Security articles lead our day, but the first one is good news. Google talks about building a safer web for everyone, including some GMail improvements. Krebs on Security follows with some news about skimmers hijacking ATM network cables. The moral of the story is, if you see an odd set of wiring, do not use that machine. At DZone Agile, there is an excellent post on what was learned at a startup weekend. In this case, the developer learned more about the various parts of a product business than actual coding. I have long been a believer in understanding more about the business side of things, and this is yet another case of it.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• The practice of reflection in action | Pat Kua
• How Startup Weekend Made Me a Better Developer | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• So You Want to Use Pathnames… | Piotr Szotkowski
• Logging v. instrumentation | Peter Bourgon
• Metadata: Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook | Murat
• Messy Structs/Classes in a Functional Style | programming in the twenty-first century
• A succesful Git branching model considered harmful | Jussi Judin
• How to do distributed locking | Martin Kleppmann
• Reflections on ESLint’s success | NCZOnline
• a lambda is not (necessarily) a closure | wingolog
• A Smallish List of Parse Migration Guides | High Scalability

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Heard-Of Model: Computing in Distributed Systems with Benign Failures | the morning paper

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Fourier transform of a function defined on a graph | John D Cook
• Naive Bayes Classifier Implementation | Alex Egg
• Use predictive analytics to reduce churn by 20% in 2 days – with 3rd-grade math | MadKudu
• You say you found a revolution. | The Stone and the Shell

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Apache Hadoop Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download) | Java Code Geeks
• Setting up Your Analytics Stack with Jupyter Notebook & AWS Redshift | The Data Point
• Pills of Eventual Consistency | Java Code Geeks

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• RSI Content Solutions Launches New Version of its Award-Winning RSuite Publishing Solution | RSI Content Solutions

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Building a safer web, for everyone | Official Google Blog
• Skimmers Hijack ATM Network Cables | Krebs on Security

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 9, 2016 (#2184) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1642 | A Fresh Cup