Leading today we have another post about fear. In this case, the engineering blog at Teachers Pay Teachers talks about the fear of breaking things and how that affects culture. Anyone who has been in that kind of environment knows how toxic it can be. For all of you Java developers out there, DZone Java has a nice article on “jar hell”. I do believe that dependency management is important, but I am not sure what the next step would be. Once of the problems in this space is versioning of libraries. The Holy Java talks about libraries and whether we should always upgrade, never upgrade or upgrade when we decide it is a good idea.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• The Fear of Breaking Things | Engineering at Teachers Pay Teachers
• Agile Failure Patterns to Look For | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Dynamic Java Code Injection | Java Code Geeks
• ECMAScript 6 destructuring gotcha | NCZOnline
• Permutations and tests | John D Cook
• What is JAR Hell? | DZone Java
• So you’re learning OCaml… | Edgar Aroutiounian
• My Case for Event Bus | DZone Integration
• Visual diffs on every deploy | SpeedCurve
• Upgrade or not to upgrade? The eternal dilemma | The Holy Java
• How To Securely Mobilize Data Using a REST API Backend | DZone Integration
• Clojure web development – state of the art – part 2 | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How wasteful is polling? | Superfeedr Blog
• A beginner’s guide to read and write skew phenomena | Vlad Mihalcea

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• SigOpt Fundamentals: Intuition behind Covariance Kernels | SigOpt Blog
• Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning | Rinu Boney
• How We Use Deep Learning to Classify Business Photos at Yelp | Yelp Engineering

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• …and Bob’s your uncle | Just a squirrel trying to get a nut….
• The information-seeking behaviour of recruitment professionals (part 1) | Information Interaction

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Managing Containerized Data Pipeline Dependencies With Luigi | AdRoll
• Monitoring with Bosun | Java Code Geeks

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Managing SSH access with Compute User Accounts | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1568 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – October 20, 2015 (#2115) | Morning Dew