Geek Reading: Week of 19 June 2015

There are lots of good articles today. In the development section, Luke Wagner talks about WebAssembly and the companies that will be involved in the new initiative. Even though the large vendors are all playing nice for now, I expect to see performance comparisons well before any of them make it available to the public. On Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about doing less more often. Sometimes it is about focus and sometimes it is about not doing what everyone else is doing.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• 8 secrets to succeeding in product management | Atlassian
• Unicorns | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• 4 Common Mistakes Developers Make When Estimating | Javalobby
• Modern Code Review Practices Are More Than Finding Software Bugs | Javalobby
• The most important skill in software development | John D. Cook
• On Interviewing Software Engineers | ZDFS
• Do Less. More. | Both Sides of the Table

Design and Development

• Splat goes Ruby | Firmafon Developers Blog
• WebAssembly | Luke Wagner’s Blog
• Practical Persistence in Go: SQL Databases | Alex Edwards
• How to monitor a Java EE DataSource | Vlad Mihalcea
• Manifold.JS Builds Hosted Web Apps on Android/iOS/Windows | NOUPE
• Organisation Pattern: Trunk Based Development | Javalobby
• Injecting Kubernetes Services in CDI managed beans using Fabric8 | Java Code Geeks
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using Python Flask and MySQL: Part 2 | Tuts+ Code Tutorial
• Encapsulation | The Programmer’s Paradox

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Mr. Batch and the Quest for the right Threading Profile | Javalobby

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks | Google Research
• A query complexity breakthrough | Shtetl-Optimized
• Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast | Jules Jacobs

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Traded animals | Flowing Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Does DevOps Reduce Technical Debt – or Make it Worse? | Building Real Software

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1514 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – June 18, 2015 (#2037) | Morning Dew