VentureBeat leads us off with a really cool plugin from Google for Chrome where you get a new piece of art on your new tab. Add some culture to your day and install it. Google also announced the end of Google Code. It is not terribly surprising but it is a little disappointing. I prefer to have multiple options instead of one huge player, GitHub, and one or two others like BitBucket. Steve Blank gives us a lengthy post on the fear of failure, especially in large corporations.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Google’s new Chrome extension serves up a fresh piece of art with each new tab you open | VentureBeat
- Bidding farewell to Google Code | Google Open Source Blog
Career and Process
- Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation | Steve Blank
- The 100% Utilization Myth | Javalobby
- Oracles Are About Problems, Not Correctness | Developsense Blog
Development
- Hibernate CascadeType.LOCK gotchas | Vlad Mihalcea
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to Modern Android Development: The Pitfalls and Cryptic Errors | Java Code Geeks
- Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 configuration comparison in Maven and Gradle | Java Code Geeks
- Yak Shaving is a Good Way to Improve an API | Java Code Geeks
- Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Web Application Project | Java Code Geeks
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Paper: Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores | High Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Estimation of Probability Distribution With Masked Autoencoder | The first cry of Atom
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- ELK: Using a Centralized Logging Architecture – Final Part | DZone
- Open-sourcing Pinball | Pinterest
- Do customers that integrate with Zapier have lower churn? | Zapier Engineering
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Introducing dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query distribution for optimal performance | PowerDNS
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Security Issue: Combining Bcrypt With Other Hash Functions | ircmaxell’s blog
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- New – Amazon CloudFront Signed Cookies for Private Content | AWS Official Blog
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1488 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – March 12, 2015 (#1973) | Morning Dew
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