Just a short introduction today as I am traveling. Lots of good information today, so please take a look at as much as possible.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Scrum Masters – First, Do No Harm | DZone Agile
• The Software Engineer’s Guide to Depreciating Your Resume | Mike Adams
• How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• The Sauce Journey – From Star to Scrum | DZone Agile
• The Layoff List | DZone Agile
• Requirements in an Agile World | Java Code Geeks
• API Documentation and the Communication Illusion | James Cooke

Design and Development

• Swift Guide to Map Filter Reduce | User Your Loaf
• OO Design Is More About ‘Doing’ Than ‘Being’ | DZone Java
• Ionic vs. Pure Cordova: Three Reasons Ionic Wins | NOUPE
• Using Protocol Constraints Instead Of Extending | Code Coverage
• Doubling Down on Protocol-Oriented Programming | Khanlou
• “I know how to program, but I don’t know what to program” | Dev Dungeon
• Algebraic Data Types & Monads in Ruby with the Monadt Gem | Atomic Object
• A reactive serverless cms for the technology blog | Razorfish Technology Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Performance and Scaling in Enterprise Systems | High Scalability
• Swift Compilation Reporting at Tumblr | Tumblr Engineering

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Alexa, can you add custom NLP to Amazon Echo? | Init.ai Decoded

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Introduction to Big Data | Haifeng Li

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• How to get your ASP.NET app up on Google Cloud the easy way | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1682 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – May 11, 2016 (#2249) | Morning Dew
• Dew Drop – May 12, 2016 (#2250) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1683 | A Fresh Cup