Some very cool news today, Raspberry Pi 2 is announced and stays the same price but is a big upgrade. Seth Godin drops some genius, but the money quote is in the last line, “if you fail to invest the time and effort to find a better path, it’s unlikely you’ll find one.” On Javalobby, there is a good feature comparison of Dropwizard and Spring Boot. I know that Java is not all startup-hotness, but it probably still retains a huge amount of the enterprise mindshare. Lastly, Google announces Google Cloud Logging which can utilize Big Query. We can’t say this is a challenger to New Relic and other tools like it, but it is yet another solid offering from Google.

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

Top Stories

• Raspberry Pi 2 gets 6x the power, 2x the memory and still costs $35 | GigaOm
• The productivity pyramid (give yourself a promotion) | Seth Godin

Career and Process

• The Rapid Software Testing Namespace | Developsense Blog
• You Aren’t Doing Scrum If… | Javalobby
• You Need Feature Teams to Produce Features | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant

Development

• Resource Injection vs. Dependency Injection Explained! | Javalobby
• Dropwizard vs Spring Boot – A Comparison Matrix | Javalobby
• Is Refactoring a “Needless Rework”? | Javalobby
• TDD Is A Tool, Not A Religion | Thomas Bandt
• Destructuring and Recursion in ES6 | Raganwald
• Transitioning to SCSS at Scale | Code as Craft
• Testing AngularJS Applications | Raible Designs

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Marco Arment Uses Go Instead of PHP and Saves Money by Cutting the Number of Servers in Half | High Scalability

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Your street name across the country | Flowing Data
• Setting up sharded mongodb cluster in localhost | Java, JVM and beyond

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Gain business and operational insight into your applications using Google Cloud Logging | Google Cloud Platform Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Analysis Of An Interesting Windows Kernel Change Mitigating Vulnerabilities In Some Security Products | GreyHatHacker
• A security policy framework to help companies unlock the power of the cloud | LinkedIn Engineering

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 2, 2015 (#1945) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1467 | A Fresh Cup