I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• How Can Batching Requests Actually Reduce Latency? | High Scalability
• Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework | Funny Ant
• Scryer: Netflix’s Predictive Auto Scaling Engine – Part 2 | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Agile is not for you IF | Java Code Geeks
• Analytics = Most Desirable Skill (And Largest Talent Gap) For 2014 | The Future Buzz
• Intuit Agrees To Acquire Small Business Document Startup Docstoc | TechCrunch
• A Brief Introduction to Urbit | Sensemaking
• At 400,000 Years, Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries | New York Times
• Squeezing more light in could lead to fiber optic cables that carry 10 times more data | GigaOm
• Monetate takes an extra $8M to power holiday shopping online | VentureBeat
• This Scientist Uses The New York Times Archive To Eerily, Accurately Predict The Future | Co.Exist
• What I learned from funding 55 companies in 16 months with $10M | What I Learned Building
• Tuning MongoDB Performance with MMS | myNoSQL
• The Daily Six Pack: December 5, 2013
• Reflections on a Day of Mob Programming | Javalobby
• Better Package Management | nvie.com
• Immutable Collections performance – Ayende @ Rahien
• Wiring-in-the-Large: The Missing Technology for Java Cloud Applications | Java Code Geeks
• Dew Drop – December 5, 2013 (#1677) | Morning Dew
• Sorrow and Elation – Why Reflection Isn’t Always Your Friend – Diary Of A Ninja
• WAIT: synchronous replication for Redis – Antirez weblog
• Appsec’s Agile Problem | Building Real Software

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.