Today we focus on jobs and startups. First, Johanna Rothman talks about who should be your product owner. On First Round Review, there is an excellent post about the transition from engineer into manager. This is something I have personally gone through and seen other people struggle with as well. Diego Bash talks about failure criteria for startups, really focusing on self-imposed accountability. There are a bunch of really good articles that I have not mentioned, so definitely take a long look at today’s posts.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Who Should be Your Product Owner? | Johanna Rothman
• This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | First Round Review
• Big Learnings from our QA To Dev Transition | Maxwell Health
• Failure Criteria for Startups | Diego Basch

Design and Development

• Mocking and Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development | S.Lott-Software Architect
• The list monad in Perl and Python | The Universe of Discourse
• Replaying IIS request logs using Apache JMeter | Maarten Balliauw
• Vector based graphics in HTML & CSS | Callum Hart
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Empirical Study of Implicit Type Conversions in JavaScript | the morning paper

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Cache optimizing a priority queue | Playful Programming
• Reducing parsing costs in RavenDB | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Checking a Claimed BQP=NP Algorithm | Algorithmic Assertions
• Last digits of Fibonacci numbers | John D. Cook
• Ceptre: A Language for Modeling Generative Interactive Systems. | Lambda the Ultimate
• Faster deep learning with GPUs and Theano | Domino

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty | Flowing Data

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release | WordPress

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker is coming whether you like it or not | Kyle Baley

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• A new firmware worm can infect Macs without a data connection | The Next Web

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Introduction to data models in Cloud Datastore | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: August 4, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – August 4, 2015 (#2067) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1533 | A Fresh Cup
• The Daily Six Pack: August 5, 2015 | Dirk Strauss