Starting our week, we have an article from the Smithsonian about Babylonians using geometry centuries earlier than previously thought. This is just a cool tidbit that you don’t run across every day. In the “another day another security problem” category, fin1te explains the findings of an XSS bug on Facebook. Google announced the open source release of Seesaw, a scalable load balancer.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Stressed? It’s Not the Industry, It’s Your Employer | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Using Traits in Java 8 | DZone Java
- Complex Test Objects Made Easy in Java | DZone Java
- How a Leading Financial Services Company Scaled Test Environment Access and Saved $2M+ | DZone Agile
- Faster Testing, the Exploratory Way | DZone Agile
- How to Pattern-Match Files and Display Adjacent Lines in Java | Java Code Geeks
- Rebound & Integration: Making Sure No Data Gets Lost When Synced | DZone Integration
- API Blueprint Evolving in Two Areas Where OpenAPI Spec (aka Swagger) Falls Short | DZone Integration
- A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing | Developsense Blog
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Fastest code is the one not run: Part II – Memory management | Ayende @ Rahien
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- General birthday problem | John D Cook
- Coordinated concurrent programming in Syndicate | Lambda the Ultimate
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Explore Data Science – self-paced online learning | KD Nuggets
- Transitioning from MySQL to Cassandra at Chaordic | Java Code Geeks
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Self-Healing Systems | Java Code Geeks
- Dockerizing Spring Boot Applications | DZone Integration
- Seesaw: scalable and robust load balancing | Google Open Source
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1635 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – January 29, 2016 (#2177) | Morning Dew
- Web Development Reading List #122: A Performance Budget Builder, Streams, And The Web Push API | Smashing Magazine
- Programming Digest #144 for February 1, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
- Data Science Roundup #19: Saying Goodbye to Marvin Minsky, Scientific Reproducibility, and more | The Data Point