Fall 2017 tech reading

Hi folks, a belated Happy Halloween to you! Here's a small list of tech videos and Java articles that I thought were worth sharing.

Tech videos

• RedisConf17 - Are Cloud Infrastructure Companies Helping or Hurting - Salil Deshpande & Sam Ramji - YouTube
• ""go test -race" Under the Hood" by Kavya Joshi - YouTube
• Minimal Values Under the Hood with Bjorn Vardal @bvaardal and Frédéric Parain - YouTube
• Golang UK Conference 2017 | Achilleas Anagnostopoulos - Can you write an OS Kernel in Go? - YouTube
• "Runtime scheduling: theory and reality" by Eben Freeman - YouTube
• (Hilarious and brutally honest) Deconstructing REST Security by David Blevins - YouTube
• Shenandoah 2 0: Now That We’ve Gotten the GC Pause Times Under Control, What’s Next? - YouTube
• Running Consul at Massive Scale - YouTube
• Akka streams for high throughput data processing by Zack Loebel-Begelman - YouTube
• Vectors and Values with Vladimir Ivanov @iwan0www and Ian Graves - YouTube
• Brian Goetz - FP is Dead Long Live FP - YouTube
• Kubernetes meets Linux - Vishnu Kannan (Google) - YouTube
• ThreadSanitizer and Heap Sampling with Jaeheon Yi and Jean Christophe Beyler from Google - YouTube
• Optimizing JVM at Alibaba, for e-commerce apps running on 100,000+ servers with San Hong Li - YouTube
• Time-Based Aggregates: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Frank Lauterwald (noris network AG) - YouTube
• Keep Ruby Weird 2017- Learning to see by Ben Scofield - YouTube
• Hadoop Query Performance Smackdown - YouTube
• Boundaries - YouTube
• Format Wars: from VHS and Beta to Avro and Parquet - YouTube
• Automate your docs automate yourself by Chris Ward - YouTube
• Tyler McMullen - Load Balancing is Impossible - YouTube
• Pattern Matching with Brian Goetz @BrianGoetz - YouTube
• Tomer Gabel - How shit works: the CPU - YouTube
• Horizontally Scalable Relational Databases with Spark: Spark Summit East talk by Cody Koeninger - YouTube
• SREcon17 Asia/Australia: Golang's Garbage - YouTube
• InfluxDB Storage Engine Internals - YouTube
• The columnar roadmap Apache Parquet and Apache Arrow - YouTube
• GopherCon 2017: Marty Schoch - Building a High-Performance Key/Value Store in Go - YouTube
• GopherCon 2017: Keith Randall - Generating Better Machine Code with SSA - YouTube
• Flink in Containerland - Patrick Lucas (data Artisans) - YouTube
• Programming with Minimal Values with Maurizio Cimadamore - YouTube

Java

• (Java vs Go vs C) Perfkit - gRPC Performance Multi-language (@upstream/master)
• Everything you wanted to know about Stack Traces and Heap Dumps : Andrei Pangin on Vimeo
• Fast and Safe Production Monitoring of JVM Applications with BPF Magic
• Improving Akka dispatchers | Scalac
• java - Force tableswitch instead of lookupswitch - Stack Overflow
• JAVA and SIMD - Prestodb rocks!
• JavaZone 2017: How to find memory leaks even Yourkit can't find
• JEP 259: Stack-Walking API
• JEP 266: More Concurrency Updates
• JEP 285: Spin-Wait Hints
• New Methods in Java 9: Math.fma and Arrays.mismatch | Richard Startin
• The slow currentTimeMillis()
• TrigerSoft/jaque: Lets Java 8 Lambdas to be represented as objects in the form of expression trees at runtime
• Use Stream API simpler - Tagir Valeev

Java 9 and issues

• Java 9 Annotation Processing Broken · Issue #1472 · rzwitserloot/lombok
• fix issue #1440, #1472: wrap BasedFileManager for jdk9 by tmurakam · Pull Request #1495 · rzwitserloot/lombok
• Making JSR 305 Work On Java 9 - blog@CodeFX
• Stephen Colebourne's blog: Java SE 9 - JPMS automatic modules
• Fwd: Module naming for logging implementations
• Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps
• Can Java 9 Leverage AVX-512 Yet? | Richard Startin
• Java 9: A Look at Milling Project Coin - DZone Java

Go and other languages

• Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services · Segment Blog
• Context should go away for Go 2
• Go concurrency considered harmful Sargun Dhillon Medium
• Go Generics cartoon
• Nifty and useful features in C# 7
• So just how fast are channels anyway? Ravelin Tech
• Typed nils in Go 2 | Dave Cheney

Until next time! Ashwin Jayaprakash.

Mini experiments with Java lambdas

I dusted off some Java 8+ Lambda code snippets I had on my Github Gist. I watched a few JVMLS videos this month and found myself struggling to grasp the internals of MethodHandles and everything related.  So, I thought I should spend some time at least looking at the code it generates.


Until next time!
Ashwin Jayaprakash.

2017 late summer tech reading

Hi folks, here's some late summer reading if you are not busy watching TV!

Java

• Stuff Gil Says: Zing hits the trifecta
• Angular 4 for Java Developers by Yakov Fain - YouTube
• Real World Java 9 by Trisha Gee
• Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!
• How Java 8 Lambdas and Streams Can Make Your Code 5 Times Slower | Takipi Blog
• Vojin Jovanovic Polyglot on the JVM with Graal: One VM for Java, node.js, Ruby, R, and C++! - YouTube
• RxNetty vs Tomcat Performance Results
• Memory mapped files, allocation and JVM crash - MapDB
• Guide - Optimizing Paper - Remove lag spikes, Fix tps & Improve performance! | Aquifer
• Java 9: The Quest for Very Large Heaps by Nida Bouzid - YouTube
• Tracking Down Native Memory Leaks in Elasticsearch | Elastic
• Why does the G1 GC shrink number of regions? - Google Groups
• ctrueden/jrun: Launch Java code from the CLI. No installation, just Maven goodness.
• java - Math.abs returns wrong value for Integer.Min_VALUE - Stack Overflow

Misc tech

• Regex fun
• Regex Tutorial - Possessive Quantifiers
• Infinite loop in regex in java - Stack Overflow
• How to Kill Java with a Regular Expression - DZone Java
• (0*)*A = 00000000000000000: Online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript
• (0*)*A = 00000000000000000: Java regex tester
• regexp - The Go Programming Language
• Runaway Regular Expressions: Catastrophic Backtracking
• Building Accurate Shipment Schedules: A Sorted Affair
• A dive into spatial search algorithms Vladimir Agafonkin
• Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 3 - LLVM - Eli Bendersky's website
• The PMCs of EC2: Measuring IPC
• IODB storage engine - Input Output
• Fast. Faster. Freak: Why does my code slow down sometimes (and how to find out who's behind all this)?
• CPU Utilization is Wrong
• Two's Complement
• Lin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber (Read Persistent data structures too)
• Core Concepts ¬∑ Redux - like Struts on the browser
• ZeroTier | Connect All The Things libstdc++ broken
• Lockfree basics - 1024cores
• Realtime Editing of Ordered Sequences Figma Design
• An alternative approach to rate limiting Figma Design
• Architecting for Failures in Microservices by Bhakti Mehta - YouTube

Distributed systems

• Audience Insights query engine: In-memory integer store for social analytics | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code
• Consensus and Replication in Elasticsearch | Elastic
• Support load balancing with nginx dynamic upstreams ¬∑ Issue #157 ¬∑ Mashape/kong
• Amazon Aurora
• Introducing Badger: A fast key-value store written natively in Go - Dgraph Blog
• Beyond 50,000 Partitions: How Heroku Operates and Pushes the Limits of Kafka at Scale - YouTube
• Accordion: HBase Breathes with In-Memory Compaction : Apache HBase
• High-Availability Databases with etcd - Tess Rinearson, Chain - YouTube
• Intuitive Distributed Algorithms with F# - OSCON - Google Slides
• A Developer View into Spark's Memory Model - Wenchen Fan - YouTube
• Terraform Gotchas And How We Work Around Them - Heap Blog
• [cncf-toc] Continued InfraKit Discussion - Terraform vs others](https://lists.cncf.io/pipermail/cncf-toc/2017-June/000982.html)

Misc fun stuff

• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes Platformonomics
• Tad - A Desktop Viewer App for Tabular Data
• Why we are betting against real-time team messaging Ten Timezones
• Go 2

Until next time! Ashwin Jayaprakash.