There was some good news today that is a little outside of the typical development articles. Google introduced Google Cast for audio, think of this as Chromecast for speakers. High Scalability had a really interesting article about some of the early computers. Lastly, Dish announced SlingTV, one of the first real TV streaming services from a major player that does not need a full subscription.

Enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Introducing Google Cast for audio | Google Chrome Blog
• Von Neumann had one piece of advice for us: not to originate anything. | High Scalability
• Dish Announces Sling TV, a $20/Month TV Streaming Service | The Next Web

Career and Process

• Why you should pay developers to learn | Vlad Mihalcea’s Blog
• Continuous Improvement in Scrum: Peer Feedback | Javalobby
• Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers | Andreas Zwinkau
• What most young programmers need to learn | Joost’s Dev Blog
• Cathedrals, Bazaars, and In Between | Third Bit

Development

• A reactive Spray + Akka solution to “Playing with concurrency and performance in Java and Node.js” | Java Code Geeks
• Admitting Defeat On K&R in LCTHW | Zed A. Shaw
• Infrastructure as Code Software | Nolan Davidson
• Monoids, Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: 10 Main Ideas | Monad Madness
• An example of preparatory refactoring | Martin Fowler
• Stream-Powered Collections Functionality in JDK 8 | Inspired by Actual Events
• Technical interviews and the Towers of Hanoi | SETJMP

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Rising R usage in the sciences | Flowing Data

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• Why You Need to Move Your Data Center to a Software-Defined Paradigm | Javalobby
• New EC2 Spot Instance Termination Notices | AWS Official Blog
• S3 Distributed Version Restore | Climate Science & Engineering

Other stuff

• Nvidia unveils Tegra X1 ‘mobile superchip’ | VentureBeat

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1455 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – January 5, 2015 (#1926) | Morning Dew