A Smaller Piece of a Bigger Pie starts our day with a good post on cap-table dilution. Most people don’t understand how this works, so it is definitely worth a look. Otherwise, some security news should be a focus for today. Auth0 talks about vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries. The Next Web reports on a WordPress risk regarding distributing malware.

I have the same minor note regarding April Fools day as I did yesterday. I believe all of the linked articles are true, but I offer my apologies if I was mistaken on any of these. This year, the jokes seemed much more obvious than other years.

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

Career and Process

• Dangerous Words | Java Code Geeks
• 3 steps to taming technical debt | Atlassian Blogs
• A Scalable Software Development Organization? This is How You Do It! | Javalobby
• The Beginner’s Guide to Cap-Table Dilution | A Smaller Piece of a Bigger Pie

Development

• ChronicleMap – Java Architecture with Off Heap Memory | Java Code Geeks
• Vocabulary Based Programming | HZ Bits
• JAXB Is Doing It Wrong; Try Xembly | Java Code Geeks
• Refactoring: How do I even start? | So-Called “Programmer”
• Microservices, Monoliths, and NoOps | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Debugging memory leaks in Ruby | Sam Saffron

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• You Too Can Save Loads of Money: The Details of the Bayesian Model | Zalando

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• SELECT statements batch fetching with JDBC and Hibernate | Vlad Mihalcea
• Neo4j: Cypher – Building the query for a movie’s profile page | Mark Needham
• Map of global carbon emissions | Flowing Data
• Performance Testing MongoDB 3.0 Part 1: Throughput Improvements Measured with YCSB | Javalobby
• The Science of Crawl (Part 3): Prioritization | URX Blog
• FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough | VoltDB

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Critical vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries | Auth0
• Enough With the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes | Matasano Security
• WordPress Sites at Risk of Pirate Bay Clone Slinging Malware | The Next Web

Fun and Other stuff

• Smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic | phys.org

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 1, 2015 (#1985) | Morning Dew