Leading our day is a post on Both Sides of the Table, where they explain how misunderstanding startup metrics can cost you your business. Google’s Big Data blog gives us an introduction to Capacitor, the new BigQuery columnar storage format. High Scalability has an excellent post on the “platform advantage” and its relation to Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. Data Science Central show us the new rules for becoming a data scientist. The coolest part of the post is a visualization of the skills needed for a few types of positions like data developer and data researcher.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• How we See Others Drives the Value of our Self-Perception | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business | Both Sides of the Table
• Characteristics of Good Agile Leadership | DZone Agile
• A Hierarchy of Needs for Software Development | Atomic Object

Design and Development

• How to call SQL Server stored procedures and functions from Hibernate | Vlad Mihalcea
• A polyglot’s guide to multiple dispatch – part 3 | Eli Bendersky’s website
• Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom | Evan Miller
• Long Compile Time in Swift? Could be the Literal Parsing Bug | Atomic Object
• Understanding nested list comprehension syntax in Python | spapas.github.io
• Java EE vs Java SE: Has Oracle Given up on Enterprise Software? | Java Code Geeks
• Testing Java EE (or Why Integration Tests Are Overrated) | DZone Java
• Testing AWS Scala Microservices | Localytics

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Platform Advantage of Amazon, Facebook, and Google | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• 6 Questions To Understand Any Machine Learning Algorithm | Machine Learning Mastery
• Tracking Model Performance Over Time | Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
• A Different Approach to Low-Rank Matrix Completion: Part 1 | High Dimensionality Consulting

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Inside Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format | Google Cloud Big Data Blog
• 10 SQL Tricks That You Didn’t Think Were Possible | Java Code Geeks
• One (Token) Ring to Rule Them All | Java Code Geeks
• Evolution of Big Data Storage: How to Support Real-time Analytics at Scale | Java Code Geeks
• The New Rules for Becoming a Data Scientist | Data Science Central

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker Networking and DNS: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly | Java Code Geeks
• Taming the herd: using Zookeeper and Exhibitor on Google Container Engine | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 27, 2016 (#2239) | Morning Dew