Today we have a big pile of articles from the weekend. Google Ventures announces the availability of the design sprint site. Christian Heilmann talks about feeling like a fraud as he starts a new job. This is a good read for the rest of us whose resume does not look like Christian’s. On Javalobby there is an interesting read about using Git Flow and having immutable artifacts.

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

Career and Process

• Poor Vocabulary, Poor Conclusions, Poor Decisions | Javalobby
• Remote-First Communication for Project Teams | Atomic Spin
• I feel like a fraud – and that’s a good thing. | Christian Heilmann
• How Do I Prioritize Work? | Javalobby
• You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know | Javalobby

Development

• Git Flow and Immutable Build Artifacts | Javalobby
• Getting Started with Dropwizard: First Steps | Javalobby
• Getting API-Centric and Moving Beyond Integration | Javalobby
• Use Haskell for shell scripting | Haskell for all
• Swift Resistance | David Owens II
• Recent improvements to concurrent code in glibc | Red Hat Developer Blog
• The Serialization Proxy Pattern | Java Code Geeks
• Some notes on Rust, the language. | Lambda the Ultimate
• Using common table expressions to solve the “eight queens” problem in SQL | Andreas Dewes

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How to define performance requirements? | Java Code Geeks
• Microbenchmarking with JMH: Measure, Don’t Guess! | Javalobby
• Efficient transformation of Adjacency Matrix using cache optimized C++ code | Karim Ouda
• The Four Horsemen of the Performance Apocalypse | The Hacks of Life

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Disappearing data projections | John D. Cook
• Why unsupervised learning is more robust to adversarial distortions | KD Nuggets
• Bigram frequencies for Emacs key chords | John D. Cook
• Applying Eigenvalues to the Fibonacci Problem | Scott Sievert

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• How-To: Setup Development Environment for Hadoop MapReduce | Javalobby
• MySQL Performance Implications of InnoDB Isolation Modes | Javalobby

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• Managing Content? Start with Metadata | CMS Wire

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• The Winding Road to DevOps Maturity | Javalobby

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Signing in to websites with SSH | Vents that Look Like Faces
• Everything you wanted to know about Kubernetes but were afraid to ask | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Air-Gapped Computers Can Be Compromised Using EM Side-Channel Attacks, Says Researchers | TripWire

Other stuff

• Google Ventures Introduces Design Sprint Site for Startups | The Next Web
• Why Corporations Could Get Higher Returns Than VCs | R World

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – January 30, 2015 (#1944) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1466 | A Fresh Cup