Starting our day, the Google Big Data blog talks about new integration of BigQuery with Google Drive. Google Cloud Platform gives us some goodies when they talk about Kubernetes and container portability. WordPress releases 4.5.2, a minor but important security release. I know that doesn’t sound like big news, but when security fixes are made available everyone should really make sure that they upgrade.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Architects Don’t Decide | Java Code Geeks
• Managing requires skills and intuition | Allan Kelly
• Github and Code Review: A Quiet Revolution | DaedTech
• Is Code Review Considered a Part of QA? | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Bidirectional Data Flow – A Double Edged Sword? | Lee Mason
• Learning Rust: Sharing My Queue Between Threads | David Beck
• Code Review and Single Responsibility Principle | DZone Agile
• Testing Improvements in Spring Boot 1.4 | DZone Java
• A Few Thoughts About Kotlin and Why I Like It So Much | DZone Java

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Locking in WebKit | WebKit
• Solving Intractable Performance Problems Through Vertical Engineering | Alex Ionescu’s Blog
• How to derive business value from performance monitoring? | Java Code Geeks
• A workshop on strace & tcpdump | Julia Evans
• HotSpot Incremental Java Garbage Collector | Inspired by Actual Events

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Number plate recognition with Tensorflow | Matt’s ramblings

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• BigQuery integrates with Google Drive | Google Cloud Big Data Blog
• NFL draft pick quality for your team | Flowing Data
• Sentiment Analysis on Enron’s Emails with Apache Spark | Mammoth Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery | Octopus Energy Tech blog
• Inside the Magic Pocket | Dropbox

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• WordPress 4.5.2 Security Release | WordPress

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• How Kubernetes takes container workload portability to the next level | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Programming Digest #158 for May 9, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
• Dew Drop – May 9, 2016 (#2247) | Morning Dew