Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone Java, they dig into the continuous battle of whether to use a framework or not.

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

Top Stories

• Bravery is for other people | Seth Godin

Startups, Career and Process

• Why is it so hard to find a front end developer? | Ilias Ismanalijev
• Tips for Properly Scaling Agile | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Don’t learn how to write code | Karim Jedda
• Rebuilding using microservices and layer-7 load balancing | Shutl Tech Blog
• The Swift Reflection API and what you can do with it | appventure
• Lets Write Some Bad Ruby | hashrocket
• To Use a Framework, Or Not? | DZone Java
• How saving a single byte cost me over a day (and solved with a single byte) | Ayende @ Rahien
• To Tag or Not to Tag | DZone Java
• Enterprise Architecture: Ripe for Digital Disruption | DZone Integration
• Full Text Trackers | Superfeedr Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Gentle Introduction to Hystrix – Hello World | Java Code Geeks
• Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications | Daniel Lemire’s blog
• Random Acts of Optimization | Riot Games Engineering

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Introducing: Blocks and Fuel – Frameworks for Deep Learning in Python | KD Nuggets
• Nuts and bolts: our routing algorithm | Captain Train

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Journalist-Engineer | Matthew Daniels
• The New Data Engineering Ecosystem: Trends and Rising Stars | Insight Data Engineering

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Couchbase Cluster using Docker Compose | Java Code Geeks
• Visualizing Docker Containers and Images | Probably Done Before

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1573 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – October 27, 2015 (#2120) | Morning Dew
• Data Scientists from Uber, Kaggle, and GrubHub Share Their Must-Read Blogs | The Data Point