Some really cool advanced topics today. Over at 0 FPS, we have a continuing tutorial on collision detection. Syntopia gives us path tracing 3D fractals, and we all know that fractals are cool. Lastly, pyimagesearch shows us how to find the distance of an object from a camera using python.

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

Career and Process

• 12 Things You NEED For Cracking The Coding Interview | Simple Programmer

Development

• Use copy paste programming! | Java Code Geeks
• Spring and Angular JS: A Secure Single Page Application | Javalobby
• Microservices in the Enterprise: Friend or Foe? | Javalobby
• Infinite Loops. Or: Anything that Can Possibly Go Wrong, Does. | Javalobby
• 10 Useful Guidelines and Filters for AngularJS | Web Builder Zone
• How Browserify Works | Ben Clinkinbeard
• Java Lambdas and Low Latency | Vanilla Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Improving lock performance in Java | Java Code Geeks
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Etags and evil code, Part I | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Collision detection (part 2) | 0 FPS
• Path Tracing 3D Fractals | Syntopia
• Loading data in Torch (is a mess) | FastML
• Find distance from camera to object using Python and OpenCV | pyimagesearch

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Feeling hot, hot, hot | Flowing Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Key Concepts of Kubernetes | Java Code Geeks

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2 | AWS Official Blog

Other stuff

• Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering | O’Reilly Radar
• Flotilla Simplifies Electronics Tinkering – Just Add Pi | TechCrunch
• Organization-approved applications | GitHub

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1461 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – January 19, 2015 (#1935) | Morning Dew