Some interesting news to start our day. Twitter finally seems to be moving to longer messages, possibly as big as 10k. Oracle acquired AddThis for $200M. This is interesting because it really feels outside of what Oracle has purchased in the past. Flowing Data has an excellent visualization on the cause of death over various ages. It is definitely an interesting way to look at the differences between the ages and genders.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- The 2 Types of Engineer | Think Faster
- How to avoid Idea Averaging | andrewxhill
- Exceptionalism | Aaron Harris
- Year-long Goals Are Too Long | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Neat new features in Git 2.7 | Atlassian Developers
- Data Persistence and Sessions With React | Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial
- A General Software Maturity Model | DZone Java
- Microservices Architecture: What, When, and How | DZone Integration
- Cross-platform applications in practice | AIRTAME
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Hacking Redis To Save Money | Peter Bui
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Causes of Death | Flowing Data
- Configurable ETL processing using Apache Storm and Kite SDK Morphlines | Java Code Geeks
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Managing Microservices with Neo4j | DZone Integration
- Why Docker containers are not used widely in Enterprises? | Java Code Geeks
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- LastPass adds emergency access for loved ones to get into your Vault | The Next Web
- On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture | Tony Arcieri
- Bleichenbacher’06 signature forgery in python-rsa | Filippo.io
Fun and Other stuff
- Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets | re/code
- Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M | TechCrunch
Link Collections
- The Daily Six Pack: January 5, 2016 | Dirk Strauss
- Double Shot #1618 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – January 5, 2016 (#2161) | Morning Dew
- The Daily Six Pack: January 6, 2016 | Dirk Strauss