I normally don’t talk much about acquisitions, but the Nokia purchase of Alcatel-Lucent is for a large $16.6 Billion. You don’t see those types of deals too often, and it shows the direction that Nokia is moving in. Gina Maini talks about no longer being an inspiration, or more directly, becoming part of programming culture. It is an excellent read with a different perspective on the “women in tech” issue.

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

Top Stories

• Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 Billion | Recode
• No Longer An Inspiration | Gina Maini

Career and Process

• Don’t Do Scrum, Be Agile! | Javalobby
• Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity | Building Real Software
• Build an MVP not a Beta | Stephen Forte’s Blog
• What Programming Language Should I Learn? | Job Tips For Geeks

Development

• The Three Types of Mobile Experiences | Javalobby
• Types Of Code Coverage- Examples In C# | .NET Zone
• Creating Fakes in Go with Channels | Architects Zone
• Two Phases of Angular 2 Applications | Architects Zone
• 10 Ways to Lead with Analytics | Javalobby
• Creating a Flexible Android Widget | LinkedIn Engineering
• Writing a Redis client in pure Bash | digitalserb.me
• Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Applications | Box Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Evolution of APM | DZone
• Full Stack Tuning for a 100x Load Increase and 40x Better Response Times | High Scalability

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• T-SQL ROLLUP and CUBE | Javalobby

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Continuous Deployment with Freight | Sentry

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-034 – Critical | Microsoft TechNet
• Introducing our bug bounty program | Dropbox Tech Blog
• Google, Microsoft and token leaks | Andris Atteka’s Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 15, 2015 (#1993) | Morning Dew