Today we get an announcement from Google about the introduction of Google Cloud Storage Nearline. It is quite interesting to see Google and Amazon fight this battle. DaedTech brings us an interesting post regarding the curse of knowledge. All developers know this issue, you start explaining an issue to someone but there is so much assumed knowledge when the conversation starts. It is a gift to be able to avoid this consistently. Also, please note that the performance section below is full of good articles again today. High Scalability, Netflix, LinkedIn and siddontang have some really interesting information for us.

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

Top Stories

• Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline: (near)online data at an offline price | Google Cloud Platform

Career and Process

• Lifting the Curse of Knowledge | DaedTech

Development

• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter One | Javalobby
• What is good code? A scientific definition. | Intent HQ Engineering blog
• Shipping Side Projects | Slashie
• Test Collection Implementations with Guava | Java Code Geeks
• dependency injection – a functional way | getting sharper

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Cassandra Migration to EC2 | High Scalability
• Can Spark Streaming survive Chaos Monkey? | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Scaling the collection of self-service metrics | LinkedIn Engineering
• Build up a High Availability Distributed Key-Value Store | siddontang

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Efficient WebGL stroking | Hyperandroid
• Extremely small probabilities | John D. Cook
• Automatic topic-modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation | Intent HQ Engineering blog
• Deeper Content Analysis with Aspects: Interest Graph grows beyond Topics | Prismatic

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Multi-layered storytelling with visualization | Flowing Data
• Finding interesting computer sciency people to follow on Twitter | Mark Needham
• Delta Architectures: Unifying the Lambda Architecture and leveraging Storm from Hadoop/REST | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Introducing the “rhel-tools” for RHEL Atomic Host | Red Hat Developer Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Another round of image bugs: PNG and JPEG XR | lcamtuf’s blog

Fun and Other stuff

• Unblocking resources with Webmaster Tools | Google Webmaster Central
• For What’s Next: the new Chromebook Pixel and USB Type-C | Google Chrome Blog

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1487 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – March 11, 2015 (#1972) | Morning Dew