Two fairly big announcements for today. Apple releases Swift 1.2, which hopefully makes some developers happier. Google decides to move to HTTP/2 and away from SPDY. Much of the SPDY improvements are part of HTTP/2, so this is probably a good thing. There are a few good articles in the performance section below, all of them are worth a solid review.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY | Chromium Blog
- Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta | Apple Developer Blog
Career and Process
- Startups, A Rich Man’s Game | TechCrunch
- The Trap of Enterprise Requirements | Javalobby
Development
- How to speed up your Gradle build from 90 to 8 minutes | Blog for coding addicts
- Writing Groovy’s groovy.util.Node (XmlParser) Content as XML | Inspired by Actual Events
- The “Web Application” Myth | Christian Heilmann
- The API Gateway Pattern: Angular JS and Spring Security Part IV | Javalobby
- Variables and scoping in ECMAScript 6 | 2ality
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- How JVMTI tagging can affect GC pauses | Java Code Geeks
- Vinted Architecture: Keeping a busy portal stable by deploying several hundred times per day | High Scalability
- Apache Cassandra and Low-Latency Applications | Java Code Geeks
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics | Rondam Ramblings
- A Better Reading List With Mathematica | Higher Order
- In defence of the P-value | Scientist Sees Squirrel
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Competitive Intelligence Analysis-Best Tools, Reports, Metrics | Avinash Kaushik
- Hibernate locking patterns – How does OPTIMISTIC_FORCE_INCREMENT Lock Mode work | Vlad Mihalcea’s Blog
- Customers & Partners Reimagine their Data with MarkLogic 8 | MarkLogic
- Professor ratings by gender and discipline | Flowing Data
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Docker orchestration | Christian Barra
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
IaaS, PaaS and Saas
- Cloud Computing: Pets, Cattle and… Chickens? | Javalobby
Other stuff
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1471 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – February 9, 2015 (#1950) | Morning Dew
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