Leading off today is Microsoft announcing support for asm.js to the Windows 10 JavaScript engine. Traditionally, IE performance around JavaScript, JSON and XML has been lagging the other browsers, so this could be some good news. Ayende @ Rahien brings us another installment of his performance series, this one focusing on the performance affects of unnecessary deserialization. Continuing with the performance information, High Scalability lets everyone know about a free book about parallel programming. If you have real issues with performance in a large application, this will be a good book to pick up.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Career and Process
- Very Short Blog Posts (25): Testers Don’t Break the Software | Developsense Blog
- Successful Mobile Teams | Testmunk Blog
Development
- Determining File Types in Java | Inspired by Actual Events
- Exception Handling in Spring REST Web Service | Javalobby
- Spocklight: Capture and Assert System Output | Javalobby
- Managing files with Node.js and MongoDB GridFS | Robert Onodi
- Building for Android Wear: Depth and Flexibility | Android Developers Blog
- Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10 | IEBlog
- Introducing TaskRouter | Twilio
- Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android | Facebook Code
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: JSON & Structs in Voron | Ayende @ Rahien
- A Microscope on Microservices | The Netflix Tech Blog
- Free Book: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? | High Scalability
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Loading Data and Basic Formatting in R | Flowing Data
- Deciding On Graphs: Four Questions | Javalobby
- Hadoop Toolbox: When to Use What | SmartData Collective
- MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop | Google Open Source Blog
- Embrace the Log – The Onyx Distributed System Dashboard | Lucas Bradstreet
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- HTTP/2 is Done | Mark Nottingham
Other stuff
- Smarter multicore chips | MIT News
- Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites | Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – February 18, 2015 (#1957) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1475 | A Fresh Cup
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