Image Credit, CoinStrategy.io PubNub , our weekly sponsor, empowers you to build immersive, interactive apps. Chat, maps, dashboards, smart device control — powered by APIs, delivered through global infrastructure. Learn more. Heyo Reader, want to know more about how Hacker Noon runs? I did a with , where I talk about the future of Hacker Noon, bootstrapping my business, upbringing, inspirations, a little bit of hoops, and what’s next in tech: . 5k+ word interview (24 min read) Pirate Beachbum Where There’s Smooke There’s Fire: Interview With David Smooke Founder of Hacker Noon And onto this week’s top 33 tech stories: by [11 min read] Blockchain 101: Ledger to HyperLedger Aayush Joglekar by [10 min read] Build the Right Things — A 5 Step Plan to a Rock-Solid Product Roadmap Eric Weiss by [7 min read] Building a serverless contact form with AWS Lambda and AWS SES Adnan Rahić by [53 min read] ContractPedia: An Encyclopedia of 40 Smart Contract Platforms vasa by [5 min read] Crypto Network Effects Tobias A. Huber by [10 min read] Crypto’s Role in the Age of Autonomization Jake Ryan by [6 min read] Elastic Stack — A Brief Introduction Urfeena Elahi by [31 min read] How Distributed Ledger Technologies are set to disrupt the world’s monetary system Alexandre Juncker & Thomas Bouquet by [29 min read] How Does Blockchain Technology Work? Taylor Pearson by [6 min read] How I added awesome multi-threaded features to Express JS Steve Konves by [12 min read] How I Built a Company With a $130M Valuation Howard Marks by [8 min read] How I got hired by Google, why I left, and why I chose to join OKCoin Alex Feinberg by [11 min read] How to build a roadmap in 3½ steps Momčilo Dakić by [5 min read] How to Start a Software Company as a Non-Technical Entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki by [7 min read] Is coding becoming obsolete? (Part I) Levon by [4 min read] More NEO: the Rolls Royce of crypto-tokens (and that’s a bad thing) David Gilbertson crypto adventures. by [9 min read} 9 Things You Need To Know About Mesh Networks Lara De Schutter - HypeLabs by [5 min read] Prediction markets are hot AF right now. Igor Feerer by [7 min read] Quantum Computing is Schrödinger’s Opportunity azeem by [8 min read] Reacting to React.js Puyan Wei by [5 min read] So, You Want to Be a PM, but You Aren’t Technical. Read This. Stephen Cognetta by [9 min read] Tensorflow Vs Keras? — Comparison by building a model for image classification. DataTurks: Data Annotations Made Super Easy by [4 min read] The Market Vs. The Frontier Founder Collective by [3 min read] The over-eager programmer Adam Zachary Wasserman by [4 min read] Things to Avoid While Accessing the Deep Web Hardik Patel by [9 min read]. Get votes on your twitter polls via Twitter Data Hacking: A Recipe to Yield Better Startup Insight Kenny Li AMIpolls.com by [15 min read] Understanding promises in Javascript Gokul N K by [8 min read] Using Pa11y CI and Drone as accessibility testing gatekeepers Dominic Fraser by [9 min read] Where is the money for mobile app developers in blockchain? Hammad Tariq by [9 min read] Why I left San Francisco to build my new startup while traveling the world Ariel Camus by [8 mind read] Why is Python so slow? Anthony Shaw by [6 min read] Why Your “Soft Skills” Matter in Building a Culture of Success Erik P.M. Vermeulen by [10 min read] You’re not even criticising Scrum Chris Cooney Hope you enjoy this 6 hours and 7 minutes of . Hacker Noon reading Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted. Kind Regards [ ] David Smooke 24 min read P.S. PubNub , our weekly sponsor, empowers you to build immersive, interactive apps. Chat, maps, dashboards, smart device control — powered by APIs, delivered through global infrastructure. Learn more.