Spring 2015 reading list

Here's a giant list of articles I read and liked (hat tip to people I follow on Twitter/Blogs. I'm just re-sharing this):

• Spark:
  • Spark SQL Optimizer and External Data Sources API | http://youtu.be/GQSNJAzxOr8
  • http://www.duchess-france.org/analyze-accelerometer-data-with-apache-spark-and-mllib/
• Mesos:
  • Mesos - David Greenberg, Two Sigma Mesos: The Operating System for your Cluster | http://youtu.be/LQxnuPcRl4s
  • An interesting article on distributed resource allocation in Mesos
  • http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2015/04/08/playing-traffic-cop-resource-allocation-in-apache-mesos/
  • http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/558/Syllabus/11-Fairness/Fair.html
• Cassandra:
  • Cassandra CQL field notes | http://blog.parsely.com/post/1928/cass/
  • http://homeawesomation.blogspot.com/2015/02/using-phi-accural-failure-detectors-to.html
  • Macy's: ​Switching Engines During Flight: Apache Cassandra at Macy's | https://youtu.be/bzH86d_jOg0
• Graph:
  • https://www.airpair.com/neo4j/posts/modelling-game-economy-with-neo4j
  • http://www.randalolson.com/2015/03/08/computing-the-optimal-road-trip-across-the-u-s/
• Some ZooKeeper and Kafka issues we saw in production:
  • Repeated failures due to ConsumerRebalanceFailedException
  • https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1716
  • https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1162
  • We didn't encounter this but sure is scary | http://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zookeepers-poison-packet/
• Lucene:
  • http://hackerlabs.org/blog/2011/10/01/hacking-lucene-the-index-format/
  • http://www.slideshare.net/lucenerevolution/what-is-inaluceneagrandfinal
  • http://www.slideshare.net/lucenerevolution/willnauer-simon-doc-values-column-stride-fields-in-lucene
• Java:
  • Is it worth clearing out local Collections/Maps after creating and populating them in a method? | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/hAsqhV3yYS4
  • http://www.slideshare.net/jpaumard/jfokus-50-new-things-with-java-8
  • JVM Mechanics by Douglas Hawkins | https://vimeo.com/120533011
  • A solution for most JVM GC issues | http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hard_reboot.png
  • http://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html
  • http://www.infoq.com/presentations/performance-safety
  • http://www.infoq.com/presentations/java8-performance
  • Aleksey Shipilev — java.lang.String Catechism | https://youtu.be/YgGAUGC9ksk
• Async actors and immutable data structures:
  • https://twitter.com/Obdurodon/status/559791099410399232?s=09
  • https://twitter.com/IrisClasson/status/603729510996017153/photo/1
• Go/Rust:
  • http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/golang/talks/2014/research2.slide#24
  • http://www.quora.com/Scala-vs-Go-Could-people-help-compare-contrast-these-on-relative-merits-demerits
  • http://bravenewgeek.com/go-is-unapologetically-flawed-heres-why-we-use-it/
  • http://www.evanmiller.org/four-days-of-go.html
  • http://www.polyglotweekly.com/2015/04/24/thoughts-of-a-rustacean-learning-go.html
• Performance, systems and misc things:
  • http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/02/22/how-gzip-uses-huffman-coding/
  • http://www.qlik.com/us/blog/posts/patrik-lundblad/dissecting-how-to-choose-the-right-chart
  • https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-Sizing
  • http://vincebuffalo.com/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.html
  • http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
  • http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australian-technology/securing-passwords-with-blowfish/
  • https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/YOW-2012-Don-Reinertsen-The-Zen-of-Product-Development
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-additional-entropy-for-cloud-servers-using-haveged
  • http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2015/04/10/understanding-page-faults-and-memory-swap-in-outs-when-should-you-worry
  • http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2015/04/14/riak-elasticsearch-and-numad-walk-into-a-red-hat/
  • http://tobert.org/disk-latency-graphs/
  • http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/performance-doubling-with-message-coalescing
  
  Until next time!