Lots of news today. First, Louis Gray talks about the closure of FriendFeed, the best social community I have ever been a part of. Some features from FriendFeed eventually made it into Facebook, but the community will never be the same. GigaOm, a top tech news site, is closing its doors. This is a shame because they did not just regurgitate the same tech “news” and tried to add some analysis of things. Losing a major site like this is very disappointing. Unless you were hiding from the internet, you heard Apple announcing and releasing things. I am not listing most of that, but I did find the ResearchKit announcement to be very interesting. It is definitely something to keep an eye on. Last, but definitely not least, Google Cloud Platform talks about some tutorials on Khan Academy and Codecademy to help people learn how to code. This is in conjunction with their #FutureCoders push.

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

Top Stories

• #FutureCoders: Inspiring the next generation of female coders | Google Cloud Platform
• FriendFeed’s Closure Another Painful Loss from a Vibrant Era of Social Media | Louis Gray
• Apple Announces ResearchKit For Medical Research | The Next Web
• Tech news site Gigaom is closing its doors | VentureBeat

Career and Process

• The Power of Questions in Artifact Design | Javalobby
• Our Programs Are Fun To Use | Coding Horror
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 2, Inception | Endjin
• The Shallow Dive into Chaos | Liz Keogh

Development

• Async Abstractions using rx-java | Javalobby
• Dropwizard, MongoDB and Gradle Experimenting | Javalobby
• Designing a Flexible Mean Stack Architecture | Architects Zone
• Boiling React Down to a Few Lines of jQuery | Hackflow
• Easier website development with Web Components and JSON-LD | Google Webmaster Central
• Golang Internals (Part 1): Main Concepts and Project Structure | Javalobby
• If State Is Hell, SOA Is Satan | Javalobby
• Better Dependency Management for Gradle | Javalobby
• JDK 8 Streams and Grouping | Inspired by Actual Events
• Sass Mixins vs Extends: The Data | Belly Card Engineering

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• AppLovin: Marketing to Mobile Consumers Worldwide by Processing 30 Billion Requests a Day | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Machine learning and magic | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Hadoop User Metrics Unleashed | Javalobby
• ELK: Using a Centralized Logging Architecture (Part 2) | Javalobby

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges | Project Zero

Fun and Other stuff

• Lint For Math | Godel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 9, 2015 (#1970) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1485 | A Fresh Cup