Today’s articles are lead by all things job related. On Both Side of the table, they discuss what leadership entails and how it differs with different teams and people. On Feld Thoughts, Brad Feld talks about convertible notes for startups, their terms and whether they are pre-money or post-money. It is a very good read for anyone looking at funding for a startup. At ribbon farm, they talk about the shrinking org chart. It is an interesting article that is a combination of data visualization, leadership and organizational awareness.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- On Leadership. And Diversity of Character. | Both Sides of the Table
- The Pre-money vs. Post-money Confusion With Convertible Notes | Feld Thoughts
- Why Open Source Works for LinkedIn | LinkedIn Engineering
- The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart | ribbon farm
Development
- Is Getter DI A Good Idea? | Java Code Geeks
- Processing documents with transducers | JUXT
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sealed Traits in Scala | Underscore
- Understanding the Ember Run Loop | monsoon
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Why You Dont’ Want to Aim for 100% Uptime According to Google’s Urs Hölzle | High Scalability
- Scalable Distributed Transactional Queues on HBase | Cask
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- A Multilingual Corpus of Automatically Extracted Relations from Wikipedia | Google Research
- Recommending items to more than a billion people | Facebook Code
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- R: dplyr – removing empty rows | Mark Needham
- What Makes A Database Mature? | Javalobby
- Flying faster with Twitter Heron | Twitter Blogs
- Microbenchmarking Big Data Solutions on the JVM – Part 1 | Autoletics
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Java EE Deployment Scenarios for Docker Containers | Java Code Geeks
- Mounting an EBS volume to Docker on AWS Elastic Beanstalk | The Holy Java
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Moving to a More Secure Standard: Update your Apps To Support Certificates Signed with SHA-2 | Facebook Developers
- Technical analysis of Hola vulnerabilities enabling cyber attacks | Vectra Blog
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – June 2, 2015 (#2026) | Morning Dew