Saturday, June 21, 2025

Summer 2025 - Mostly Tech reading

Summer is officially here (in the Northern hemisphere), so here's a bunch of stuff to read or watch. Hope you enjoy it (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify, Twitter, Bluesky and my other feeds).

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ai278 | Breaking Analysis | Despite AI Momentum, Tech Spending Faces Continued Uncertainty - YouTube
aiAI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now - The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck | Podcast on Spotify
aiAI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users • Buttondown
aiAgents reported thousands of bugs, how many were real? - Ian Butler and Nick Gregory - YouTube
aiBlender MCP and The Future Of Creative Tools - Siddharth Ahuja - YouTube
aiBuilding and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil - YouTube
aiEfficient GPU infrastructure at LinkedIn // Animesh Singh // MLOps Podcast #299 - YouTube
aiHow Cisco Automated 60% of 1.8 Million Support Cases | LangChain Interrupt - YouTube
aiHow we built an AI-powered code reviewer in 80 hours - Yan Cui at JOTB25 - YouTube
aiInterrupt 2025 Keynote | Harrison Chase | LangChain - YouTube
aiLLMs for Data Science - YouTube
aiQuadratic: The AI Spreadsheet - YouTube
aiThe Highly Uncertain Future of OpenAI's Dominance - YouTube
aiThe Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular) - YouTube
aiTrillions-to-Reality: How SambaNova’s Memory-Centric Design Powers Agentic AI & GenAI Workflows - YouTube
aiWhere Is AI Delivering ROI? - YouTube
ai,securityCybersecurity Isn't Ready for Agent Based Systems - YouTube
ai,securityThe Telltale Signs of AI-Generated Emails: Building a Detection Engine - YouTube
ai,securityThe lethal trifecta for AI agents
dataEmbedding OLAP, Everywhere Lessons from Okta - YouTube
dataIt’s Time We Talked About Time: Exploring Watermarks (And More) In Flink SQL
dataLakehouse with ClickHouse - YouTube
dataPrestoCon Day 2025 TSC Keynote - YouTube
dataUber’s Innovations in OpenSearch for a Cloud Native, Serverless... Pallavi Priyadarshini & Yupeng Fu - YouTube
data,javaUwe Schindler – State of native access in Apache Lucene #bbuzz - YouTube
data,relnoteSpark Release 4.0.0 | Apache Spark
data,sqlDuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format – DuckDB
data,sqlInstant Preview Mode Real Time Feedback to Make SQL Data Exploration Fly - YouTube
data,sqlSwiftLake: Bringing Apache Iceberg and DuckDB Together for a Smarter Data Management - Varunkumar - YouTube
data,systemClickHouse at OpenAI: Scaling ClickHouse to Petabytes of Logs - YouTube
data,systemHacking Postgres Executor For Performance | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 - YouTube
data,systemPowering up OpenSearch: A Journey of How OpenSearch Became Faster at Indexing - Mohit Godwani
data,systemScaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 - YouTube
data,systemTembo with Adam Hendel • Rust in Production
data,wasmCompiling Postgres to WASM with PGlite (PGConf.dev 2025) - YouTube
golangA 10x Faster TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | BRK116 - YouTube
javaAbout Amazon Corretto • airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
javaApache Storm, Disruptor, JCTools and Linearizability - airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien | Podcast on Spotify
javaHelidon and AI - Building Intelligent Applications - YouTube
javaInterconnecting Java and Native Code with the FFM API - YouTube
javaJava 24, Faster Than Ever - YouTube
javaJava 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1) - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
javaJava Enable Preview: Foreign Function and Memory Interface - Daniel Hinojosa
javaJava Enable Preview: Vector API - Daniel Hinojosa - YouTube
javaJava’s Structured Concurrency: Finally Finding Its Footing
javaTaming the Bias: Unbiased* Safepoint-Based Stack Walking in JFR - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
javaWhere is the Java language going?
misc50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie - YouTube
miscA Modern Data Stack in Healthcare - YouTube
miscHow To Reverse Engineer Anything Even If You Don't Have One! - YouTube
miscI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 - YouTube
miscOpen Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads - YouTube
miscPkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Java Apps and Infrastructure James Ward Backend - YouTube
observabilityLogHouse: How ClickHouse Built our Internal Logging Platform - YouTube
rust2,000x faster route propagation by rewriting our Traefik gateway in Rust
rustJust make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story | All Things Distributed
rustThe Concurrency Trap: How An Atomic Counter Stalled A Pipeline - Conviva
rustWhy your async Rust is slow (tokio doesn't make this easy!) - YouTube
securityThe Unofficial Guide to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute - YouTube
swiftSwift.org - Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java
systemBuilding a Distributed Cache for S3
systemBuilding the Next Generation of Real Time Data Pipelines: Data Mesh and Streaming SQL at Netflix - YouTube
systemDeterministic simulation testing for async Rust
systemGCP Incident Report Jiune 2025
systemHigh-throughput streaming in Lakehouse with Non-Blocking Concurrency Control in Apache Flink & Hudi - YouTube
systemInternals of SlateDB: An Embedded Key Value Store Built On Object Storage - YouTube
systemIntroducing S2
systemKafka: The End of the Beginning - by Chris
systemPowering a Petabyte-Scale Cache: Uber’s Alluxio Implementation - YouTube
systemProcessing 1M Identity Graphs per Second with Spark Structured Streaming - YouTube
systemValkey clusters unboxed | Harkrishn Patro, Software engineer at AWS - YouTube
systemWhat Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 - YouTube
systemWhy Make Apache Kafka Diskless? (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat) - YouTube

Until next time!