Well, there was one really big story today, health insurer Anthem being hacked. A huge number of records with personal information. Definitely keep an eye on that story as it develops. Flowing Data gives us some more excellent data visualizations, one regarding the percentage female population in some other countries and one regarding the measles immunizations.

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

Top Stories

• US Health Insurer Anthem Hacked, 80 Million Records Stolen | The Next Web

Development

• Spring Environment is for initialization code only | Java Code Geeks
• Inconsistent operation widen rules in Java | Vanilla Java
• Controllers and Views in Go | Jon Calhoun
• AngularJs (Routing) Integration with Spring MVC | DZone
• Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism: A Practical Primer | Javalobby
• Microservices: Five Architectural Constraints | DZone
• Monads: From Web 2.0 to Hardware Drivers | Well-Typed
• Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools | Code as Craft
• Idempotence, Hysteresis and Determinism | S.Lott-Software Architect
• Best Practices for using Foundation with AngularJS | Raible Designs
• Introducing node-firefox | Mozilla Hacks
• Simplify Your Code | CodeOpinion
• You’re Missing the Point of Server-Side Rendered JavaScript Apps | Tom Dale

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare – Conclusions | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Why natural logs are natural for regression | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Where and why men outnumber women | Flowing Data
• Bigger data; same laptop | Frank McSherry
• DataLake | Martin Fowler
• Vaccination rate and measles outbreak simulation | Flowing Data
• Impala: a modern, open-source SQL engine for Hadoop | the morning paper

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Chef, Puppet, Heat, Juju, Docker, etc. | The Doctor What

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• CPU backdoors | Dan Luu

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• Cloud Integration Challenges and Solutions | Javalobby

Link Collections

• Quick links | Geeking with Greg
• Dew Drop – February 5, 2015 (#1948) | Morning Dew