Saturday, October 31, 2026

Fall reading - 2026

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
aiOpen Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline - YouTube
aiSteer your RAG agent with Jev, Here’s How - YouTube
aiZ.AI And The Chinese Open Source Moment - YouTube
architectureSloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) - Finding the files that need the most attention | Ben E. C. Boyter
dataEgres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads — Manish R Jain
dataHow Razorpay refreshes its data warehouse 10x faster with graphs and indexes - YouTube
dataWhy DuckDB 2.0 is faster | MotherDuck
javaADTs (Algebraic Data Types) in Java | Rock the JVM
javaAlgebraic Data Types (ADTs) in Java - YouTube
javaClose to the Metal: Modern Low-Latency Development - YouTube
javaEmbracing Virtual Threads with Helidon [I/O] Inside Java Podcast 65 - YouTube
javaEscaping Java's Allocation Gravity with Value Classes By Clément de Tastes, Remi Forax - YouTube
javaEveryday JSON in Java - YouTube
javaHardwood: Building a Parquet Parser From Scratch With a Little Help From AI by Gunnar Morling - YouTube
javaImplementing Efficient Last Stream Elements Gatherer in Java
javaJava - The Year of the Runtime! - YouTube
javaJust-In-Time Compilation for Java Performance: Recent and Ongoing Improvements - YouTube
javaMaking Arena.ofConfined() Even Cheaper in JDK 28 - Inside.java
javaOOP vs. Data-Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose? - YouTube
javaQuarkus Insights #256: What is Floci? - YouTube
javaTeaching an Old Handle New Tricks: From Core Reflection to FFM by Maurizio Cimadamore, Viktor Klang - YouTube
javaTo Cache or Not to Cache Virtual Threads - Quarkus
javaTornadoVM v8.0.0: Meet TC, TornadoVM's Own Compiler
javaUnder the Hood: How Lucene 10+ leverages Java 21 features - Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 - YouTube
javaWill Valhalla Fix Tony's Billion Dollar Mistake? by José Paumard, Remi Forax - YouTube
rust,systemTokioConf 2026 - Zero-Copy Chaos. When everything you knew about tokio... by Wojciech Kargul - YouTube
systemAnnouncing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming - bitdrift Blog
systemComputers are bad, actually | Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen - YouTube
systemConcurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower — PlanetScale
systemGit at any scale · Cursor
systemHow Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
systemIntroducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents | AWS Open Source Blog
systemIntroduction to property-based testing, by Antithesis & Alperen Keles - YouTube
systemOpen-Sourcing Streaming Proof: Verifying Ordering and Delivery Guarantees | StreamNative
systemReliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026 - YouTube
systemThe lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScale
systemThe place where leaking abstraction, data races and security vulnerabilities all meet - YouTube
systemWe are replacing RocksDB with SurrealKV 1.0 | SurrealDB
systemWe won, what now? | Will Wilson | Bug Bash 2026 - YouTube

Until next time!

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