It was a fairly quiet weekend, with several good posts. First, on Java Code Geeks we get an introduction to Otto, the next generation of Vagrant. Facebook Code talks about Torchnet which helps build clean prototypes for deep learning. At Machine Learning Mastery, we get a crash course in convolution neural networks.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Blameless Postmortems – Examining Failure Without Blame | Code Ahoy
• Product Owners and Learning, Part 3 | Johanna Rothman
• Five Tips for a More Productive Team | Java Code Geeks

Design and Development

• Microservices Best Practices | DZone Integration
• The shape of open source | GitHub
• Why Does Software Rot? | Overcoming Bias
• Database Connector Output As Payload or Flow Variable | DZone Integration
• Microservices, Verticals, and Business Process Management? | DZone Integration
• Binding Map to XML: Dynamic Tag Names with JAXB | DZone Java
• Groovy Goodness: Turn a Map or List as String to Map or List | DZone Java
• Shipping forgettable microservices with Rust | precompile
• Property-Based Testing with Clojure and Datomic – Part 1 | Altometrics
• Unix: Find files greater than date | Mark Needham

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Crash Course in Convolutional Neural Networks for Machine Learning | Machine Learning Mastery
• Lighting the way to deep machine learning | Facebook Code
• Transactional data structure libraries | the morning paper
• Handwritten Digit Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks in Python with Keras | Machine Learning Mastery

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker Compose + NATS: Microservices Development Made Easy | DZone Integration
• Otto: The Next Generation of Vagrant | Java Code Geeks
• Help Wanted – The Pivotal Role QA Can Play in Leading the DevOps Charge | DZone Agile

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Will The Cryptocurrency Industry Figure Out Governance? | Velocity Blog

Link Collections

• Web Development Reading List #142: Contextual Identities, Form Hints, And ApplePay.js | Smashing Magazine
• Programming Digest #165 for June 27, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
• Dew Drop (Catch-Up Edition) – June 26, 2016 (#2275) | Morning Dew