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Startups, Career and Process

• How to De-Brilliant Your Code | DaedTech
• Some Design Up Front: An Alternative to ‘Sprint Zero’ | Atomic Object
• Agile Product Roadmap for Dummies in 4 Steps | DZone Agile
• The 3 Things Scrum Teams Get Wrong | DZone Agile
• 8 Best Practices to Start a Scrum Project | DZone Agile
• Dealing in Abstraction | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Making custom renderers for React | Gosha Arinich
• The Hardest Part About Microservices: Your Data | Christian Posta
• MuleSoft: Digitally Sign and Verify a Document | DZone Integration
• API Errors Are First Class Citizens | DZone Integration
• My Journey in Scala, Part 1: Awakenings | DZone Java
• Announcement: Swift 3 Endgame and Swift 4 Kickoff | Erica Sadun
• Accessing Google Sheets with Ruby and Google Apps Script | Atomic Object
• Contributors do not save time | David R. MacIver
• Destroy All Ifs – A Perspective from Functional Programming | John A De Goes
• writing custom type systems for python in prolog | alehander42
• 4 Key Guiding Principles to Building Your Application Network | DZone Integration
• A First Look at the Newly Released JUnit 5 | DZone Java
• Exponential time complexity in the Swift type checker | Cocoa with Love

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: The curse of old age… | Ayende @ Rahien
• Real-world HTTP/2: 400gb of images per day | 99designs engineering blog
• Java Runtime Performance Monitoring: GC and Safepoints | DZone Java

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Behind Wolfram|Alpha’s Mathematical Induction-Based Proof Generator | Wolfram Blog
• Mittag-Leffler function and probability distribution | john D. Cook
• Algebraic patterns – Semigroup | Badness 10.000

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• From Pig to Spark: An Easy Journey to Spark for Apache Pig Developers | Java Code Geeks
• When to use unstructured datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB | citusdata
• Billions of Messages a Day – Yelp’s Real-time Data Pipeline | Yelp Engineering

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• One way to make containers network: BGP | Julia Evans

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The Browser is the Worst Sandbox Ever Designed | Ben Trask
• Executing non-alphanumeric JavaScript without parenthesis | PortSwigger Web Security Blog

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1706 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – July 15, 2016 (#2288) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #145: Font Loading, Scaling SVGs And Infinite Scrolling | Smashing Magazine
• Programming Digest #168 for July 18, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter

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Top Stories

• Atlassian acquires #1 status communication platform StatusPage | Atlassian

Startups, Career and Process

• Some Design Up Front: Why “Sprint Zero” is Not Enough | Atomic Object
• An Almost Acquisition Story | Astronomer
• The Roofshot Manifesto | re:Work
• 12 Mistakes in Agile Manifesto | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Mixins Considered Harmful | React
• Background: An Architecture for Millions of Things | Citybound DevBlog
• Easy Resource Internationalization With Rincl | DZone Java
• An Informal Approach to Higher-Order Runnables | DZone Java
• Introducing the Facebook SDK for Swift Beta | Facebook for Developers

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Bandwidth reduction for erasure coded storage | StorageMojo
• What Goes Down Better Come Up a.k.a. Adventures in Hbase Diagnostics | Feedly
• Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s | Dropbox Tech Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Kalman filters and functional programming | John D. Cook
• Teaching an AI to write Python code with Python code | Will cars dream?
• How to Use Machine Learning Algorithms in Weka | Machine Learning Mastery

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Backup, restore and the environment… | Ayende @ Rahien
• How do HTTP requests get sent to the right place? | Julia Evans
• Monitoring our Stack with Elixir | AlphaSights Engineering

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Mozilla SUMO cache poisoning and open redirect | Yassine Aboukir
• The Value of a Hacked Company | Krebs on Security

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Run your Spring Boot application on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk | Java Code Geeks
• Great News! Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon. | Cloud9

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 14. 2016 (#2287) | Morning Dew

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Startups, Career and Process

• The Case for Lean: Capturing Business Work | DZone Agile
• The Grad’s Dilemma: How I Found a Software Job that Fits | Atomic Object
• How Much to Develop an App? | DZone Agile
• Why Startup Technical Diligence is a Waste of Time | Coding VC
• Pairing, Swarming, and Mobbing | Johanna Rothman

Design and Development

• The Promise of REST, the Problem of Collective Engineering, and the (Un)reliability of the Cloud | DZone Integration
• How to Use Spring Social With Facebook: Part 2 | DZone Java
• Test-Driven Development With Mockito | Java Code Geeks
• Rake 201 | envatotuts+
• Building A Cross-Platform WebGL Game With Babylon.js | Smashing Magazine
• Why Amazon Retail Went to a Service Oriented Architecture | High Scalability
• Securing client-side public API access with OAuth 2 and Symfony | Codevate
• Building a Rails Notification Queue 2: The Notification Class | Ascent

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Fast transaction log: Windows | Ayende @ Rahien
• What Distributed System means | GianArb

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication | MIT News
• An Introduction to Model-Based Machine Learning | Data Science Blog by Domino
• Bayesian Machine Learning, Explained | KD Nuggets
• 8 Inspirational Applications of Deep Learning | Machine Learning Mastery

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Dockerizing Elixir and Phoenix Applications | semaphore

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• SYN Flood Mitigation with synsanity | GitHub Engineering
• Scale Your Security Vulnerability Testing with Amazon Inspector | AWS Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 13, 2016 (#2286) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1705 | A Fresh Cup

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Startups, Career and Process

• Using Code as a Medium for Continuous Learning | Atomic Object
• You’re doing it wrong: Done-Done | Gil Zilberfeld
• The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development | Frontside
• The Xenodochial Agile Coach | DZone Agile
• 8 Tips for Collaborating with the Development Team | Java Code Geeks
• Salary Negotiations Study: Data from Tech Employees | Comparably Blog
• How Collaboration Humanizes the Enterprise | DaedTech

Design and Development

• Getting started with ANTLR: building a simple expression language | Java Code Geeks
• Getting Rid of the Gang-of-Four Design Patterns is Nonsense | S.Lott-Software Architect
• Global Languages Support at Netflix – Testing Search Queries | The Netflix Tech Blog
• State in scalable architectures | Java Code Geeks
• Shipping Rust in Firefox | Mozilla Hacks
• How to build server less applications for Mist | Ethereum Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• A brief overview of the Raft algorithm | carlosgaldino
• Fast transaction log: Linux | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• How to Perform Feature Selection With Machine Learning Data in Weka | Machine Learning Mastery
• Ambry: LinkedIn’s scalable geo-distributed object store | the morning paper

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Goods: organizing Google’s datasets | the morning paper
• The best way to detect database connection leaks | Vlad Mihalcea

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Minikube: easily run Kubernetes locally | Kubernetes

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Datachains: an AI driven DAS for incentivizing taste-based content delivery | Matthew Roberts

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 12, 2016 (#2285) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1704 | A Fresh Cup
• 10 Top JavaScript Blogs to Improve Your Coding Skills | LiveCoding

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Startups, Career and Process

• Open source is a life changer | Piotr Gankiewicz
• The Case for Lean: Presenting Status | DZone Agile
• Alignment vs. Autonomy and the Purpose Alignment Model | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Scala vs Kotlin: Pimp my library | Nicolas Frankel
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: The communication protocol | Ayende @ Rahien
• Python: Scraping elements relative to each other with BeautifulSoup | Mark Needham
• Message Level Authorization in Apache ActiveMQ | Java Code Geeks
• What’s Wrong With This Code: On Implementation and Behavior | DZone Java
• Android StackView Example | Java Code Geeks
• Nine Nasty UX Truths | Radical UX
• Anvil: Like MsAccess For The Web But With Git Coolness | Paul Hammant
• The Search For The Holy Grail: How I Ended Up With Element Queries, & How You Can Use Them Today | Smashing Magazine
• Go Context | Peter Bourgon

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Formal methods let you explore the corners | John D. Cook
• The Multiworld Testing Decision Service | Machine Learning (Theory)
• The Blum-Blum-Shub Pseudorandom Generator | Jeremy Kun

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Visualizing relationships between python packages | Robert Kozikowski
• Realtime data processing at Facebook | the morning paper
• How to remove duplicate rows from a table in SQL | Java Code Geeks
• PostgreSQL 9.6: Parallel Sequential Scan | 2ndQuadrant

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Couchbase Docker Container on Amazon ECS | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Backdooring an AWS account | Cyber Free
• 1 in 16 Java Components Have Security Defects | DZone Java

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 11, 2016 (#2284) | Morning Dew

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Startups, Career and Process

• 7 books that taught me how to code | Code And Graphics
• How Reviewing Strangers’ Code on Github Can Make You a Better Programmer | DZone Agile
• Good coding instincts will eventually kick you in the teeth | Free Code Camp
• Analysis | The Programmer’s Paradox
• What Makes A Great Software Engineer? | Elliot Chance

Design and Development

• Why I Write Cucumber Steps with Step Definitions that Have No Code | Kamil Nicieja
• Hiding a payload in PNG files with Python | Brian de Heus
• Building an Ember App Without a Back-End | Code School Blog
• Using Rust in an Embedded Project: A Simple Example | Atomic Object
• Reverse debugging for Python | PyPy Status Blog
• EventStorming – What You Need to Know | Daniel Whittaker
• Debug Legacy Code by Starting with a Unit Test | Atomic Object
• The 6 Month Bug (and why I will never abbreviate variable names) | beehollander
• Ratpacked: Create a Partial Response | DZone Integration
• Writing Microservices in Flask Using Python | Code Ahoy
• 6 Characteristics That Make an API Great for Application Integration | DZone Integration

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Performance of trait methods | The Scala Programming Language

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• R: Sentiment analysis of morning pages | Mark Needham
• How To Handle Missing Values In Machine Learning Data With Weka | Machine Learning Mastery

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• A Full Comparison of Redshift and BigQuery | panoply.io

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• 3 Major Ways Agile Differs From DevOps | DZone Agile

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• 1,025 Wendy’s Locations Hit in Card Breach | Krebs on Security

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 8, 2016 (#2283) | Morning Dew
• Programming Digest #167 for July 11, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter

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Startups, Career and Process

• Faster Than the Rest: Why Staying Agile Is the Key to Startup Success | DZone Agile
• A way to be Agile without micromanagement | Edoardo Turelli
• 7 Habits of Super Productive Java Developers | DZone Java

Design and Development

• Failure is not an option; it’s a requirement | Dialed In
• Quick Sort Algorithm – Explanation and Implementation | CodinGeek
• Grails REST Example | Java Code Geeks
• Leaving Unhandled Errors Behind | DZone Java
• Goldilocks Microservices | Java Code Geeks
• How to Use Spring Social With Facebook Part I | DZone Java
• Building a Web UI for MySQL Databases in Plain Java | DZone Java
• Insertion to Linked List – Explanation, Types and Implementation | CodinGeek
• Simplest C# code to post a tweet using OAuth | Danny Tuppeny

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Multi-domain dialog state tracking using recurrent neural networks | the morning paper
• How to Get Started with Java Machine Learning | Takipi Blog
• Support Vector Machines: A Simple Explanation | KD Nuggets
• Ten challenges in highly-interactive dialog systems | the morning paper

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Writing to a data file | Ayende @ Rahien
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: The enemy of thy database is… | Ayende @ Rahien
• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All | Zed A. Shaw

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• DevOps is disintegrating. But maybe that’s OK | TechBeacon

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Increase Security by Transitioning From Monolith to Microservices Architecture | DZone Integration
• Experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography | Google Security Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 7, 2016 (#2282) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing | Smashing Magazine

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Startups, Career and Process

• Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You! | Occam’s Razor
• BDD and Agile Requirements Combined With Cynefin Framework | DZone Agile
• The Perfect Resume | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Building Angular 2 applications with Immutable.js and Redux | Houssein Djirdeh
• The Need for Bin/start | The Lean Software Boutique
• ES5 Objects vs. ES6 Maps – The differences and similarities | appendTo
• REST Design – Choosing the Right HTTP Method | Code Ahoy
• Pocket watch: Verifying exabytes of data | Dropbox Tech Blog
• Unit, Integration and End-To-End Tests – Finding the Right Balance | Code Ahoy
• Literate programming: presenting code in human order | John D. Cook
• Give Some Ratpack Love to Your Spring Boot Application | DZone Integration
• Fixing the Constructor Anti-Pattern | DZone Java
• Avoidable Collection Mistakes in C# | Programmerisms
• A Primer on the React Ecosystem: Part 1 of 3 | Pattern Hatch
• Create WebPage Screenshots with Node.js and PhantomJS | David Walsh

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Getting durable, faster | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Wavelet image hash in Python | Full Stack ML
• Machine Learning Driven Programming: A New Programming for a New World | High Scalability
• Crash Course in Recurrent Neural Networks for Deep Learning | Machine Learning Mastery
• Volumetric Rendering | Alan Zucconi

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• WAL-based Estimates For When a Record Was Changed | End Point Blog
• Stream Windowing Performance Analysis: Concord and Spark Streaming | Concord

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker Containers on the Desktop | Jessie Frazelle

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 6, 2016 (#2281) | Morning Dew

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Startups, Career and Process

• Your job will never be done | Cindy Potvin
• You’re doing it wrong: Definition of Done | Gil Zilberfeld
• The Case for Lean: Oversight | DZone Agile
• Architecting Change as a Core Competency | DZone Agile
• Using cost of delay to determine schedule | Allan Kelly
• How to Scale the Scrum Product Owner | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Product Integration Testing at the Speed of Netflix | The Netflix Tech Blog
• CSS: The Perfect Print Stylesheet | NOUPE
• Developing Modern Applications with Scala: Testing | Java Code Geeks
• Ceylon Fat JARs | DZone Java
• Making Code Readable With Optional | DZone Java
• Turn Around. Don’t Use JPA’s loadgraph and fetchgraph Hints. Use SQL Instead. | DZone Java
• Some Thoughts on the Single Responsibility Principle | Java Code Geeks
• A Simple Way to Index Java Beans in Elasticsearch | Java Code Geeks
• How Functional Programming Will (Finally) Do Away With the GoF Patterns | DZone Java
• Why do we keep building rotten foundations? | Software Is Crap

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Increasing Resource Efficiency with Microscaling | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Zero Knowledge Proofs – A Primer | Jeremy Kun
• A Brief Primer on Linear Regression – Part III | KD Nuggets
• Massive study of chess games reveals how and why humans make mistakes | MIT Technology Review

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Applying TF-IDF algorithm in practice | Java Code Geeks
• Using Apache Spark SQL to Explore S&P 500, and Oil Stock Prices | Java Code Geeks

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 5, 2016 (#2280) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #143: The Referrer Header, Third-Party Scripts, & Color Psychology | Smashing Magazine

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Startups, Career and Process

• How to train your Agile | Dan North
• Mission Driven Founders | AVC
• The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers | Both Sides of the Table

Design and Development

• Algebraic patterns – Identity element | Badness 10.000
• CSS Instead of SVG: Creating, Animating, and Morphing Shapes | NOUPE
• How To Write a Custom Serializer with Jackson | Atomic Object
• SVG Slides and ‘Tweening’ in Javascript | Paul Hammant
• Thank you, Mr Pearson | Edmund Kirwan
• Abstract Factory | Ted Neward’s Blog
• How to lazy load entity properties with Hibernate | Vlad Mihalcea
• Microservices: The State of the Union | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS | Big Nerd Ranch
• Object Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks in the Keras Deep Learning Library | Machine Learning Mastery
• Building end-to-end dialogue systems using generative hierarchical neural network models | the morning paper
• Natural language understanding (almost) from scratch | the morning paper
• End-to-end learning of semantic role labeling using recurrent neural networks | the morning paper
• Text Mining 101: Topic Modeling | KD Nuggets
• What is Softmax Regression and How is it Related to Logistic Regression? | KD Nuggets
• Predict Sentiment From Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning | Machine Learning Mastery

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Durability in the real world | Ayende @ Rahien
• Election forecast tracker | Flowing Data
• Graphing all the music | Flowing Data
• Two Apache Jena SPARQL query performance observations | chem-bla-ics

Link Collections

• Programming Digest #166 for July 4, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter