Interesting Reads

We're going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers.

• A brief history of digital typefaces
• Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz
• A javascript type inference engine
• Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us, see also, his recent paper on the new environment he's building, and some of the code
• Twitter's scala school
• Comcast begins IPv6 deployment
• Rich Hickey, clojure's creator on complexity in software
• A presentation on Netflix's AWS platform