Two top stories lead our day. First, Mashape open sources its Kong API management platform, which could be a big deal for anyone that writes externally consumable APIs. The second story is at Broken Links where they talk about the future of the open web. I am highlighting this one because it is something we need to keep thinking about before the web becomes a collection of silos.

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

Top Stories

• The Future of the Open Web | Broken Links
• Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform | TechCrunch

Career and Process

• Embracing failure and learning from the Imposter Syndrome | O’Reilly Radar
• Eliminate Features | Javalobby
• Software Subscription fee? Or just Vapor-ware? | S.Lott-Software Architect
• 3 Questions of Effective Daily Meetings | Gil Zilberfeld

Development

• Code == UX | Reaktor
• Creating A Complete Web App In Foundation For Apps | Smashing Magazine
• Data Driven Awesomeness #3 | Liquid Blog
• There’s a lot to explore with Google Play services 7.3 | Android Developers Blog
• How Java 9 And Project Jigsaw May Break Your Code | Java Code Geeks
• What to Expect on April 30 – Upgrading to Graph API and the New Login | Facebook Developers
• How we rebuilt our app on React and Dropwizard: Part 1 | Sift Science

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• “People Who Like This Also Like … ” Distance Metrics for Fun and Profit | Ben Frederickson

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Redis RAM Ramifications – Part I | Javalobby

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Clustering Using Docker Swarm 0.2.0 | Java Code Geeks
• Synthetic and RUM – Better together | Pingdom Royal

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Streak’s Top 6 Tips for App Engine | Google Cloud Platform
• Run Docker Apps Locally Using the Elastic Beanstalk (EB) CLI | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• Windows 10 Developers – The Daily Six Pack: April 28, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – April 26, 2015 (#2002) | Morning Dew
• Little Wonders of C# 6 – The Daily Six Pack: April 29, 2015 | Dirk Strauss