Big business news kicks off our day. First, recode reports on Dell’s acquisition of EMC for $67 billion. Yes, that is a ridiculous amount of money. Next, AngelList gets $400 million for its large seed fund. It will be interesting to see how that much money changes the direction of AngelList. There are also a lot of link collections today, with 2 focusing on data science. So, make sure you take a look!

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

Top Stories

• AngelList To Power The World’s Largest Seed Fund With $400M From Chinese Private Equity Firm | TechCrunch
• Dell to Acquire EMC for $67 Billion in the Largest Ever Tech Takeover | recode

Startups, Career and Process

• What Problems Do You Have With Kanban? | DZone Agile
• Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers | Allison Kaptur

Design and Development

• What Developers Need to Consider When Working With the Java Ecosystem | DZone Java
• From REST to GraphQL | Jacob Gillespie
• Mozilla, GSMA Publish Study on Mobile Opportunity in Emerging Markets | Mozilla
• RequiredInterface | Martin Fowler
• Jenkins, JaCoCo, and SonarQube Integration With Maven | DZone Integration
• Moving from Maven to Gradle in Java | DZone DevOps

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Hystrix by Netflix: Fault Tolerance in a Connected World | DZone Integration
• Making the Case for Building Scalable Stateful Services in the Modern Era | High Scalability

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Quantifying and Visualizing the Reddit Hivemind | Max Woolf
• NBA player career projections | Flowing Data
• Experiment Design and Modeling for Long-term Studies in Ads | The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Codeship, Docker, and Deployment to AWS EC2 Container Service | Java Code Geeks
• Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture for real-world service management | DarkNEdgy
• Adding an existing Docker host to Docker Machine : a few tips | Java Code Geeks
• Docker and Kubernetes in the Java Ecosystem | DZone Cloud

Link Collections

• Issue 128 for October 12, 2015 | Weekly Programming Digest
• Dew Drop – October 12, 2015 (#2109) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1563 | A Fresh Cup
• Data Science Roundup #5: Differential Privacy, Problems with “Small” Data, and the Human Algorithim | The Data Point
• Learning R. Making data work. Probability and paradox with Python. Dark side of data. NLP tutorial. | Data Elixir