Happy Halloween! It's been a while, but here's my list of "good reads" (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify, Twitter, Bluesky and my other feeds).
| Tag(s) |
Link |
| ai | Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline - YouTube |
| ai | Steer your RAG agent with Jev, Here’s How - YouTube |
| ai | Z.AI And The Chinese Open Source Moment - YouTube |
| architecture | Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) - Finding the files that need the most attention | Ben E. C. Boyter |
| data | Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads — Manish R Jain |
| data | How Razorpay refreshes its data warehouse 10x faster with graphs and indexes - YouTube |
| data | Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster | MotherDuck |
| java | ADTs (Algebraic Data Types) in Java | Rock the JVM |
| java | Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) in Java - YouTube |
| java | Close to the Metal: Modern Low-Latency Development - YouTube |
| java | Embracing Virtual Threads with Helidon [I/O] Inside Java Podcast 65 - YouTube |
| java | Escaping Java's Allocation Gravity with Value Classes By Clément de Tastes, Remi Forax - YouTube |
| java | Everyday JSON in Java - YouTube |
| java | Hardwood: Building a Parquet Parser From Scratch With a Little Help From AI by Gunnar Morling - YouTube |
| java | Implementing Efficient Last Stream Elements Gatherer in Java |
| java | Java - The Year of the Runtime! - YouTube |
| java | Just-In-Time Compilation for Java Performance: Recent and Ongoing Improvements - YouTube |
| java | Making Arena.ofConfined() Even Cheaper in JDK 28 - Inside.java |
| java | OOP vs. Data-Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose? - YouTube |
| java | Quarkus Insights #256: What is Floci? - YouTube |
| java | Teaching an Old Handle New Tricks: From Core Reflection to FFM by Maurizio Cimadamore, Viktor Klang - YouTube |
| java | To Cache or Not to Cache Virtual Threads - Quarkus |
| java | TornadoVM v8.0.0: Meet TC, TornadoVM's Own Compiler |
| java | Under the Hood: How Lucene 10+ leverages Java 21 features - Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 - YouTube |
| java | Will Valhalla Fix Tony's Billion Dollar Mistake? by José Paumard, Remi Forax - YouTube |
| rust,system | TokioConf 2026 - Zero-Copy Chaos. When everything you knew about tokio... by Wojciech Kargul - YouTube |
| system | Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming - bitdrift Blog |
| system | Computers are bad, actually | Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen - YouTube |
| system | Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower — PlanetScale |
| system | Git at any scale · Cursor |
| system | How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug |
| system | Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents | AWS Open Source Blog |
| system | Introduction to property-based testing, by Antithesis & Alperen Keles - YouTube |
| system | Open-Sourcing Streaming Proof: Verifying Ordering and Delivery Guarantees | StreamNative |
| system | Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026 - YouTube |
| system | The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScale |
| system | The place where leaking abstraction, data races and security vulnerabilities all meet - YouTube |
| system | We are replacing RocksDB with SurrealKV 1.0 | SurrealDB |
| system | We won, what now? | Will Wilson | Bug Bash 2026 - YouTube |
Until next time!
