For a slow day, we have a great collection of articles. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about grit as a predictor of success. I am a big believer in hard work and perseverance being key ingredients to success. At Atlassian, there is a very good post on maintaining focus with a growth mindset. Sometimes it is easy to get stuck in what you do every day, and you need to watch for opportunities to grow. Lastly, Aaron Harris shows us a bunch of things that are interesting metrics but not really progress for your business. Too many people focus on these types of things and forget about actually building a business.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Moving Too Fast For UX? Genuine Needs, Wrong Solutions | The Holy Java
- Failure Demand or How Lufthansa Ruined My #AgileTD Experience | Gil Zilberfeld
- Grit is a Predictor of Success | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- A developer’s thoughts on maintaining focus with the growth mindset | Atlassian
- Things that aren’t progress | Aaron Harris
Design and Development
- Functional programming for Java: getting started with Javaslang | Java Code Geeks
- Null Object Pattern in Swift | Swift Programming
- Getting Started With Dropwizard: Connecting to a Database Using Hibernate | DZone Integration
- Java 8 vs. Scala: Part I | DZone Performance
- Misused mobile UX patterns | Zoltan Kollin
- Critical Mass of Tests for Continuous Deployment | Java Code Geeks
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust | Andrew Gallant’s Blog
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Share Google Analytics data and remarketing lists more efficiently using manager accounts | Google Analytics Blog
- How We’re Doing Stats at Howdy | Why Not?
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016 | DZone Integration
- Instagration Pt. 2: Scaling our infrastructure to multiple data centers | Instagram Engineering
- The O-Ring Theory of DevOps | the morning paper
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- The Lingering Mess from Default Insecurity | Krebs on Security
- New Research: Encouraging trends and emerging threats in email security | Google Online Security
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1583 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – November 12, 2015 (#2131) | Morning Dew
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