It was a slow news day, but we still have plenty of good articles. First Johanna Rothman has started a series on Product Owners and learning. I highly recommend these posts if you have any interest in how product features are defined. Today we have part 1 and part 2. On the Android Developers Blog we get a description of the new Android Basics Nanodegree. It is good to see some education and training around these types of topics, but I am not sure I like the “nanodegree” terminology. I have shared two posts from the Takipi blog today. I am pointing this out because I tend not to share posts from product blogs too often, but this is one of those blogs that does not shamelessly self-promote and has excellent technical content.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Product Owners and Learning, Part 1 | Johanna Rothman
• On the quest for the right project management tool: Jira, Trello, Asana, Redmine | Java Code Geeks
• Java vs .NET vs Python vs Ruby vs Node.JS: Who Reigns the Job Market? | Java Code Geeks
• Worst Resume of the Week: The Gapper-Hopper | DZone Agile
• Why You Should Learn to Code | DZone Agile
• Collective Code Ownership in Agile teams | DZone Agile
• Product Owners and Learning, Part 2 | Johanna Rothman

Design and Development

• Introducing the Android Basics Nanodegree | Android Developers Blog
• Folding the Universe, Part II: Abstracting Recursion | DZone Java
• Testing and Continuous Integration: Making Everything Work Together | DZone Agile
• Grails Goodness: Creating A Fully Executable JAR | DZone Java
• Ignore Checked Exceptions, All the Cool Devs Are Doing It – Based on 600,000 Java Projects | Takipi Blog
• How To Become an Agile Bug Beating Super Hero | DZone Agile
• BoiledCarrot | Martin Fowler
• Lombok, AutoValue, and Immutables | Inspired by Actual Events
• 5 Common Hibernate Exceptions and How to Fix Them | Takipi Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Cassandra At The Heart Of Globo’s Live Streaming Platform | Java Code Geeks
• JavaScript performance updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra | MS Edge Dev Blog
• Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data | PackageCloud

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• AI^2: Training a big data machine to defend | the morning paper
• ‘Use the bloom filter, Luke!’ | semantics3

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• How Apache Kafka and MapR Streams Handle Topic Partitions | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• The Hard Truth About Bimodal IT | DZone Integration

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1703 | A Fresh Cup