Another *aaS announcement starts our day as the Google Cloud Platform announces beta availability of Node.js on Google App Engine. Heroku talks about what they had to do in order to patch all of their servers due to the recent glibc security advisory. It is an interesting view into what a company like Heroku needs to do for critical updates. On DZone Agile, we get a good post about becoming a better developer. Read more! Seriously, developers need to keep reading in order to learn, and sometimes that means books. Not everything that you need to understand a problem can be found in blogs or StackOverflow answers.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• We only hire the trendiest | Dan Luu
• My Passion Was My Weak Spot | Jacques Mattheij
• Deep Work: Optimizing your Time and Productivity | DZone Agile
• The Key to Becoming a Better Developer: Read More | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Fundamental refactoring vs elaborative refactoring | Edmund Kirwan
• Micro-services for performance | Vanilla Java
• Vaadin Treetable Example | Java Code Geeks
• Shims, Jigs and Other Woodworking Concepts to Conquer Technical Debt | First Round Review

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• To Compress or Not to Compress, that was Uber’s Question | High Scalability
• Introduction to Apache Kafka: Distributed Systems, Scalable Architecture, and Messaging Queues | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Category Theory Definition Of Products | John D Cook
• Must Know Tips for Deep Learning Neural Networks, Part 1 | KD Nuggets
• Some Starting Points for Deep Learning and RNNs | Artificial Intelligence and Startups

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• How to call Oracle stored procedures and functions from Hibernate | Vlad Mihalcea
• Mining Mailboxes with Elasticsearch and Kibana | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Heroku Behind the Curtain: Patching the glibc Security Hole | Heroku
• Create self-managing servers with Masterless Saltstack Minions | Benjamin Cane
• Observability at Twitter: technical overview, part II | Twitter Blogs

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• StartSSL Domain validation (Vulnerability discovered). | Osama almanna’s blog
• Secure websites shun HTTP Public Key Pinning | Netcraft

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Data Science Roundup #26: Is your data team functional? Retention analysis, water data, and more! | The Data Point
• Dew Drop – March 22, 2016 (#2213) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1662 | A Fresh Cup