Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives us a great post on building an image host using AWS Lambda, S3 and Dynamo. It is great to see people stitching these services together in different ways.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• I’m a boring programmer (and proud of it) | Signal v. Noise
• Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management | The Year of the Looking Glass
• Software Rewrite: The Chase | DaedTech

Design and Development

• Introducing React Storybook | KADIRA VOICE
• Transforming Collections – Java 8 Collectors API | DZone Java
• Rage Against The Finite-State Machines | Learn You Some Erlang
• Rust via its Core Values | Design is Refactoring
• A Practical Guide to building a Blog with React, Express and MongoDB – Part 1: Intro, Setup and WebPack | AModernDev
• Creating Immutable Classes in Java | DZone Java
• The Netflix Stack, Using Spring Boot – Part 3: Feign | DZone Java
• Jetty Session Clustering Example | Java Code Geeks
• Amazon takes on PayPal and others with launch of Amazon Payments partner program | TechCrunch

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How to Make C++ Code Run 90x Faster | Trade-Ideas

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Neural Networks with artistic talent | TasteHit

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Working with streaming | RealTime Data Compression
• A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom! | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
• one.love – an inspired rethink | clj.orcery

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Dockerise your PHP application with Nginx and PHP7-FPM | The Geeky Platypus Blog
• Contaminate AWS instances on ssh login | UnixDaemon: In search of (a) life
• The Netflix IMF Workflow | The Netflix Tech Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Calculate the cost and probability of a DDoS attack | Help Net Security

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• How to build an image host using AWS Lambda, S3, and Dynamo | Michael Schmatz

Link Collections

• April 2016 | SwiftMonthly
• Dew Drop – April 4, 2016 (#2222) | Morning Dew