Today we have a good article on becoming an engineering manager from TechCrunch. Liz Keogh wrote an interesting post on using scenarios for experiment design. For some reason we had to open source releases of code search and analysis tools, Kythe from Google and Hound from Etsy on the Code as Craft blog.

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

Career and Process

• Becoming An Engineering Manager | TechCrunch
• Technical Debt: Is Management Only Getting Half the Picture? | Javalobby
• Startup Lesson Learned: Technology Doesn’t Matter | Thomas Bandt

Development

• Java8 Lambdas: Sorting Performance Pitfall EXPLAINED | Java Code Geeks
• Detecting Redundant Tests | Paul Hammant
• Sequences and Generators | Episteme and Techne
• How to Improve the Resource Timing API | Javalobby
• Microservice Registration and Discovery with Spring Cloud and Netflix’s Eureka | Javalobby
• Best Practice for Creating Custom Elements | Broken Links
• Kythe: a new approach to making developer tools | Google Open Source Blog
• What the Flux? | Jonathan Creamer
• Java 8 Optional is not just for replacing a null value | Vanilla Java
• Announcing Hound: A Lightning Fast Code Search Tool | Code as Craft
• Boot: Getting Started With Clojure In < 10 Minutes | jjmojojjmojo: In Effect

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Reason for Slower Reading of Large Lines in JDK 7 and JDK 8 | Inspired by Actual Events
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• More data, less accuracy | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Snow depth by dogs | Flowing Data
• NoSQL With Hibernate OGM – Part One: Persisting Your First Entities | Javalobby
• Netflix’s Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards | The Netflix Tech Blog

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Setting Environment Variables for Docker with Fig | Javalobby
• Development Horror Story – Release Nightmare | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger | Securelist
• long term support considered harmful | tedunangst.com

Other stuff

• Using Scenarios for Experiment Design | Liz Keogh, lunivore
• Demystifying SEO with experiments | Making Pinterest

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – January 27, 2015 (#1941) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1464 | A Fresh Cup