Today we lead off with a post from Dave Winer at Scripting News. It is not really about reporters, but more about making applications simpler to use. Admin Ofunne has a good post regarding when to scale. The main point is that if you have done this long enough, you start making applications fairly complex in the beginning without knowing if you really need to. Lastly, the Android Developers Blog announced some new tools to help with game development.

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

Top Stories

• Every reporter should be able to start a blog | Scripting News

Career and Process

• How much does your manager need to know? | allan kelly
• The New Agile – Decisions, Decisions | Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings
• A good problem to have: When scaling an application destroy creativity | Adim Ofunne

Development

• Journey to idempotency and temporal decoupling | Java Code Geeks
• Balanced Abstraction Principle | Java Code Geeks
• That ain’t going to take you anywhere | Ayende @ Rahien
• Introduction to the React JavaScript Framework | Javalobby
• C++: Towards better error reporting with Fit and Clang | Paul Fultz II
• BeckDesignRules | Martin Fowler
• Codehaus: The Once Great House of Code Has Fallen | Inspired by Actual Events
• Build Binaries Only Once for Continuous Deployment | Java Code Geeks
• New Tools to Supercharge Your Games on Google Play | Android Developers Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Speeding Up ActiveMQ Persistent Messaging Performance by 25x | Javalobby
• The Architecture of Algolia’s Distributed Search Network | High Scalability
• Minor GC vs Major GC vs Full GC | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Large-Scale Machine Learning for Drug Discovery | Google Research

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres | Rob Conery
• Using MongoDB with Hadoop & Spark: Part 2 – Hive Example | Javalobby
• How to Use SQL PIVOT To Compare Two Tables in Your Database | Javalobby
• jOOQ vs. Slick – Pros and Cons of Each Approach | Java Code Geeks

Other stuff

• Graphemes | John D. Cook
• Let’s make APIs Groovy-er! | Restlet

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 2, 2015 (#1965) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1481 | A Fresh Cup