Leading off today, MIT News announces that Michael Stonebraker wins the Turing Award. He is one of the leading database researchers and the award is probably overdue. Valeria Maltoni, writing at Conversation Agent, talks about taking good advice, not just listening to it. There are a lot of development articles today as well. In particular, the Dart team decided to focus on compiling to JavaScript instead of trying to make Dart work in all of the browsers. With the coming updates to JavaScript, this could be an interesting development.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Career and Process
- When Will We Complete Our Agile Transformation? | Javalobby
- Taking Good Advice | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- If We’re in a Bubble, What Should An Entrepreneur Do? | Benjamin J Gilbert
Development
- Avoid Perpetuating These Things In Your Code | Java Code Geeks
- Golang Internals (Part 3): The Linker, Object Files, and Relocations | Javalobby
- Media Query Sass Mixin | Architects Zone
- Why Johnny Can’t Do Test Driven Development | Javalobby
- Automatic promotion of artifacts to Maven Central from Gradle | Java Code Geeks
- Why is it so difficult to write valid “tar” commands from memory? | Dan Tilden
- A unikernel experiment: A VM for every URL | Magnus Skjegstad
- Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger | Facebook
- CompletableFuture can’t be interrupted | Java Code Geeks
- A Go Gotcha: When Closures and Goroutines Collide | CloudFlare
- Dart for the Entire Web | Dart News & Updates
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- A Memory Leak Caused by Dynamic Creation of log4j Loggers | Javalobby
- The Convergence that Changes Everything: Data Gravity + Containers + Microservices | High Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Topic Modelling: Working out the optimal number of topics | Mark Needham
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- jOOQ vs. Hibernate: When to Choose Which | Java Code Geeks
- Gender gaps around the world | Flowing Data
Fun and Other stuff
- From Quantified Self to Wearables – Why? | Javalobby
- Should you put coffee in your face right now? | I Love Coffee
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1493 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – March 25, 2015 (#1981) | Morning Dew
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