Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it. The regret is seeing others in similar situations become wildly successful. As someone who has looked at these same choices, comparing yourself to others is never a good idea as there are circumstances that can change the situation greatly. Who really knows whether a particular management opportunity will lead to great success? On DZone Agile, we get a discussion about the differences between junior and senior developers. What is the difference and how can we help people progress from junior to senior? One last post for today is from synk, where they talk about exploiting Buffer, a significant part of Node. Basically, if you write code, expect there to be vulnerabilities somewhere.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• 6 Reasons NOT to Build Team Before MVP | brain hub
• The Cost of Being Right | DaedTech
• Startups: Five Ways to Reduce Failure Risk | Smart Projex
• My Biggest Regret As A Programmer | The Codist
• Junior vs Senior Developers: What’s the Difference, Anyway? | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Continuous Stress Testing for your JAX-RS applications with Gatling + Gradle + Jenkins Pipeline | Java Code Geeks
• Introducing DGit | GitHub Engineering
• Dropping Webhooks | runnable
• 10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language | Java Code Geeks
• Shadow Fields vs. Property Accessor Interface | Java Code Geeks
• Improve User Experience With Real-Time Features | Smashing Magazine
• Singleton (Patterns, 20 Years Later) | DZone Java
• Your Microservices Effort Will Fail If You Only Focus On The Technical Details | DZone Integration
• Deploying REST APIs to Docker Using Ruby and Sinatra | DZone Integration
• How Software Gets Bloated: From Telephony to Bitcoin | Hacking, Distributed

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• ‘Deep Graphs’: A New Framework for Network Analysis | AI3
• Deep Learning Books | Machine Learning Mastery

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Data USA makes government data easier to explore | Flowing Data
• Skyline: ETL-as-a-Service | Pinterest Engineering
• Tablesample In PostgreSQL 9.5 | 2ndQuadrant
• SASI Empowering Secondary Indexes | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Exploiting Buffer | snyk

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 6, 2016 (#2224) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1669 | A Fresh Cup