Leading our Monday is a post on techiferous where they talk about not treating quality as a separate activity. Anyone involved in development should be aware that writing code and throwing it over the wall to QA is not a productive or efficient practice anymore. On KD Nuggets, there is an interesting post about rare events, anomalies and how streaks pattern change. If you are interested in data analysis at all, it is a very worthwhile read. DaedTech has a good post about interviewing and detecting what he calls the “sucker culture”. He has very strong opinions about working in the corporate world, but that does not take away from the message here.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• How to Detect Sucker Culture while Interviewing | DaedTech
• The Product Manager’s Guide to Feature Flags | LaunchDarkly

Design and Development

• Consider Static Factory Methods Instead of Constructors | DZone Java
• How to Use the Executor Framework | DZone Java
• An Introduction to Cordova: Example | Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial
• Container Object pattern. A new pattern for your tests. | Java Code Geeks
• Do Not Treat Quality as a Separate Activity | techiferous
• Analysis of Software Architectures | Firat Atagun
• Java is the #1 Language in January 2016 | DZone Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity Locking and Partial Rollbacks | the morning paper
• Comparing GC Collectors | eivind kodemaker

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Automatic Colorization | Tiny Clouds
• Understanding Rare Events and Anomalies: Why streaks patterns change | KD Nuggets
• Adding edges increases the graph Laplacian eigenvalues | John D. Cook
• Laplacian spectrum of complete graphs, stars, and rings | John D. Cook
• Another Y – Combinator Derrivation | Thoughts In Free Time
• Rendering Realtime Caustics in WebGL | Evan Wallace

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The importance of a data format: Part II – The environment matters | Ayende @ Rahien

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Maintain Infrastructure with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation | Java Code Geeks

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Running an External Zeppelin Instance using S3 Backed Notebooks with Spark on Amazon EMR | Amazon AWS Big Data

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – January 8, 2016 (#2163) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1621 | A Fresh Cup
• Web Development Reading List #119: Bulletproof Third-Party Content and Progressive Applications | Smashing Magazine
• Programming Digest #141 for January 11, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter