There was not a lot of great stories over the weekend, but we still have a few. Paul Graham says you should be working on what doesn’t seem like work. This is really about doing the things that you love to do. Our friends at Stack Exchange continue to buck the open office trend with their private offices. Frank McSherry talks about the costs of scaling with some of the big data graph tools.

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

Career and Process

• You Want an Estimate? Give Me Odds. | DaedTech
• Why We (Still) Believe in Private Offices | Stack Exchange
• What Doesn’t Seem Like Work? | Paul Graham
• You Don’t Need a Bug Tracker | Web Builder Zone

Development

• How to create a pub/sub application with MongoDB ? Introduction | Java Code Geeks
• Scala snippets 4: Pimp my library pattern with type classes. | Java Code Geeks
• Structurizr: System Context Diagram as Code | Javalobby
• API Best Practices: Hypermedia (Part 2) | Javalobby
• New IntelliJ Tricks I Learnt Part 2 | Javalobby
• Why I write horrible code. (And so can you!) | Jay Bazuzi’s coding blog
• Everything You Need To Know About Default Methods | blog@CodeFX
• Concepts of Serialization | Java Code Geeks
• Why I Ditched Angular for React | Six Revisions
• What’s up with monomorphism? | Vyacheslav Egorov
• Little Orphan Impls | Baby Steps
• What’s Stopping Me Using Java8 Lambdas – Try Debugging Them | Rational Java
• How We Created Scalable UI – A Case Study | Javalobby
• Tutorial – Write a Shell in C | Stephen Brennan

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Voron vs. Esent | Ayende @ Rahien
• Scalability! But at what COST? | Frank McSherry

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• FAIR open sources deep-learning modules for Torch | Research at Facebook
• Genetic algorithm walkers | Flowing Data

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Lambda Architecture for Big Data | Javalobby

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Critical Vulnerability in Verizon Mobile API Compromising User Email Accounts | Randy Westergren

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• Cloud Applications: Migrate or Transform? | Javalobby