Amazon announced new “dense-storage” instances for EC2. This is not huge news but interesting in terms of trends. For the longest time, the big difference has been CPU or memory. Google Online Security talks about getting rid of unwanted ad injectors. These are terribly annoying and can really make a browser unusable in some cases. The NETRESEC blog talks about the GitHub DDoS attack as a “man-on-the-side”. Definitely an interesting read if you are fascinated by that kind of thing.

I do have one minor note regarding April Fools day. I believe all of the linked articles are true, tomorrow may be harder to determine as many sites will be posting “jokes” as serious news. Hopefully I will not link to one of those here, but I offer my apologies in advance if I do.

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

Career and Process

• The One Immutable Law of Adopting Agile | Javalobby
• The Dinovator Movement is Better Than the Bitpipe Accelerator Den… | Javalobby
• A New Prioritization Framework for Product Managers | Zen Payroll
• Obsessive Efficiency Disorder | Mattias Geniar

Development

• Hibernate Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide | Java Code Geeks
• Simplicity | Java Code Geeks
• Multiple UI Applications and a Gateway: Single Page Application with Spring and Angular JS Part VI | Javalobby
• Performance Issue Considerations for Microservices APIs | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Benchmarking Web search latencies | Google Cloud Platform

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• When Bayes factors and p-values disagree | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• A path for redesign as critique in visualization | Flowing Data
• Column Store Index in MS SQL 2012 / 2014 | Javalobby
• Hack up a Simple JDBC ResultSet Cache Using jOOQ’s MockDataProvider | Javalobby
• Fixing the index, solutions | Ayende @ Rahien

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• China’s Man-on-the-Side Attack on GitHub | NETRESEC Blog
• Out with unwanted ad injectors | Google Online Security

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• The Next Generation of Dense-storage Instances for EC2 | AWS Official Blog

Fun and Other stuff

• The state and rate of HTTP/2 adoption | daniel.haxx.se

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 31, 2015 (#1984) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1497 | A Fresh Cup