Mostly unpleasant news to lead our day. Zynga is now facing a lawsuit regarding potential fraud tied to its IPO. This could be interesting because it could make things a little harder for later IPOs. Slack reports that their user database was hacked. Thankfully, it does not sound like any confidential information was stolen.

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

Top Stories

• Zynga must face U.S. lawsuit alleging fraud tied to IPO | Reuters
• Slack discloses its user database was hacked, but only after turning on two-factor authentication | VentureBeat

Career and Process

• Salary Negotiations: Win by Losing | DaedTech
• What is BDD? | Liz Keogh
• Enterprise Agile or Agile Enterprise? | Javalobby
• Our Agile Transformation Metaphors are Broken | Javalobby
• Agile, Lean, Patterns: Waterfall works when…. | allan kelly
• Moving To The Pull Request Workflow & Integrating Quality Engineers For Better Software Quality | Javalobby
• Identifying an Agile Transformation Scorecard | Javalobby

Development

• Introducing Fresco: A new image library for Android | Facebook Code
• The 7th Principle of Redis: We Optimize for Joy | Javalobby
• Using Google Protocol Buffers with Spring MVC-based REST Services | Javalobby
• 6 Python Performance Tips | Javalobby
• Simple, Real And Bug-Free Foundation Development | Smashing Magazine
• How we automate interlinking apps at Hailo, a real MF (Meta Framework) | Hailo Tech Blog
• Creating Simple Comparative Bars with JavaScript and CSS | Javalobby
• Lazy Angular Modules | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Advanced Performance Audits with DevTools | Paul Irish
• Spark and ZooKeeper: Fault-Tolerant Job Manager out of the Box | Javalobby
• Use Case: Spark Performance Monitoring | Javalobby

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Turing Machines and the Busy Beaver Game | Driven By Code
• Chaos Theory and the Logistic Map | Geoff Boeing

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Spring XD for Data Ingestion | Java Code Geeks
• Neo4j: Generating real time recommendations with Cypher | Mark Needham

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Opportunistic Encryption For Firefox | Bits Up!

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Cloud Native Application Maturity Model | Javalobby
• Introducing the Scalable and Resilient Web Apps Solution | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1495 | A Fresh Cup