This installment starts with more genius from Seth Godin. Mozilla announces a science lab fellowship. And High Scalability shows us what scale really means when looking at Amazon AWS.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Failure imagined (24 variations) | Seth Godin
• Announcing the Mozilla Science Lab Fellowship Program | The Mozilla Blog

Career and Process

• Reactive vs. Proactive | The Programmer’s Paradox
• I Am Proposing “Refactor Fridays” | Geekregator
• On professionalism in software | Jakewins
• Does Agile Work Because We are Optimistic? | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant

Development

• Using Google Guava Cache for local caching | Java, JVM and beyond
• jQuery versus React.js thinking | my daily grind
• A note on pre and post conditions | nil/recur
• Working with GZIP and compressed data | Java Code Geeks
• What’s new in CSS Selectors 4 | grack
• Android Unit Testing Part I: What Makes Strong Test Automation | Javalobby
• Java 8 Stream and Lambda Expressions – Parsing File Example | Javalobby
• Why parser generator tools are (mostly) useless in static analysis | BugBlog
• Java 8: No more loops | Dead Code Rising
• Fail-fast validations using Java 8 streams | Java Code Geeks
• Errors are values | The Go Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Fast, Scalable Networking in Go with Mangos | Brave New Geek
• The Stunning Scale of AWS and What it Means for the Future of the Cloud | High Scalability
• First rule of performance optimisation | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Monte Carlo method, calculating Pi | Maciej A. Czyzewski
• What Happened to Old School NLP? | languagengine
• Fundamental methods of Data Science: Classification, Regression And Similarity Matching | KD Nuggets
• Deep Learning in a Nutshell – what it is, how it works, why care? | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big | Avinash Kaushik
• A beginner’s guide to Java Persistence locking | Vlad Mihalcea’s Blog
• Deploy Elasticsearch on Google Compute Engine | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• SQL, Scaling, and What’s Unique About Postgres | CitusDB

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Going Rogue with PaaS: Bringing Shadow IT into the Light | Javalobby

Other stuff

• PayPal lets merchants hand-tailor credit options for their customers | VentureBeat

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1459 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – January 12, 2015 (#1931) | Morning Dew