Christmas break 2018 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some end of the year tech reading for you (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

data	Apache Arrow: A Cross-language Development Platform for In-memory Data | DataEngConf BCN '18 - YouTube
data	Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
data	How FoundationDB powers SnowflakeDB's metadata! - Ashish Motivala, Snowflake Computing - YouTube
data	Operating Jobs at Scale with Nomad Alex Dadgar, HashiCorp - YouTube
data	Technical Overview of FoundationDB - Evan Tschannen, Apple - YouTube
datastructure	cassandra/RangeFetchMapCalculator.java at f7431b432875e334170ccdb19934d05545d2cebd · apache/cassandra
datastructure	kafka-kit/stats.go at master · DataDog/kafka-kit
docker,golang	GopherCon 2018 Lightning Talk: Prateek Gogia - Managing Linux Network Namespaces Before & After 1.10 - YouTube
fun	DevSadOps on Twitter: "dev: "now that we switched to containers, how do I run the platform on my laptop?" op: "well, first you need to set up Kubernetes.." dev:… https://t.co/6cKQzbNF4a"
fun	Dmitri Sotnikov ⚛ on Twitter: "2 unit tests 0 integration tests… "
fun	GOTO 2018 • (Deep) Learning to Fly • Krzysztof Kudrynski & Blazej Kubiak - YouTube
fun	Hello macOS Mojave – katopz – Medium
golang	GopherCon 2018 Lightning Talk: go test in qemu - Google Slides
golang	GopherCon 2018: Bryan C. Mills - Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns - YouTube
golang	GopherCon 2018: Kavya Joshi - The Scheduler Saga - YouTube
golang	Scheduling In Go - Part I Go, (Golang) Programming - Blog - Ardan Labs
golang	Scheduling In Go - Part II Go, (Golang) Programming - Blog - Ardan Labs
java	90 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 11 - Azul Systems, Inc.
java	Chris Vest on Twitter: "Java regex pro-tip: you don't have to match everything with one complicated pattern. Matcher has a `usePattern` method, and \\G matches end of previous match. That way, you can switch between different patterns as you work through the input."
java	Cloud Native Java with OpenJ9: Fast, Lean and Definitely Mean - YouTube
java	FlatBuffers, ByteBuffers, and escape analysis - Google Groups
java	How to create a small docker image of openjdk 11(ea) application ( 1GB→85MB )
java	Incremental Improvements to the Java Platform - YouTube
java	Integrating Vert.x - YouTube
java	Introduction to Micronaut: Lightweight Microservices with Ahead of Time Compilation by Graeme Rocher - YouTube
java	MicroProfile Reactive Streams: Control the Stream - YouTube
java	Reactor Netty, the Default Spring Boot 2.0 Runtime - YouTube
java	Shenandoah GC: The Next Generation - YouTube
java	The rise of Java Microframeworks | E4developer
java	What's New in Java 11 - YouTube
java	What’s New in the Java Platform Language and Tooling Area - YouTube
java	java - Implied anonymous types inside lambdas - Stack Overflow
java,other-lang	Intro to Ballerina: A Cloud Native Programming Language - YouTube
java,testing	Easy and Accurate Performance Testing With JUnit/Maven - DZone Performance
java,testing	Structured JUnit 5 testing - codecentric AG Blog
k8s	Packaging Applications for Docker and Kubernetes: Metaparticle vs Pulumi vs Ballerina
other-lang	(9) What are general thoughts on Elixir, Crystal, Nim, Kotlin, Rust, Swift, Haskell, and Go? Which are most and least preferred? - Quora
other-lang	Nim programming language | Nim
other-lang	Pony
other-lang	The Crystal Programming Language
other-lang	The claim is "fast as C", so I was surprised that the performance comparison was... | Hacker News
other-lang	Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018
other-lang,rust	The Observation Deck » Falling in love with Rust
rust	Rayon: Data Parallelism for Fun and Profit — Nicholas Matsakis - YouTube
rust	Rust Concurrency Explained - YouTube
rust	RustConf 2018 - Getting Something for Nothing by James Munns - YouTube
rust	The success of Go heralds that of Rust – George Hosu – Medium
rust,other-lang	A Case for Oxidation: The Rust Programming Language - YouTube
rust,other-lang	Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite
sys	Painless Password Rotation with HashiCorp Vault - YouTube

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Late Summer 2018 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some late Summer tech reading for you (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

data	A simple spell checker built from word vectors – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
data	Apache Cassandra's 10 year Anniversary Special | DataStax - YouTube
data	Counting is Hard: Probabilistic Algorithms for View Counting at Reddit
data	Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser · Stanford DAWN
data	Lower Latency Graph Queries in Cypher with Redis GraphRoi Lipman, Redis LabsTim Davis, Texas A&M U - YouTube
data	Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs Bare Metal) « Expensify Blog
data	Synchronous replication across data center for messaging system at Uber - Mingmin Chen, Hongliang Xu - YouTube
data	The Cost of Containerization for Your Scylla - ScyllaDB
data	Towards 3B time-series data points per day: Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB
data,flux,sql	SQL vs. Flux: Choosing the right query language for time-series data
data,flux,sql	The Design of IFQL, the New Influx Functional Query Language - YouTube
devops	From 6 Month Waterfall To 1h Code Deploys - Andreas Grabner - YouTube
fun	Cliff Click - Lessons from a Big Data Machine Learning Startup - YouTube
fun	Fatih Arslan on Twitter: "homebrew users: periodic reminder to run "brew cleanup -s" to scrub the cache and remove downloads from old versions. Just freed 1.8GB of disk space."
fun	GOTO 2018 • Secrets of Effective Communication You Can Learn (from my Failures!) • Benjamin Mitchell - YouTube
fun	Growth Is Not the Only Goal – The Business Behind jOOQ
fun	Inside the Beach House Connecting the World’s Internet - YouTube
fun	It’s Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real | Blog | InfluxData
fun	Karl Isenberg on Twitter: "Even with kubeadm and a team of 6 you can’t get upstream K8s production ready in 6 months. We tried. Hard Problems: - High Availability - Single Sign On - Multitennancy - Resource Isolation - Permission Management - Upgrades - Backups - Package Management - CI/CD Integration… https://t.co/HJ7FTUhM6j"
fun	Which of these books do you own?… "
fun	Supercharged! Vehicle Physics in Skylanders - YouTube
fun,k8s	Kubernetes Advanced Scheduling - heating the Netherlands with Kubernetes - YouTube
fun,sys	fastcat - A Faster `cat` Implementation Using Splice
golang	Tobi on Twitter: "This comment on the Go 2 release draft on reddit is spot on. My dislike of Go is very much rooted in the authors apparent misconception of “complexity” and what in turn happens if you want to build a “simple” language.… https://t.co/W1mQzivjNu"
java	Ad-hoc Plugins with Gradle – Eugene Petrenko
java	Avoid stepping on page faults while writing to MappedByteBuffer - Google Groups
java	Brics Vs RE2/J
java	Contract Tests in the Enterprise Conference - Marcin Grzejszczak - YouTube
java	Evolving the Java Language with @BrianGoetz - YouTube
java	FYI: Changes to Garbage Collection in JDK11
java	GeeCON 2018: Marcin Moskała - Kotlin Coroutines in Action - YouTube
java	Inside the Java SDK: Connection Management | The Couchbase Blog
java	Java Puzzlers NG: The strange, the bizarre, and the wonderful - Voxxed Days Singapore 2018 - YouTube
java	Lightweight fibres for TruffleRuby. - aardvark179.github.io
java	Loom prototype publicly available
java	Project Loom with Ron Pressler and Alan Bateman - YouTube
java	The 6 Memory Metrics You Should Track in Your Java Benchmarks | cruftex.net
java	The Business Behind 5 Years of Data Geekery and 10 Years of jOOQ
java	The Future of the Java Platform and the JDK: Who is in Charge? - YouTube
java	Wouter Coekaerts » The Java type system is broken
java,graal	Stream API performance with GraalVM – graalvm – Medium
java,graal	Vert.x native image awesomeness!
java,reactive	Don’t use Reactive Streams in Java 9+ - Jacek Kunicki - YouTube
java,testing	Automatic tests for webservice with RestAssured, WireMock and Testcontainers libraries. · Sysco Middleware
java,testing	Marc Philipp — JUnit 5 extensions: from conditional test execution to test templates - YouTube
k8s	Debugging TCP socket leak in a Kubernetes cluster – Hasura
k8s	Microservice'ing like a Unicorn with Kubernetes, Envoy, and Istio
kafka,monitor	Introducing Kafka-Kit: Tools for Scaling Kafka
sys	Envoy Internals Deep Dive - Matt Klein, Lyft (Advanced Skill Level) - YouTube
sys	Introducing Envoy-Based Service Mesh at Booking.com - Ivan Kruglov, Booking.com - YouTube
sys	gRPC Deep Dive – Sree Kuchibhotla & Jayant Kolhe, Google (Intermediate Skill Level) - YouTube

Until next time!

Summer 2018 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some Summer tech reading for you. As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources.

Tag(s)	Link
combination,java,permutation,set	CombinatoricsUtils (Apache Commons Math 3.4 API)
combination,java,permutation,set	PermutationIterator (Apache Commons Collections 4.2-SNAPSHOT API)
combination,java,permutation,set	Sets (Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java 21.0 API)
data	#bbuzz 2018: Robert Rodger – Learned Indexes: a New Idea for Efficient Data Access - YouTube
data	Cassandra on RocksDB at Instagram
data	Casual 3D Capture
data	Consistent Hashing: Algorithmic Tradeoffs – Damian Gryski – Medium
data	Distributed Data Show Episode 17: Apache Kudu Architecture Analysis with DuyHai Doan - YouTube
data	Friction-Free Fault-Finding with Sapienz
data	GOTO 2018 • Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling • Kyle Kingsbury - YouTube
data	How JavaScript works: Deep dive into WebSockets and HTTP/2 with SSE + how to pick the right path
data	Mnemosyne: a distributed bitmapped indexing layer for big data with Phil Messenger - YouTube
data	MySQL 8.0: New Lock free, scalable WAL design | MySQL Server Blog
data	Rearchitecting a SQL Database for Time-Series Data | DataEngConf NYC '17 - YouTube
data	RedisConf18: Techniques for Synchronizing In Memory Caches with Redis - Redis Labs - YouTube
data,ai	Self Driving RC Car – Zheng Wang
data,java	Distributed Data Show Episode 44: Thread Per Core with Jake Luciani - YouTube
fun	!!Con 2018: Telling stories with traceroute! by Karla Burnett - YouTube
fun	GOTO 2018 • Attitude Determines Altitude: Engineering Yourself & Your Teams • Randy Shoup - YouTube
go	LOL - gvisor/generics.go at master · google/gvisor
graal,java	Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
graal,java	Instant Netty Startup using GraalVM Native Image Generation
graal,java	Java Web Server in a 20 MB Docker Image | John Zeringue
graal,java	Using GraalVM to run Native Java in AWS Lambda with Golang
java	4 out of 5 Java Developers Failed to Solve This Question | OverOps Blog
java	Asynchronous API with CompletableFuture: Performance Tips and Tricks (I may have shared this before!)
java	Building Mobile Web apps in Java with Vaadin - with live coding - YouTube
java	Java’s Mysterious Interrupt
java	Creating the new Voxxed websites using JHipster, Angular and GitLab, with Stephan Janssen - YouTube
java	Data Driven Logic
java	From Java to Kotlin and Back Again · allegro.tech
java	Functional Libraries for Java with Rabea Gransberger - YouTube
java	Geode - Third party indexing technique using quad trees - YouTube
java	Java 10 Hidden Jems Nicolai Parlog @nipafx - YouTube
java	Open Sourcing Our Specialized TinkerGraph with 70% Memory Reduction and Strict Schema Validation
java	Project Reactor: Now and Tomorrow
java	Spring Tips: Metrics Collection in Spring Boot 2 with Micrometer - YouTube
java	The Java Library Plugin - Gradle User Manual
java	[concurrency-interest] Reactive Streams Utility API - James Roper via Concurrency-interest - edu.oswego.cs.concurrency-interest - MarkMail
java	[concurrency-interest] juc and GC (plus FJ updates) - Doug Lea via Concurrency-interest - edu.oswego.cs.concurrency-interest - MarkMail
kubernetes	Keynote: Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Outage - Oliver Beattie, Head of Engineering, Monzo Bank - YouTube
ops	Kubernetes: The State of Stateful Apps | Cockroach Labs
sys	Chrome Tracing as Profiler Frontend · Aras' website
sys	PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise [LWN.net]
sys	SSH server/client in Erlang - Milad Rastian (First 20 mins)
sys	Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems" - YouTube

Until next time!

Jarasandha: A small Java library to help build an archive of records

Here's a small Java library I worked on. I worked on it quite actively (of course in my free time) mostly in 2017. It's a standalone, no-frills Java library to help build an archive of immutable records: https://ashwinjay.github.io/jarasandha

(More) 2018 Spring tech reading

Hi there! Here's some additional Spring reading for you.

Tag(s)	Link
data	(Deep) Learning to Fly by Krzysztof Kudrynski & Blazej Kubiak - YouTube
data	(Kafka semantics on Redis) Redis Streams Featuring Salvatore Sanfilippo - Redis Labs - YouTube
data	Deep Learning With Keras To Predict Customer Churn
data	śiva: Why We Created Yet Another Archive Format · source{d} blog
go	proposal: runtime: non-cooperative goroutine preemption · Issue #24543 · golang/go
java	An introduction to java.time
java	Garbage Collection in Java 9 // Speaker Deck
java	Moving to G1GC - An Experience Report by Kirk Pepperdine - YouTube
java	Stephen Colebourne's blog: JPMS modules for library developers - negative benefits
java	Style Guidelines for Local Variable Type Inference in Java
java	The Object Is Dead. Long Live The Object! – Excelsior JET Team Blog
java	The baby and the bathwater
java	java - Conditionally ignoring tests in JUnit 4 - Stack Overflow
java,kubernetes	Event-Driven Microservices With Vert.x and Kubernetes (Part 2 of 3) - DZone Microservices
java,stream,error	Guide to Try in Vavr | Baeldung
java,stream,error	hgwood/java8-streams-and-exceptions: Experiments with dealing with exceptions while using the Stream API
java,stream,error	jasongoodwin/better-java-monads
java,sys	Analyzing HotSpot Crashes - YouTube
java,sys	Basic API Rate-Limiting - Bozho's tech blog
java,sys	Charles Nutter — Going Native: Foreign Functions on the JVM - YouTube
java,sys	How we made the JVM 40x faster
java,sys	Iterating Over a Bitset in Java | Investigations
java,sys	Matrix Multiplication Revisited - Investigations
java,testing	Real Impact Testing Analysis for JVM Developers by Raquel Pau - YouTube
kubernetes,sys	CNCF Webinar Series – Deployment Strategies on Kubernetes - YouTube
kubernetes,sys	Comparison of Networking Solutions for Kubernetes — Comparison of Networking Solutions for Kubernetes 2 documentation
kubernetes,sys	How does "kubectl exec" work - Google Groups
kubernetes,sys	Kubernetes NodePort vs LoadBalancer vs Ingress? When should I use what?
kubernetes,sys	Kubernetes services and ingress under X-ray - Container Ops
kubernetes,sys	Networking with Kubernetes - YouTube
kubernetes,sys	Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes
kubernetes,sys	Services | Kubernetes
kubernetes,sys	The ins and outs of networking in Google Container Engine and Kubernetes (Google Cloud Next '17) - YouTube
kubernetes,sys	containers - What's the difference between ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes? - Stack Overflow
meltdown,java,sys	speculate/java_and_meltdown.md at master · steveloughran/speculate
meltdown,sys	Initial Benchmarks Of The Performance Impact Resulting From Linux's x86 Security Changes - Phoronix
meltdown,sys	KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space [LWN.net]
meltdown,sys	Meltdown (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia
meltdown,sys	Meltdown and Spectre
meltdown,sys	Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
meltdown,sys	The Meltdown and Spectre CPU Bugs, Explained
meltdown,sys	Understanding Meltdown & Spectre: What To Know About New Exploits That Affect Virtually All CPUs
meltdown,sys	Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ | Xen Project Blog
meltdown,sys	meltdown.pdf
meltdown,sys	spectre.pdf
network,sys	Some Common Mitigation Techniques for Overload in Queueing Networks · Wallaroo Labs
sys	Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
sys	Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
sys	Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M CCU
sys	Revisiting HTTP2 - YouTube

Until next time!

Spring 2018 tech reading

Hello again! This time I'm trying out a new way to publish my bookmarks. I've started to use Firefox bookmark tags and figured out a way to organize and export them without losing the tags. So here is your Spring 2018 tech reading in tabular form:

changelog,misc	Auto-generating a changelog from git history | Mozilla Web Development
changelog,misc	Devist - Keep your changelog clean.
changelog,misc	Effortlessly maintain a high quality change log with Git notes – Harrow.io
changelog,misc	Keep a Changelog
changelog,misc	conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog: Generate a changelog from git metadata
changelog,misc	marionebl/commitlint: 📓 Lint commit messages
data	Building and testing a distributed data store in Go - YouTube
data	Comparison of the Open Source OLAP Systems for Big Data: ClickHouse, Druid and Pinot
data	Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox
data	Meet Bandaid, the Dropbox service proxy | Dropbox Tech Blog
data	Peter Bailis: MacroBase, Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data Streams | Talks at Google - YouTube
data	Scaling Slack - YouTube
data	What Every Programmer has to know about Database Storage by Alex Petrov - YouTube
data	Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch | Fabian Reinartz
data,java	Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency
docker compose,testing,sys	Docker Compose · Testcontainers
docker compose,testing,sys	Link via an ambassador container | Docker Documentation
docker compose,testing,sys	dockerfiles/ambassador at master · SvenDowideit/dockerfiles
docker compose,testing,sys	rnorth/ambassador
docker compose,testing,sys	rnorth/tcp-unix-socket-proxy: Listens on a TCP port and proxies connections to a UNIX domain socket
docker compose,testing,sys	wurstmeister/kafka-docker: Dockerfile for Apache Kafka
docker,sys	Experiment To Suspend/Resume Docker Container With CRIU 2 | kim hirokuni
fun	Andy Fields on Twitter: "Front End vs. Back End… "
fun	Cameron Purdy's answer to Do tech companies hire non-CS majors for software engineering roles? - Quora
fun	MIT Self-Driving Cars: Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - YouTube
fun	Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You
fun	What the job position really means
fun,java	PRIMITIVE Deeplearning4j - YouTube
fun,sys	Growing the Site Reliability Team at LinkedIn: Hiring is Hard -- Greg Leffler - YouTube
go	5 Gotchas of Defer in Go (Golang) — Part II – Learn Go Programming
java	55 New Features in JDK 9 - Simon Ritter - YouTube
java	Beware of Java’s inconsistent MIN_VALUE – Kynosarges Weblog
java	Charles Nutter — More Than You Want to Know about Java's String - YouTube
java	Code Review Matters and Manners: Maria Khalusova, Trisha Gee on Vimeo
java	Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life - YouTube
java	Helping Linux and Java Play Well Together - YouTube
java	JDK 9: the performance bits or why you would really want to upgrade to Java 9 by Dmitry Vyazelenko - YouTube
java	JUnit 5 — New Opportunities for Testing on the JVM - Sam Brannen - YouTube
java	Java Autonomous Driving: Car Detection - DZone
java	Kubernetes for the Spring Developer - Meaghan Kjelland - YouTube
java	OptaPlanner - Java Reflection, but much faster
java	Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine with Ron Pressler - YouTube
java	Property-based testing in Java with JUnit-Quickcheck - Part 1: The basics — Xebia Blog
java	Ruby's Strings and What Java Can Learn From Them - YouTube
java	SpringBoot 2 performance — servlet stack vs WebFlux reactive stack
java	Top Ten Metrics for Evaluating your Garbage Collector - YouTube
java	Walkthrough: Tracking an Elasticsearch Java Client Sniffer Bug | FORTER
java	ZGC - Low Latency GC for OpenJDK with Stefan Karlsson and Per Liden - YouTube
java	[concurrency-interest] StampedLock happens-before with tryOptimisticRead() - Dr Heinz M. Kabutz - edu.oswego.cs.concurrency-interest - MarkMail
java,data	Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores
kafka,data	Consumer Group Internals: Rebalancing, Rebalancing.... -- Jason Gustafson & Onur Karaman, 8/23/16 - YouTube
kafka,data	Exactly-once Stream Processing with Kafka Streams - Confluent
kafka,data	How to choose the number of topics/partitions in a Kafka cluster? - Confluent
kafka,data	Kafka Controller Internals--Onur Karaman, LinkedIn (9/12/17) - YouTube
kafka,data	Multi-Tenant, Multi-Cluster and Hierarchical Kafka Messaging Service - Confluent
kafka,data	Providing Reliability Guarantees in Kafka at One Trillion Events Per Day - Confluent
kafka,data	Running Kafka for Maximum Pain - Confluent
kafka,data	Streaming Data Applications on Docker - Confluent

Until next time!

A curated list: Design, programming basics & common sense coding preferences

I've consolidated my basic programming and design reading list with my common sense coding preferences (It's a GitHub Gist):

Until next time!
Ashwin Jayaprakash