On Devlin’s Angle is a good post on the importance of mathematics in computer science education. Some people we are past this idea, but I think it is important to remember the foundation of our industry. Jon Pittman rails against the execution of the MVP idea, basically saying we have nailed the minimum product but tend to forget about viable. Front has a solid post on why they made their roadmap public. It may not be for everyone, but give it a read if you work in product development.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Career and Process
- The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable Product | Jon Pittman
- Agile Is About Risk Mitigation | Javalobby
- Why we made our roadmap public, and how to build your own | Front
- Software Development Team: In Search of Ideal Size | Javalobby
Development
- Loading CSS without blocking render | Keith Clark
- Partial Application in ECMAScript 2015 | Raganwald
- When to Use Manual Testing vs. Automated Testing | Javalobby
- Is Polyglot Programming a Good Thing? | Javalobby
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Integration by Darts | John D. Cook
- The Importance of Mathematics Courses in Computer Science Education | Devlin’s Angle
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Growth of urban Wal-Mart | Flowing Data
- Giving Neo4j 2.2 a Workout | Javalobby
- To Shard, or Not to Shard | Javalobby
- How We Spend Our Money, a Breakdown | Flowing Data
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Getting Started with DevOps | Javalobby
- Continuous Deployment with Mesos, Marathon and Docker | Mesosphere
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Introducing Project Seasponge: Quick and Easy Threat Modeling | Mozilla Security
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- I Love the Cloud: My Never-Ending Journey with the AWS | Javalobby
- Hello World in EC2 Container Service | Ross Fairbanks
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – April 2, 2015 (#1986) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1498 | A Fresh Cup
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