As always, the weekend brings us a lot of information. First, Brad Feld talks about CEOs having anxiety attacks. Anxiety, stress and depression are rampant in startups and fairly common in our industry. Brad Feld is one of the few that talks through all of this. Threatpost lets us know that all major browsers fell during Pwn2Own. This is expected and probably a good thing as security holes get found, and hopefully fixed, in a public forum. Also, on JavaLobby, Mike Cottmeyer talks about your job and trying to think outside the box. He uses an idea from The Matrix and says “bend the spoon”, although I am partial to saying “there is no spoon”.

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

Top Stories

• If I’m A CEO And Have An Anxiety Attack, What Should I Do? | Feld Thoughts

Career and Process

• Bend the Spoon | Javalobby
• Human feedback: why bug reports are easier than feature suggestions | Malcolm Ocean

Development

• Getting Started With Activiti and Spring Boot | Javalobby
• Declarative web applications with Polymer’s two-way data-binding | Futurice
• Displaying Paths in Ant | Inspired by Actual Events
• Getting Under The Hood | Gavin Draper
• Out of the Tar Pit | Adrian Colyer
• Microservice Hybrids and Alternatives | Javalobby
• The 7 Pains of Developing Mobile Apps (and How to Solve Them) | Java Code Geeks
• Python: Simplifying the creation of a stop word list with defaultdict | Mark Needham
• Can’t even throw code across the wall – on open sourcing existing code | Juho Snellman
• Friday Q&A 2015-03-20: Preprocessor Abuse and Optional Parentheses | Mike Ash
• How Long Did I Sleep Last Night? Using Cordova, HealthKit, and JavaScript, and a Handful of Promises | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Cache Line Aliasing #2, or “What happens when you page align everything” | Adrian Chadd’s Ramblings
• Running Kafka At Scale | LinkedIn Engineering

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Traffic gridlock simulation | Flowing Data
• In Memory OLT P (Memory Optimizer Table) In SQL 2014 | Javalobby
• One Direction Relationships in Neo4j | Javalobby
• Out-of-state commuters mapped | Flowing Data
• Choosing a Good Sharding Key in MongoDB (and MySQL) | Javalobby

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1 | Matt Williams

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• All Major Browsers Fall At Pwn2Own Day Two | Threatpost
• Complexity is the bugdoor’s friend | Kryptos Logic Research

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes | Google Cloud Platform

Fun and Other stuff

• Non-Linking URLs Seen As Links | Blind Five Year Old
• The Need for Care With “Thoughtcrime” | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1491 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – March 20, 2015 (#1978) | Morning Dew