The Google Security Blog starts our day as they talk about experimenting with post-quantum cryptography. Most of us do not need to worry about the details of this, but just be glad that some very smart people are doing something. Ayende @ Rahien continues the database internals series with two more posts on the performance of writing data to files. There is a good amount of detail on the potential issues around this, so the posts are very interesting reading. Zed A. Shaw has an excellent rant on the fact that programmers really need to learn more about statistics, or at least stop acting like they know more than they do. Personally, I do think most programmers would benefit from learning more about statistics, but it is a large field and takes a good amount of time to study.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Faster Than the Rest: Why Staying Agile Is the Key to Startup Success | DZone Agile
• A way to be Agile without micromanagement | Edoardo Turelli
• 7 Habits of Super Productive Java Developers | DZone Java

Design and Development

• Failure is not an option; it’s a requirement | Dialed In
• Quick Sort Algorithm – Explanation and Implementation | CodinGeek
• Grails REST Example | Java Code Geeks
• Leaving Unhandled Errors Behind | DZone Java
• Goldilocks Microservices | Java Code Geeks
• How to Use Spring Social With Facebook Part I | DZone Java
• Building a Web UI for MySQL Databases in Plain Java | DZone Java
• Insertion to Linked List – Explanation, Types and Implementation | CodinGeek
• Simplest C# code to post a tweet using OAuth | Danny Tuppeny

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Multi-domain dialog state tracking using recurrent neural networks | the morning paper
• How to Get Started with Java Machine Learning | Takipi Blog
• Support Vector Machines: A Simple Explanation | KD Nuggets
• Ten challenges in highly-interactive dialog systems | the morning paper

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Writing to a data file | Ayende @ Rahien
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: The enemy of thy database is… | Ayende @ Rahien
• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All | Zed A. Shaw

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• DevOps is disintegrating. But maybe that’s OK | TechBeacon

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Increase Security by Transitioning From Monolith to Microservices Architecture | DZone Integration
• Experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography | Google Security Blog

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 7, 2016 (#2282) | Morning Dew
• Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing | Smashing Magazine