Career stagnation is a threat for a lot of developers, and my favorite recruiter has some good advice at Job Tips For Geeks. If you like math and Alan Turing, there is an interesting post about some of his work when he was only 15. Lastly, make sure you check out the link collections at the bottom of every post. I can’t find everything worth sharing and those collections really help fill in some gaps.
Enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Career and Process
- Bad Communication is Killing Your Product and Growth | frontapp blog
- Forketing | Nis Frome
- Career Stagnation – Early Detection and Treatment | Job Tips For Geeks
Development
- Notes On Automated Acceptance Testing (from the Continuous Delivery book) | The Holy Java
- Save Time with Easy Maps API Integration from Java and Python | Google Geo Developers Blog
- Maya – A DSL for math and numerical work | Pizza For Thought
- Dependency Injection Pitfalls in Spring | Javalobby
- Diagnose Service Performance Bottlenecks with Google Cloud Trace Beta | Google Cloud Platform Blog
- Integrating Node.js, Ruby and Spring with Okta’s SAML Support | Raible Designs
- Omnipresent, Infallible, Omnipotent and Instantaneous Build Technologies | Paul Hammant’s blog
- Is This Problem Worth Solving? | DaedTech
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Make Services Fault Tolerant & Supportable for Production Use | Javalobby
- Adaptive Heap Sizing | Architects Zone
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Building a Recommendation Engine | Assembly Blog
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Japan fertility rate forecasts versus reality | Flowing Data
- How to Configure MySQL Metastore for Hive? | Javalobby
- Apache Samza: LinkedIn’s Stream Processing engine | LinkedIn Engineering
- Turning 30, explained with charts | Flowing Data
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- How to Measure the Decentralization of Bitcoin | Daniel Larimer
IaaS, PaaS and Saas
- ClassicLink – Private Communication Between Classic EC2 Instances & VPC Resources | AWS Official Blog
Other stuff
- Young Alan Turing and the Arctangent | The Angry Statistician
- Someone else had your idea first | Aaron Harris
- Map of Life: A preview of how to evaluate species conservation with Google Earth Engine | Google Research Blog
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – January 8, 2015 (#1929) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1457 | A Fresh Cup
Regular Geek 
Robert, just a quick note to say I like this new format (i.e. the categories). I’ve been following your blog for a while now and while I know it’s more work, but this layout is much easier to scan and read…
Thanks and thanks for the great links!
greg
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Greg
Thanks for letting me know, I always appreciate the feedback. Once I was able to script some things, it was not that bad 🙂 Of course, now I want to add features to my script.
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