We start the week with some awesomeness from XKCD’s What If series, this one about snow removal. I figured that we have all had dreams of faster ways to get rid of the snow. Sam Altman gives us some excellent startup advice. Lastly, Think Faster tells us why rockstar developers don’t ask for help, or more specifically they try to figure things out first before asking.

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

Top Stories

• Snow Removal | XKCD What If
• Startup advice, briefly | Sam Altman

Career and Process

• Learn from failure, find your value | emson
• Why Rockstar Developers Don’t Ask For Help | Think Faster
• The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup | Tomasz Tunguz
• 39+ tips for building a startup after 15 years of success and failure | Chris Saad

Development

• How to secure Jersey REST services with Spring Security and Basic authentication | Java Code Geeks
• Retry-After HTTP Header in Practice | Javalobby
• Stateless tokens with JWT | Jonatan Nilsson
• How to: Refine Hive ZooKeeper Lock Manager Implementation | Java Code Geeks
• AppFuse 3.5 Released! | Raible Designs
• Breaking Data Out of the Enterprise, Part 1 | payne.io
• Building Building Blocks | Segment
• Spring Roo – Fast Spring Java Application Development Tool | Javalobby
• Contributing to Chromium: an illustrated guide | Monica Dinculescu

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance report: Optimizing Compare, The circle of life (post-mortem) | Ayende @ Rahien

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• How to Analyze Highly Dynamic Datasets with Apache Drill | Java Code Geeks
• Top 1% earners versus bottom 90% | Flowing Data
• Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript | wtf Blog

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Defining DevOps | Javalobby
• Docker Containers on the Desktop | Jessie Frazelle’s Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Experimenting with Honeypots Using The Modern Honey Network | Lenny Zeltser
• Exploiting the Superfish certificate | Errata Security

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• EC2 Container Service (ECS) Update – Access Private Docker Repos & Mount Volumes in Containers | AWS Official Blog

Other stuff

• What I’ve Learned After 15 Years as a Java Group Leader | Job Tips For Geeks
• IoT is Missing the “O” | Javalobby

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1477 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – February 20, 2015 (#1959) | Morning Dew