Google leads the day with their new accelerator for mobile startups, as announced on the Google Developers blog. It is not a huge thing, but it is good to see more of this kind of thing. Eric Leong has a great post on the types of software engineers. I have talked about it in the past, but his focus is on the spectrum of technical engineers (those who purely love technology) and product engineers (those who love building products). The Kua has a good article that follows this nicely where he talks about the types of development teams. I have found that the structure of your team can make a big difference in the success of projects, so what kind of team do you have?

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

Top Stories

• Google announces a new Accelerator for mobile startups | Google Developers Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• Do You Need To Know More Than One Language? | DZone Java
• What I wish they would teach in universities | Ayende @ Rahien
• Is Your Employer a “Best Place To Work” For Developers? | Job Tips For Geeks
• Stories from the interview room: Should your code be doing THAT? | Ayende @ Rahien
• The Product-Technical Spectrum | Eric Leong
• Types of Development Teams | The Kua @ Work

Design and Development

• Java Survey Results, Part II – Web Frameworks | DZone Java
• An Automated Market of Cypher-Annotated Microservices, Part 3 | DZone Integration
• 7 Tips for Successful Code Generation in Java | Java Code Geeks
• Introducing Arbiter: A Utility for Generating Oozie Workflows | Code As Craft
• More on technology compatibility kits in app development | Paul Hammant
• Temporal Coupling Between Method Calls | DZone Integration
• What is Acceptance Test-driven Development? | DZone Agile
• How a SaaS company evolves its front-end tech stack | Olark
• Testing multithreaded code in Java | Java Code Geeks
• Backward Compatibility – Friend or Foe? | DZone Integration
• Introducing Background Sync | Google Developers

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How Does the Use of Docker Effect Latency? | High Scalability
• Too many open files: Tracking down a bug in production | Room Key Tech Blog
• Communication Logs | infobip engineering
• O(1) Data Lookups With Minimal Perfect Hashing | The blog at the bottom of the sea

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Sinc and Jinc sums | John D. Cook

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Back to 28: Grub2 Authentication Bypass 0-Day | Hector Marco
• Let’s Re-Think Security Trade-Offs | Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog
• TLS Client Authentication | Java Code Geeks
• FireEye Exploitation: Project Zero’s Vulnerability of the Beast | Project Zero
• Indexing HTTPS pages by default | Google Online Security

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – December 16, 2015 (#2153) | Morning Dew
• Dew Drop – December 17, 2015 (#2154) | Morning Dew