We continue our streak of career and startup related articles leading the day. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the qualities of empathy. This one is timely for me due to some recent events in my personal life, and it is a good read for everyone. Andrew Chen talks about the product death cycle and how to break out of it. Anyone in product development has lived through a lot of that article. On Venture Beat, there is an interesting discussion on the disruptive effect of open-source startups.

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

Top Stories

• The Four Qualities of Empathy | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni

Startups, Career and Process

• This is the Product Death Cycle. Why it happens, and how to break out of it | Andrew Chen
• Trust, Accountability, and Where Does the Time Go? | Johanna Rothman
• The disruptive effect of open-source startups | Venture Beat
• It’s Not About What You Know Right Now, It’s What You’ll Know in the Near Future | Javalobby

Design and Development

• Exception Monitoring and Response | GitHub Engineering
• Why do companies fail at adopting Functional Programming? | The Holy Java
• Cross Language Benchmarking Part 3 – Git Submodules and the Single-Command Cross Language Benchmark | Javalobby
• ZooKeeper for Microservice Registration and Discovery | Java Code Geeks
• Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust | Ruud van Asseldonk
• Hacking Elixir’s Syntax | Raising Heldscalla
• Why focusing on native code may not be right | CodeNgo

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Scaling Raft | Cockroach Labs
• Querying Your Database from Millions of Fibers (Rather than Thousands of Threads) | Javalobby

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Computing Shortest Distances Incrementally with Spark | Insight Data Engineering

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Read-only deploy keys | GitHub
• Introducing Empire: A self-hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS | Remind Engineering
• A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks | Google Cloud Platform

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Backblaze Releases the Reed-Solomon Java Library for Free | Backblaze
• Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X | The Register

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Apache Spark on Amazon EMR | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: June 17, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1513 | A Fresh Cup