More Summer 2024 reading

Hi. Here's some tech and non-tech reading for the rest of Summer (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify Twitter and my other feeds). I've started share some of my non-tech (mostly business and leadership) related reading too. Hope you enjoy it!

Tag(s)	Link
ai,java,ml	Java Meets AI: How to Build LLM-Powered Apps with LangChain4j and Lize Raes - YouTube
ai,java,ml,relnote	Jlama v0.2.0: Better Batching
ai,jvm,ml	AI and Kotlin: A Perfect Mix | Vladislav Tankov - YouTube
ai,ml	Index 2024 Talk: Vector Search and the FAISS Library - YouTube
ai,ml	Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? | Benedict Evans - The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck | Podcast on Spotify
biz	AI VC Bubble | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner - YouTube
biz	AI’s $600B Question | Sequoia Capital
biz	Bits To Billions: How Nithin Kamath Built Zerodha And Why He Doesnt Care About Being Rich - YouTube
biz	BuccoCapital Bloke on X: "What's Gone Wrong in SaaS"
biz	Hemant Mohapatra on X: "...fun story to tell...AMD engg..."
biz	How Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez Says AI Will Directly Profit Companies - YouTube
biz	Lemkin on X: "... venture capital turns out to be a pretty tough business..."
biz	Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs's CEO Raj Dutt and Lightspeed's Alex Kayyal - YouTube
biz	Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience - YouTube
biz	State of startup compensation, H2 2023
biz	The Gili Ra’anan model: Questions emerging from Cyberstarts' remarkable success | Ctech
biz	Zapier’s Mike Knoop launches ARC Prize to Jumpstart New Ideas for AGI - Training Data | Podcast on Spotify
cloud,security	Is LLM all you need for Cloudtrail analysis - Rex Guo & Diane Lin - YouTube
concurrent,test	Properly Testing Concurrent Data Structures
data	Best practices and insights when migrating to Apache Iceberg for data engineers - YouTube
data	Branimir Lambov – Applications of Tries in Apache Cassandra - YouTube
data	Build A Data Lake For Your Security Logs With Scanner - Data Engineering Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
data	Building and scaling Notion’s data lake
data	Enhancing data governance in Trino with the OpenLineage integration - YouTube
data	How Discord Uses Open-Source Tools for Scalable Data Orchestration & Transformation
data	Nimble, a new file format for large datasets - YouTube
data	PGConf India 2023 - Deep dive of usage of Postgres in Zerodha by Satyajit Sarangi (Zerodha) - YouTube
data	Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg - ParadeDB
data	Reducing query cost and query runtimes of Trino powered analytics platforms - YouTube
data	Understanding Apache Paimon's Consistency Model Part 1 — Jack Vanlightly
data,graph	Leverage graph technology for real-time Fraud Detection and Prevention | by Deepak Patankar | Booking.com Engineering | Jul, 2024 | Medium
data,java	In-Memory Analytics for Kafka using DuckDB – Robert Yokota
data,relnote	Announcing Tembo Series A | Tembo
data,relnote	The economics of a Postgres free tier
java	Beyond Built-in: Advanced Testing Techniques for Spring Boot Applications by Michael Vitz @ SpringIO - YouTube
java	Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool @ Spring I/O 2024 - YouTube
java	Java meets TypeScript: full-stack web app development with Spring Boot and React by Marcus Hellberg - YouTube
java	Making Spring Cloud Gateway your perfect API gateway solution by Dan Erez @ Spring I/O 2024 - YouTube
java	Mind the gap, connecting high performance systems at a leading Crypto Exchange @ Spring I/O 2024 - YouTube
java	Unit Test Your Spring Architecture With ArchUnit by Roland Weisleder @ Spring I/O 2024 - YouTube
java	When Armeria Blooms in Spring (Boot) by Trustin Heuiseung Lee @ Spring I/O 2024 - YouTube
java,ml	[VDTRIESTE24] Unleashing the Power of Vector Search and Semantic Caching in Java - by Luigi Fugaro - YouTube
java,observability	Micrometer Mastery: Unleash Advanced Observability in your JVM Apps by Tommy Ludwig & Jonatan Ivanov - YouTube
java,observability	Navigating the Complexities of Service To Service Invocations: Deep And Brief Dive Into Causality - YouTube
k8s,security	BSidesSF 2024 - Effective Detection in Kubernetes Clusters (Shay Berkovich, Oren Ofer) - YouTube
kotlin	DataFrame: Kotlin's Innovative Approach to Data Structures | Roman Belov - YouTube
kotlin	Debugging the Future: Exploring Coroutine Debugger Tools | Nikita Nazarov - YouTube
kotlin	Generating Kotlin SDKs with Smithy – Ian Botsford, Aaron Todd - YouTube
misc	#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment • Grit
misc	Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv
observability	Building a Culture of Observability - YouTube
observability	Managing Observability Data at the Edge with the OpenTelemetry Collector and OTTL - Evan Bradley - YouTube
relnote,system	Bufstream: Kafka at 10x lower cost - Buf
relnote,system	How AutoMQ addresses the disk read side effects in Apache Kafka | AutoMQ
relnote,system	Vector Databases: Using Vector Search with Graph and Key-Value Queries | Aerospike Summit Paris 2024 - YouTube
relnote,system	turbopuffer's architecture
rust,system	sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services
security	Turso completed SOC2 Type II compliance with zero issues
system	Benchmarking ARM processors: Graviton 4, Graviton 3 and Apple M2 – Daniel Lemire's blog
system	How Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit | Quickwit
system	LIquid: a Large-Scale Relational Graph Database - InfoQ
system	Logging at Zerodha - Zerodha Tech Blog
system	Systems @Scale 2024 - YouTube
system	Testing Distributed Systems the right way ft. Will Wilson - YouTube
system	Timeseries Indexing at Scale | Datadog

Until next time!

Trip to Oregon

Here's a summary of our trip to Oregon. (Or ask your favorite AI "Give me a 7 day itinerary for family with kids to Oregon")

Day 1 - Start:

• Fly from San Francisco, CA to Redmond, OR.
• Rent a car and drive from Redmond to Bend, OR.
• Visit Lava Lands Visitor Center.
• Explore Breweries in Bend.
• Stay at hotel in Bend, OR.

 

Day 2 - Bend, OR:

• Park & Float Tumalo Creek.
• Explore Food Trucks in Bend.
• Bike along the Deschutes river.

 

Day 3 - Bend, OR:

• Hiking near Dillon Falls.
• Ski lift to Mt. Bachelor.
• Explore Breweries in Bend.

 

Day 4 - Mt Hood, OR:

• Drive to Smith Rock State Park.
• Drive to Mt. Hood.
• Drive to Troutdale, OR.
• Stay at hotel in Troutdale, OR.
• Explore Food Trucks in Troutdale.

 

Day 5 - Portland area, OR:

• Drive to Canon Beach, OR.

 

Day 6 - Portland area, OR:

• Explore Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.
• Explore Food Trucks in Troutdale.

 

Day 7 - Return:

• Explore Portland (The Grotto and Rocky Butte Natural Area).
• Return rental car at Portland, OR.
• Fly from Portland, OR to San Francisco, CA.