trends for 2015 — ubicomp, IoT, 3d printing, pervasive analytics, context, smart machines, cloud computing, software-defined everything, web-scale IT, and security. Still not the year of the Linux desktop.
Byzantine Fault Tolerance — Wikipedia’s readable introduction to the basic challenge in distributed systems.
Move Fast, Break Nothing (Zach Holman) — Gartner talks about “web-scale IT”, but I think the processes and tools for putting code into product (devops) are far more transformative than the technology that scales the product delivery.