Leading off our day is a cool article from Fast Co.Exist about a house that costs about $20,000. There is not a lot of detail about the house, but the idea is every cool. At Bothsides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what will happen in VC  in 2016. At Sudophilosophical, we get an interesting read on the decline of software quality at Apple. The real reason this is interesting is that people tend to worship Apple’s hardware, but this is not the first article railing against the quality of their software in the past year or two.

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

Top Stories

• This House Costs Just $20,000 – But It’s Nicer Than Yours | Fast Co.Exist

Startups, Career and Process

• We Are Here To Win | Monetate Engineering Blog
• How to Minimize Technical Debt and Reverse Grind | DZone Agile
• The Art of Agile Estimation – My Way of Dealing With It | DZone Agile
• What Do Industry Insiders Think Will Happen in VC in 2016? | Bothsides of the Table

Design and Development

• Spring Batch as a Framework for System Integration | DZone Integration
• Python vs. Java: Duck Typing, Parsing on Whitespace and Other Cool Differences | DZone Java
• PoLA and HttpURLConnection | DZone Integration
• Property-Based Testing for Serialized Data Structures | Atomic Object
• Apple’s declining software quality | Sudophilosophical
• Production postmortem: A null reference in our abstraction | Ayende @ Rahien

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Performance Engineering with React (Part 1) | Benchling

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Discrete harmonic functions on graphs | John D Cook
• Wendelstein 7-X fusion device produces its first hydrogen plasma | Max Planck Institut
• Temporal Higher Order Contracts | Lambda the Ultimate
• Barcode recovery using a priori constraints | absorptions

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Analyzing Ruby Code With Neo4j | DZone Integration

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• JGroups-based clustering and node discovery with Google Cloud Storage | Google Cloud Platform
• Docker Compose Environment Variable Binding Examples – Java, Node.Js, PHP, Python, & Ruby On Rails | Java Code Geeks
• Get Started with rkt Containers in Three Minutes | CoreOS

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1639 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – February 4, 2016 (#2181) | Morning Dew