Saturday, August 01, 2026

Summer reading - 2026

Some reading before Summer wraps (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify, Twitter, Bluesky and my other feeds).

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aiAgent orchestration, simplified - YouTube
aiBenchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks’ Multi-Million Line Codebase | Databricks Blog
aiBeyond local tools: Deep dive into MCP with Spring AI by James Ward / Maximilian Schellhorn - YouTube
aiBurnout Will Go Up, and We’re Doing It to Ourselves with Nathen Harvey - YouTube
aiContributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban | Loris Cro's Blog
aiHarness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer - YouTube
aiHow does Claude Code *actually* work? - YouTube
aiHow to Automate AI Evals (Correctly) - YouTube
aiHow to Prepare for Coding Interviews (with HackerRank) - YouTube
aiI Hated Every Coding Agent, So I Built My Own — Mario Zechner (Pi) - YouTube
aiNothing has changed about software engineering | Ben Eggers | Bug Bash 2026 - YouTube
aiSkill Distillation | Tomasz Tunguz
aiThe layoffs will continue till we learn to use AI
aiUber: Leading engineering through an agentic shift - The Pragmatic Summit - YouTube
aiUsing LLM in the shebang line of a script | Simon Willison’s TILs
aiWeek 2: Interning at a YC startup
aiWhat you need to learn from claw-code repo
ai,javaDevnexus 2026 - Keynote - Its Up To Java Developers to Fix Enterprise AI - Rod Johnson - YouTube
data30x faster than Prometheus: How we rebuilt Elasticsearch as a leading columnar metrics datastore - Elasticsearch Labs
dataApache Fluss: A Streaming Storage for Real-Time Lakehouse (Jark Wu) - YouTube
dataApache Gluten at Microsoft William Chen, Microsoft - YouTube
dataDataFusion + DuckLake — Zac Farrell | Data Debug SF - YouTube
dataDemocratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph | by Netflix Technology Blog | May, 2026 | Netflix TechBlog
dataDuckDB-Quack Announcement at AI Council 2026 - YouTube
dataFrom Storage Formats to Open Governance: The Evolution to Apache Polaris (Prashant Singh) - YouTube
dataHartmut Armbruster – What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along #bbuzz - YouTube
dataMatthias Niehoff – DuckDB beyond the notebook #bbuzz - YouTube
dataOpen Source Friday with Gunnar Morling with Hardwood - YouTube
dataScott Haines: Unifying Open Lakehouse Governance via Policy Portability, Seattle/Bellevue April 2026 - YouTube
dataThe Deconstructed Database at Datadog - YouTube
dataWriting Custom Table Providers in Apache DataFusion - Apache DataFusion Blog
data​Performant Interactive Queries | Jayant Shrivastava, Gene Bordegaray, Justin O'Dwyer, Datadog - YouTube
data,javaAnkit Jain – From Inverted Index to Columnar Vectorized Execution Search #bbuzz - YouTube
data,javaHardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM - Gunnar Morling
data,java,relnoteIntroducing Apache DataFusion Java 0.1.0 - Apache DataFusion Blog
golang,systemP99 CONF 2025 | Parsing Protobuf as Fast as Possible by Miguel Young de la Sota - YouTube
java#JavaNext Language Features - YouTube
javaHow Netflix Uses Java - 2026 Edition - YouTube
javaJDK 8 to 25 Without the Pain - Engineering a Modern Java Platform - YouTube
javaJava 26: Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime - YouTube
javaJava AOT in Production at Netflix - YouTube
javaJava Memory Management Best Practices - YouTube
javaJava is Memory Efficient - Inside Java Podcast 59 - YouTube
javaNative and AI Interoperability with JDK 25 and the FFM API - YouTube
javaOn HotSpot Error Files and Useful Tools - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
javaPractical Python AI in Java with GraalPy - Sachin Pikle - YouTube
javaQuarkus Community Call: Quarkus 4 - Migration to Vert.x 5 & SmallRye Common I/O archive support - YouTube
javaReflecting on HAT: A Project Babylon Case Study - YouTube
javaSIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM - Auto Vectorization and the Vector API - YouTube
javaScaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules | by Netflix Technology Blog | May, 2026 | Netflix TechBlog
javaSpring Native: The Future of Fast and Efficient Spring Applications by Alina Yurenko @ Spring I/O - YouTube
javaThe .join() That Should Be a Bug | Kronotop
javaThe Java Agent Skills Kit - by Markus Eisele
java,rust10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java (and 5 Things Java Should Probably Steal Back) by Scott Gerring - YouTube
java,systemAPI Gateway Performance Doubling in Practice (English) · GitBook
java,systemApache Cassandra Contributor Meeting | June 10th, 2026 - YouTube
java,wasmBytecode Alliance — Endive and the Next Chapter of WebAssembly on the JVM
java,wasmEndive: Java Virtual Machine meets WebAssembly on CNCF wasmCloud - YouTube
jvmConcurrency Patterns for Modern High Performance Kotlin Servers | Bowen Feng - YouTube
jvm,systemSandboxing Script Extensions with GraalVM | by Christian Humer | graalvm | Jul, 2026 | Medium
miscHow I Doubled eBay’s Productivity - And Still Got Fired - YouTube
rust,systemRust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD
rust,systemSlateDB: An Object-Native LSM for Online Systems — SlateDB
rust,systemTokioConf 2026 - Building a Production Control Plane with Tokio by Pooja Kale - YouTube
systemAWS re:Invent 2025 - Large-scale software deployments: Inside Amazon S3’s release pipeline (STG352) - YouTube
systemEveryone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon
systemFinding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks | by Pinterest Engineering | Pinterest Engineering Blog | Apr, 2026 | Medium
systemFrom fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI - YouTube
systemHow OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | OpenAI
systemMany Databases 1 LSM Engine - OpenData - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Building a Fast Lock-free Queue for Trading Systems by Sarthak Sehgal - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Squeezing Every Millisecond: How We Rebuilt the Datadog Lambda by AJ Stuyvenberg - YouTube
systemSupercharging Redpanda Streaming with profile-guided optimization
systemThe performance bug hiding in our billing settings | Oblique
systemUnlocked Conference — Towards Faster Inference, Daniela Miao (Momento) & Samuel Shen (Tensormesh) - YouTube
systemUnlocked conference - Beyond fork: Memory-Efficient Snapshots for Valkey - Jim Brunner (AWS) - YouTube
systemZero Bloat Postgres Queue | Scaling Postgres 416 - YouTube

Until next time!

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