TechCrunch has a great post on the “hidden” cofounders, basically significant others. More interestingly, TechCrunch has had a roll of insightful posts lately in addition to the pile of tech “news”. In other stories, Pinterest tells us a little about how they scale some parts of their infrastructure. Seeing how sites scale things is always fascinating. Lastly, take a look at all three of the posts in the security section below. They are all very interesting reads.

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

Top Stories

• The Hidden Co-Founder | TechCrunch

Career and Process

• Sprint Retrospective – Doing It the Right Way! | Javalobby
• The Hiring Post | Quarrelsome
• The Data | The Programmer’s Paradox
• The thing killing open-source is the people | Shruubi

Development

• Declarative vs. Imperative Programming for the Web | Code Nugget
• Reactive User Interfaces | Percolate Studio
• Writing a code coverage tool | Ismail Badawi
• Do it in Java 8: Recursive lambdas | Javalobby
• Building a HATEOAS Hypermedia RESTful Record Store Web Service with Spring | Javalobby
• The Cost of Code Reuse Abuse | Javalobby
• REST API Evolution | Java Code Geeks
• Interacting With SVG | Croscon
• 9 truths that computer programmers know that most people don’t. | Macleod Sawyer
• ExecutorService vs ExecutorCompletionService in Java | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Serving configuration data at scale with high availability | Making Pinterest

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Neo4j: TF/IDF (and variants) with cypher | Mark Needham
• Data Maven from Crunchzilla: A light introduction to statistics | Geeking with Greg

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Running PageRank Hadoop job on AWS Elastic MapReduce | Java Code Geeks
• Combining the power of R and D3.js | AE Blog
• ELK: Using a Centralized Logging Architecture (Part 1) | Javalobby

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Linux Loadable Kernel Module Basics | Georgi

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• TLS in HTTP/2 | daniel.haxx.se
• Bootkit Disk Forensics – Part 2 | MalwareTech
• Data and Goliath’s Big Idea | Schneier on Security

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 6, 2015 (#1969) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1484 | A Fresh Cup