Today we start with a surprise announcement that Parse is shutting down at the end of this year. This sounds fairly odd given the popularity of the product and the potential increase in developer attention that Facebook gets. I am sure many developers are hoping that the product is just being integrated into some Facebook offering. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about how good ideas are born and get done. Generally it is an interesting read, but my focus was drawn to the concept of “an idea is a network”. That could help people think about things in a different manner. On Martin Fowler’s blog, we get an introduction to the basics of web application security. There is nothing really new here, but it is a solid article that is very approachable.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• How Good Ideas are Born, Get Done | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• How Do You Learn? | DZone Agile
• 4 Principles that Build a Metrics-Driven Company | The Data Point

Design and Development

• Grids in a SPA: Integrating JQGrid With Spring MVC and GSON | DZone Integration
• Thrift API Gateway – Part 2: Spring Domination | DZone Java
• Beyond Beginning Git: Exclude and Interactive Add | DZone Agile
• Dynamic, static, optional, structural typing and engineering challenges | Java Code Geeks
• Metrics for Microservices | DZone Integration
• Moving On | Parse

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Fastest code is the one not run: Part I – The cost of escaping strings | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Chimera: Large-Scale Classification Using Machine Learning, Rules, and Crowdsourcing | the morning paper
• Bounding a graph’s diameter by its spectrum | John D Cook
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend | In One Weekend
• Useful Data Science: Feature Hashing | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Visualizing Concurrency in Go | divan’s blog
• Query Sniper | Square Engineering Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The Basics of Web Application Security | Martin Fowler

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1634 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – January 28, 2016 (#2176) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: January 29, 2016 | Dirk Strauss