Security leads the way for today. The next Web reports on Kaspersky and the Dutch police collaborating on a ransomware unlocker. Google’s Project Zero talks about the details of two exploits. Praetorian shows how statistics can help crack your password quicker.

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

Career and Process

• Prioritize Backlogs with the User in Mind | Javalobby
• How To Use Data To Plan Your Startup Budget | The Next Web
• Consensus-Driven Development | NCZOnline

Development

• Writing Clean Tests – Small Is Beautiful | Java Code Geeks
• Gotchas From Two Years With Node | Segment
• What’s new in Grails 3 | Java Code Geeks
• Elegant tests with Truth Tables | the brew pub
• Microservice Design Patterns | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• True Zero Downtime HAProxy Reloads | Yelp Product & Engineering Blog
• Applying Application Side Resiliency – A Study Using NuoDB with Mule ESB | Javalobby
• Measuring the Impact of tcpdump on Very Busy Hosts | Javalobby

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Graphics in reverse | MIT News
• Why an empty sum is 0 and an empty product 1 | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Real-time full-text search with Luwak and Samza | Confluent
• Deep Dive into Spark SQL’s Catalyst Optimizer | Databricks
• Spark: Generating CSV files to import into Neo4j | Mark Needham

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Kaspersky and Dutch Police Launch a Ransomware Unlocker | The Next Web
• Statistics Will Crack Your Password | Praetorian
• A Tale of Two Exploits | Project Zero

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Now Available – Amazon WorkSpaces API & CLI | AWS Official Blog
• MongoDB on the AWS Cloud – New Quick Start Reference Deployment | AWS Official Blog

Fun and Other stuff

• The Realtime API: In memory mode, debug tools, and more | Google Apps Developer Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 14, 2015 (#1992) | Morning Dew