Lots of good articles over the weekend. First, Microsoft casually mentions that an open source Windows is “definitely possible”, and it was not an April Fool’s joke. This is definitely a different Microsoft. Coding Horror talks about how all bugs are shallow, if you throw enough money at it. It is a very good read, so please take a look. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about challenging limiting frames and thinking outside of the box. Another good read with some great quotes.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 7 and 8, I will be at a conference. Most likely, the posts will be light or I may not be able to publish at all. Things will return to normal later in the week.

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

Top Stories

• Challenging Limiting Frames | Conversation Agent
• Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is ‘Definitely Possible’ | WIRED
• Given Enough Money, All Bugs Are Shallow | Coding Horror

Career and Process

• The technical treadmill of software development | Cory Bateman
• BDD by example | Dan North
• A Little Risk Goes A Long Way | Javalobby

Development

• Translating your Objective-C project to Swift | O’Reilly Radar
• Reduced AutoMapper: Auto-Map Objects 80% Faster | Javalobby
• Browser as an Interactive Disassembler | Vyacheslav Egorov
• Building a Cool WebGL Babylon.js Demo With Oimo.js | NOUPE
• How to Use Java 8 Streams to Swiftly Replace Elements in a List | Java Code Geeks
• 5 Things You Should Know About Continuous Deployment… by the Man Who Coined the Term | Javalobby
• Is Continuous Delivery Riskier? | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Java Performance Tuning: Getting the Most Out of Your Garbage Collector | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• How I met your mother: Story arcs | Mark Needham
• R: Markov Chain Wikipedia Example | Mark Needham

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Intro to Database Systems : Indexing | Dan Crisan
• Operations Best Practices Part 1: Laying the Groundwork for MongoDB High Performance | Javalobby
• Processing Amazon Kinesis Stream Data Using Amazon KCL for Node.js | AWS Big Data Blog
• Sick time follows a simple formula | Great Not Big

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• Improvements to WordPress.org | WordPress

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Migrating from Heroku to AWS (using Docker) | DoorDash

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The lack of HTTPS at Amazon: identifying items purchased using information leakage | Smerity
• New LinkedIn Security Site: Helping Members and Businesses Better Understand our Security Practices | LinkedIn

Fun and Other stuff

• Massive study on MOOCs | Harvard News
• Enable your messaging app for Android Auto | Android Developers Blog

Link Collections

• Quick links | Geeking with Greg
• Dew Drop – April 3, 2015 (#1987) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1499 | A Fresh Cup