The top news for the day comes from TechCrunch as they report on the Yahoo layoffs and financial report. This is a damn shame to watch as one of the original internet powers goes through its slow and painful demise. Google Online Security talks about protecting us from false downloads. Check Point gives us some information on a security vulnerability at eBay. At least one of the security posts was good news.

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

Top Stories

• Yahoo Plans To Cut 15 Percent Of Workforce, Reports $4.5B Writedown On Tumblr, Americas And Europe | TechCrunch

Startups, Career and Process

• Is Unlimited PTO a Good Deal for Me? | DaedTech
• 6 people you want to work with | TOPDOX

Design and Development

• Introducing Hazelcast Scala API With Aggregations | DZone Integration
• Dropwizard Part 3: Measuring Your Application Metrics | DZone Java
• Creating a Microservice? Answer these 10 Questions First | Datawire
• Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once | GitHub Engineering
• First Steps Into the World of Go | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Measuring baseline costs | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• ‘Cause I’m Strong Enough: Reasoning About Consistency Choices in Distributed Systems | the morning paper
• Hypergeometric linear transformation formulas | John D Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The importance of single-partition operations in Cassandra | Java Code Geeks
• The Key Steps for Quick and Effective Analytics on Disparate Data | The Data Point
• Apache Spark: RDD, DataFrame or Dataset? | KD Nuggets
• BigQuery under the hood | Google Cloud Big Data Blog
• Dataflow/Beam & Spark: A Programming Model Comparison | Google Cloud Dataflow

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Remote Copying of Generated Keys | Tyler Fitch
• LVE: an alternative container technology to Docker and Virtuozzo/LXC | Phusion

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• eBay Exposed to Severe Vulnerability | Check Point
• No More Deceptive Download Buttons | Google Online Security

Fun and Other stuff

• The Scooter Computer | Coding Horror

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1638 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – February 3, 2016 (#2180) | Morning Dew