Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch of people were complaining about aging and this was the perfect therapy. Completing the leading stories today is Allan Kelly with his post about software having diseconomies of scale. It is an interesting perspective given how people talk about software, teams and budgets.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Software has diseconomies of scale – not economies of scale | Allan Kelly
• Back to the Roots: Where Agile Came From | DZone Agile
• Telecommuting is Great, But Only in Moderation | DZone Agile
• Do one thing… | O’Reilly Radar
• A Way to Detect Bias | Paul Graham

Design and Development

• Code Review – a Needed Habit in Science | Software Carpentry
• From OSGi to Jigsaw | DZone Java
• Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture | DZone Integration
• Why FlatBuffers | Robert Winslow
• 7 Software Quality Stats Scarier than Halloween | DZone Agile
• Why You Shouldn’t Style React Components With JavaScript | James K Nelson
• A Short Guide to Kernel Debugging | The Corner
• Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need | Affording Play

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Don’t Assume PostgreSQL is Slow | the build
• Inside engineering: Make your apps resilient, the Shopify way | Scale Your Code

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Type safety for Scala: “From F to DOT: Type Soundness Proofs with Definitional Interpreters” | Lambda the Ultimate
• A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python | KD Nuggets
• An Inside View of Language Technologies at Google | Breakthrough Analysis
• Agile Web Mining at Bing | Data Mining

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Raw data sections in Voron | Ayende @ Rahien
• How Big Data is used in Recommendation Systems to change our lives | KD Nuggets

Fun and Other stuff

• October 30, 2015 – Youth Revival Therapy | Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller
• Git | xkcd
• Greater than the sum of its parts | The Economist

Link Collections

• Web Development Reading List #110: Jekyll, libSass, 2G Tuesdays and Service Workers | Smashing Magazine
• Dew Drop – October 30, 2015 (#2123) | Morning Dew