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.

• Big Data Needs a Better Network | Javalobby
• Healthcare Reform and Application Performance Monitoring | Javalobby
• 6 reasons your REST API must come with a client | SILOTA
• Ants Swarm Like Brains Think | Issue 12: Feedback – Nautilus
• Using BDD with web-services: a tutorial using JBehave and Thucydides | Javalobby
• More control over your Cloud SQL database with point-in-time recovery and custom flags | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Skype Makes Group Video Calling Free on Windows, Mac, Xbox One | The Next Web
• JavaScript Unit Tests and Code Coverage Tracking using Venus.js | Javalobby
• Lawmaking Through the House and Senate Visualized | FlowingData
• Introducing JCG Academy – Get schooled by the Java Code Geeks | Java Code Geeks
• How To Tell If Someone Hacked Your Computer, Email Accounts, Gmail | BGR
• I’m a Man and I Write Code | We Write Code
• OhmData C5: an improved HBase | myNoSQL
• How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency | High Scalability
• Web SQL Database: In Memoriam | Read the Tea Leaves
• Follow up to the investigation results | GitHub
• Disney researchers create 3D printed speakers that can take any shape | GigaOm
• Dew Drop – April 28, 2014 (#1764) | Morning Dew
• Why One Giant Source Control Repository Is Bad for You (and Facebook) | DBlock.org
• Straw-Based Filament Could Drive Down The Cost Of 3D Printing | TechCrunch
• Go is boring | aerokode.com
• Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers | Featherweight Musings
• DevOps: The Last Great Hope for Application Security? | Javalobby
• Java EE: The Basics | Javalobby
• A neuromorphic-computing ‘roadmap’ | KurzweilAI
• How we scaled Freshdesk before we decided to shard our database | Freshdesk Blog

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