We have a mix of stories today. In development, we have Mark Reinhold talking about the state of the module system, aka Project Jigsaw which will be in Java 9. Next, Daniel Lemire gives us an interesting take on who is typically responsible for progress, hackers or academics. On Mindful Chaos, they talk about how problem solving is not enough in a software engineer’s career, you have to be good at problem framing. It is an interesting perspective on some common beliefs.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Get Good at Testing Your Own Software | DaedTech
• Problem Solving is Not Enough | Mindful Chaos
• Hackers vs. Academics: who is responsible for progress? | Daniel Lemire

Design and Development

• Out of the Fire Swamp – Part III, Go with the flow. | the morning paper
• From Python to Go: migrating our entire API | Repustate
• The State of the Module System | Mark Reinhold
• Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 4. | Ruslan Spivak
• When Do You Stop Testing? | Java Code Geeks
• How I Came To Love TypeScript | Burke Holland
• Passing Arrays to a PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL Function | Inspired by Actual Events
• The Java Module System: First Look | DZone Java
• The performance impact of scripting in processes | Java Code Geeks
• Chronicle Journal – Customizable Data Store | Vanilla Java
• Use MTOM to Efficiently Transmit Binary Content in SOAP | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Introduction to Monte Carlo Tree Search | Jeff Bradberry

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• PostgreSQL, pg_shard, and what we learned from our failures | Citus Data
• Data Modelling | The Programmer’s Paradox

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• How We Deploy Containers at Grammarly | Grammarly Labs

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Making security better: Passwords | CESG Digital
• The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks | Bitcoin Magazine

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• User Defined Functions for Amazon Redshift | AWS Official Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – September 11, 2015 (#2088) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #103 | Smashing Magazine