We start with Seth Godin talking about sunk costs, but more in the personal decisions space. Mozilla brings us a post about NetGain and the open internet. There are two startup related articles, but they can really apply to almost any business. First, Martin Buberl tells us why every startup should have a culture manifesto. If you have ever worked in a small company or startup, you will realize how critical culture is. And Geoff Ralston talks about startup priorities and how to calculate their importance.

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

Top Stories

• The truth about sunk costs | Seth Godin
• A Watershed Moment to Protect the Free and Open Web | The Mozilla Blog

Career and Process

• Aggregation of Indignities | DaedTech
• Coaching Retrospectives – Starting Off Right! | DZone
• Why every startup should have a culture manifesto | Martin Buberl
• Startup Priorities | Geoff Ralston

Development

• Building a REST Service in Scala with Akka HTTP, Akka Streams and Reactive Mongo | Javalobby
• Composing a domain workflow with statically checked invariants | Ruminations of a Programmer

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• New open source tools for measuring cloud performance | Google Cloud Platform Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Scaling Vehicle Routing with Nearby Selection | Javalobby

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• R: Weather vs attendance at NoSQL meetups | Mark Needham
• Human brain size compared to animals’ | Flowing Data
• Sahale: Visualizing Cascading Workflows at Etsy | Code as Craft

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Cluster Your Service with the ConfigurationAdmin and Apache Karaf Cellar | Javalobby

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• One-Bit To Rule Them All: Bypassing Windows’ 10 Protections using a Single Bit | Breaking Malware
• Facebook Launches ThreatExchange to Battle Security Issues | The Next Web

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 11, 2015 (#1952) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1473 | A Fresh Cup
• Code Project articles | John D. Cook