New year 2024 tech reading

Hi there! Wish you a Happy New Year! Here's some tech reading (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
cloud	How fast is CloudTrail today? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena
cloud	The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
cloud	re:Invent 2023 recap - Chris Farris
data	AWS re:Invent 2023 - Netflix’s journey to an Apache Iceberg–only data lake (NFX306) - YouTube
data	Build a BLAZINGLY FAST key-value store with Rust | Tung Le Vo
data	ClickHouse is in the house | by Zeev Feldbeine | Vimeo Engineering Blog
data	Clickhouse - Everything you should know about materialized views
data	How we built vector search in the cloud. - YouTube
data	Intro to Proton: A Single Binary for Streaming and Historical Analysis - YouTube
data	Introducing pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible, schema migrations for Postgres
data	Introduction to Apache Doris: A Next Generation Real-Time Data Warehouse - YouTube
data	Spirit | More Resilient MySQL Schema Changes at Scale
data	Streaming Machine Learning with Flink, Pulsar & Iceberg - Pulsar Summit NA 2023 - YouTube
data	Transitioning to Trino - Lyft at Trino Summit 2023 - YouTube
data	Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine
data	Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses at Broad
data	Yeeting over 30k messages per second on Postgres with Tembo MQ | Tembo
data	clickhouse-local vs DuckDB on Two Billion Rows of Costs
data	https://engineeringat.axis.com/schema-changes-clickhouse/
data,system	Inherent race in cache invalidation - Starburst at Trino Summit 2023 - YouTube
data,system	Some highlights from "Achieving scale with Amazon Aurora Limitless Database" with David Wein and Christopher Heim
java	Announcing jox: Fast and Scalable Channels in Java
java	Another VS Code Extension For Java ? - YouTube
java	Benchmark JDBC connectors and Java 21 virtual threads | MariaDB
java	Carl's Blog: Accidental Class Loading in Java
java	Demystifying Virtual Thread Performance: Unveiling the Truth Beyond the Buzz - DZone
java	From C to Java Code using Panama | Mostly nerdless
java	Getting Started with Generational ZGC - YouTube
java	Hello eBPF: Developing eBPF Apps in Java (1) - Mostly nerdlessMostly nerdless
java	How Project Valhalla And JSpecify Can Kill NPEs - YouTube
java	JDK 21: The GCs keep getting better
java	JVM Anatomy 101 - YouTube
java	Java 22 Unpacking - Inside Java Newscast #59 - YouTube
java	Java Scoped Values: Better ThreadLocals · RealJenius.com
java	Java, null, and JSpecify - YouTube
java	Jupyter Notebooks and Java? - JVM Advent
java	Project Leyden By Brian Goetz - YouTube
java	The One Billion Row Challenge - Gunnar Morling
java	Tracking Java Native Memory With JDK Flight Recorder - Gunnar Morling
java	Understanding Request Latency with Profiling | Richard Startin’s Blog
java	Unleash the Power of Open-Source Java Profilers | Johannes Bechberger (EN) - YouTube
java	Your Java Application Is Slow? Check Out These Open-Source Profilers - YouTube
java,data	Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins | QuestDB
java,data,ann	Apache Lucene 9.9, the fastest Lucene release ever — Elastic Search Labs
java,fun	IntelliJ Tip - Custom Project Icon
java,k8s	Java Performance on Kubernetes | Carlos Barragan (EN) - YouTube
java,k8s	Testcontainers: The Simplest Way to Test Kubernetes Operators - AtomicJar
java,observability	Profiler plugin for IntelliJ based on JFR and async-profiler
java,observability	PromCon 2023 - Prometheus Java Client 1.0.0 - YouTube
java,system	Boosting Performance in Apache Pulsar 3.0 and Beyond - Pulsar Summit NA 2023 - YouTube
java,system	Java API Performance Improvements | RocksDB
java,wasm	A Return to WebAssembly for the Java Geek - JVM Advent
k8s	Why You Should Keep Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes | by Denilson Nastacio | Medium
k8s	eBPF - Kubernetes Network Security without the Blind Sides! - YouTube
observability	OpenTelemetry Tools You Should Never Leave the House Without - YouTube
observability	PromCon 2023 - Learning From Mistakes – Choosing the Right Metrics for Prometheus Alerting - YouTube
observability	PromCon 2023 - Towards making Prometheus OpenTelemetry native - YouTube
rust	Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
rust	Incremental Rust builds in CI - Earthly Blog
rust	`for await` and the battle of buffered streams - Tyler Mandry
rust	poll_progress
security,k8s	IceKube: Finding complex attack paths in Kubernetes clusters | WithSecure™ Labs
security,k8s	Security Showdown: The Overconfident Operator Vs the Nefarious N... Whitney Lee & Lewis Denham-Parry - YouTube
security,k8s,cloud	Deep dive into the new Amazon EKS Cluster Access Management features | Datadog Security Labs
system	Building Streaming on S3 - YouTube
system	End to End Secure Deployment: Safeguard Data Flow & Protect Against Threats - Pulsar Summit NA 2023 - YouTube
system	LiveGraph - Scaling Real-Time Data Access | Braden Walker - YouTube
system	Load Balancing
system	Solving Espresso’s scalability and performance challenges to support our member base | LinkedIn Engineering
system	Welcome Keynote by Matteo Merli - Pulsar Summit NA 2023 - YouTube
system	Zero-Downtime Live Migration of Stateful VMs on Kubernetes - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs - YouTube
ui,system	Scaling Dagster’s DAG visualization to handle tens of thousands of assets | Dagster Blog

Until next time!

Fall 2023 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some tech reading (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
ai	Building the Astra Assistant - YouTube
cloud,security	From soup to nuts: Building a Detection-as-Code pipeline | by David French (@threatpunter) | threatpunter
data	A super simple and highly customizable Modern Data Stack (MDS) in a box using dlt and MotherDuck | by Rahul Joshi | Aug, 2023 | Medium
data	Embedded databases (1): The harmony of DuckDB, KùzuDB and LanceDB · The Data Quarry
data	Scylla Summit 2022: How ScyllaDB Powers This Next Tech Cycle - YouTube
data	Wes McKinney - The Road to Composable Data Systems: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years and the Future
fun	Size Matters - Lessons Learned from Modernizing Large Java Applications | Ben Wilson (EN) - YouTube
golang	Structured Logging for the Standard Library - Jonathan Amsterdam - YouTube
java	Continuations - Under the Covers - YouTube
java	Create an Eco-Friendly World with Green Software Engineering | Ko Turk & Ionut Balosin (EN) - YouTube
java	From CPU to GPU and FPGAs: Supercharging Java Applications with TornadoVM - YouTube
java	Generational ZGC and Beyond - YouTube
java	How to monitor Quarkus native executables with JFR | Red Hat Developer
java	Java 21 API New Features #RoadTo21 - YouTube
java	Java 21 JVM & GC Improvements #RoadTo21 - YouTube
java	Java 21 new feature: Virtual Threads #RoadTo21 - YouTube
java	Java 21: So How Should We Construct Strings Now? | by Nataliia Dziubenko | Aug, 2023 | Better Programming
java	Java and GPU … are we nearly there yet? - YouTube
java	Minborg's Java Pot: Java 22: Panama FFM Provides Massive Performance Improvements for Native Strings
java	Project Leyden - Capturing Lightning in a Bottle - YouTube
java	Project Panama - Foreign Function & Memory API - YouTube
java	Questions regarding Continuations in Java
java	The Challenges of Introducing Virtual Threads to the Java Platform - Project Loom - YouTube
java	Timefold - How fast is Java 21?
java	Understanding Request Latency with Profiling | Richard Startin’s Blog
java	Upgrading from Java 17 to 21 #RoadTo21 - YouTube
java	Value Objects in Valhalla - YouTube
java,ai	Aaron Ploetz and Mary Grygleski's with special guest, Jake Luciani, on our Weekly Chat on Real-time AI and Java
java,golang	Welcome to Jacobin JVM | jacobin
java,rust	A JVM in Rust part 5 - Executing instructions · Andrea Bergia's Website
java,rust	Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database | QuestDB
java,system	Cassandra Performance Tuning Like You've Been Doing It For Ten Years | Apache Cassandra® Town Hall - YouTube
rust	Async Rust Is A Bad Language
rust	Learning Async Rust With Entirely Too Many Web Servers
system	24/7 State Replication - YouTube
system	Confluent’s Kora Engine awarded ‘Best Industry Paper’ at VLDB
system	GeeCON 2023: Rafal Foltynski, Nick Palmer - Determinedly deterministic and how it can help you - YouTube
system	Hot Deploying Low-Latency Services for 24/7 Operation • Martin Thompson • YOW! 2022 - YouTube
system	Scaling search to terabytes on a budget | Quickwit
system	TigerBeetle - A Transactional World by Joran Dirk Greef - YouTube
system	TigerBeetle - How We Use Zig by King Protty - YouTube
system	TigerBeetle - Storage Engine by Chaitanya Bhandari, Rafael Batiati and Federico Lorenzi - YouTube
system	monday.com's Multi-Regional Architecture: A Deep Dive - monday Engineering
wasm	Keynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly - YouTube
zig	Ghostty: A New Terminal Emulator Written in Zig - Mitchell Hashimoto - YouTube

Until next time!

Summer 2023 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some tech reading as you prepare for your Summer break (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
cloud	How Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
data	Asset-Based Data Orchestration (from DATA + AI Summit 2023) - YouTube
data	Berlin Buzzwords 2023: The Debate Returns (with more vectors): Which Search Engine? - YouTube
data	Building Better Analytics Pipelines - YouTube
data	CDC Stream Processing with Apache Flink - YouTube
data	Cassandra@Scale: A Deep Dive into Apache Cassandra 4.0 | Dinesh Joshi - YouTube
data	Change Data Streaming Patterns With Debezium & Apache Flink | Decodable - YouTube
data	Exploring the Trends of Data Streaming: My Takeaways from Kafka Summit London 2023 | by Yingjun Wu | May, 2023 | Medium
data	How Amazon RDS Replication Works and Why the FAA's Database Problem Won't Happen in AWS | OtterTune
data	Joins 13 Ways
data	Lakehouse at Fortune 1 Scale. Walmart systems produce one of the… | by Samuel Guleff | Walmart Global Tech Blog | May, 2023 | Medium
data	Olena Kutsenko - ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database - YouTube
data	Tabular at Trino Fest - CDC patterns in Apache Iceberg - YouTube
data	The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most | OtterTune
fun	Boost your productivity by engineering your engineering tools! by Martin Kanters and Guus de Wit - YouTube
fun,system	SoftwareMill Kafka Visualization
fun,web	Rapid server side full stack web development with ViewComponents and htmx by Thomas Schuehly - YouTube
java	A New GraalVM Release and New Free License! | by Alina Yurenko | graalvm | Jun, 2023 | Medium
java	All That is in Java 21?! 😱 - Inside Java Newscast #50 - YouTube
java	Cracking the scalability wall by Francesco Nigro & Sanne Grinovero - YouTube
java	Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java by Venkat Subramaniam - YouTube
java	Doing cool data science in Java: how 4 DataFrame libraries (and duckdb) stack up | by Mathijs Vogelzang | Medium
java	Preparing web applications for Loom by Mark Thomas @ Spring I/O 2023 - YouTube
java	Robert Metzger - Tiny Flink — Minimizing the memory footprint of Apache Flink - YouTube
java	Spring I/O 2023 - Keynote - YouTube
java	The Next Frontier in Open Source Java Compilers: Just-in-Time Compilation as a Service- Rich Hagarty - YouTube
java	Uwe Schindler - What's coming next with Apache Lucene? - YouTube
java	Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency in Java 21 With Loom - YouTube
java	[VDBUH2023] - Ionuț Baloșin & Florin Blănaru - JVM Performance Comparison - YouTube
java,perf	glowroot/glowroot: Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM
java,security	Fine-grained authorization for Quarkus microservices | Red Hat Developer
java,security	Securing Cloud Native Microservices with Role-Based Access Control using Keycloak | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
k8s	Houston Putman - Rethinking Autoscaling for Apache Solr using Kubernetes - YouTube
k8s	Is CUE The Perfect Language For Kubernetes Manifests (Helm Templates Replacement)? - YouTube
k8s	Kubernetes Was Never Designed for Batch Jobs | by Meadowrun | Better Programming
k8s	WG Batch: What’s New and What Is Next? - Swati Sehgal, Red Hat & Aldo Culquicondor, Google - YouTube
k8s,system	Kubernetes Probes: How to Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot by Colin Breck - J On The Beach 2023 - YouTube
k8s,test	Ram Mohan Rao Chukka - Who broke the build? Using Kuttl to test and Release faster - YouTube
kotlin	GeeCON 2022: Marcin Moskała - Efficient Kotlin - YouTube
rust,fun	Writing Python like it’s Rust | Kobzol’s blog
security	Authorization in Software: S2 E1 - The Cedar Language & Policy Based Authorization with Emina Torlak - YouTube
security	Open-Source Access Control with OpenFGA
system	A Kafka Client’s Request: There and Back Again by Danica Fine - YouTube
system	A kernel? In a Container? Explain Yourself! - DevConf.CZ 2023 - YouTube
system	Creating chaos in containers by Maish Saidel-Keesing - YouTube
system	Waterpark: Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors - Elixir23 - Bryan Hunter - YouTube
system	HAProxy Exceeds 2 Million RPS on a Single Arm Instance
system	How Miro leverages Open Policy Agent to implement authorization-as-a-service | by Peter Brindisi | Miro Engineering | May, 2023 | Medium
system	How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop | Piotr Kołaczkowski
system	Javier Ramirez - Ingesting over 4 million rows a second on a single instance - YouTube
system	Lars Albertsson - How to not kill people - YouTube
system	On the Hunt for Etcd Data Inconsistencies - Marek Siarkowicz, Google - YouTube
system	Oxia: Scaling Pulsar's Metadata to 100x - YouTube
system	Scalable Data Transportation & Ingestion with MemQ | Ambud Sharma - YouTube
system	Steve Loughran - Hadoop Vectored IO: your data just got faster! - YouTube
system	Suman Karumuri - Kaldb: serverless lucene at petabyte scale - YouTube
system	Unlocking the Power of JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source | by Yaping Shi | The PayPal Technology Blog | May, 2023 | Medium
system,golang	Optimizing the Optimizer: the Time-Series Benchmark Suite | QuestDB

Until next time!

Mid Spring 2023 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some tech reading as you prepare for your Spring-Summer breaks (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
ann	Fluentd and Fluent Bit Project Updates - Eduardo Silva, Calyptia - YouTube
business	Investing in Systems by Natalie Vais - YouTube
business	Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence · Code Code Ship
chaos	From Chaos to Order -- Tools and Techniques for Testing TiDB, A Distributed NewSQL Database | PingCAP
chaos,data,zig	TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef - YouTube
clojure	"Clojure in the Fintech Ecosystem" by Philip Cooper - YouTube
clojure	"Gaining Constant time Lookup over Unorganized Data" - Ghadi Shayban, Jeb Beich - YouTube
clojure	"Growing Data Center networking mgmt UI using ClojureScript, Reagent and re-frame" by Kirill Ishanov - YouTube
clojure	"High Performance Clojure" by Chris Nuernberger - YouTube
clojure	"How to transfer Clojure goodness to other languages" by Elango Cheran and Timothy Pratley - YouTube
clojure	"Unmanned Systems Flight Planning with Clojure" by Heow Goodman - YouTube
clojure	Naked Performance (with Clojure) – Tommi Reiman - YouTube
cloud	Building ClickHouse Cloud From Scratch in a Year
cloud,security	Understanding the Integration Between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS
cloud,security	What should you use - CloudQuery or Steampipe? - Chandrapal Badshah
concurrent,java	Alexander Filatov — Java PathFinder: going to Mars without bugs and deadlocks - YouTube
concurrent,kotlin	Coroutines Beyond Concurrency by Alex Semin - YouTube
concurrent,rust	Blog | Quickwit, Tantivy, Rust, and more. | Quickwit
data	10x faster sliding windows: how our Rust streaming engine beats Flink
data	22 - DuckDB Internals (CMU Advanced Databases / Spring 2023) - YouTube
data	Big Data is Dead | MotherDuck - YouTube
data	Building a streaming incremental view maintenance engine with Calcite - YouTube
data	Comparing SQL-based streaming approaches | Georg Heiler
data	Distributed Database Design Decisions to Support High Performance Event Streaming - PulsarSummitSF22 - YouTube
data	How We Silently Switched Mode’s In-Memory Data Engine to DuckDB To Boost Visual Data Exploration Speed | Mode
data	Lakehouse at Fortune 1 Scale. Walmart systems produce one of the… | by Samuel Guleff | Walmart Global Tech Blog | May, 2023 | Medium
data	Making Moves with Arrow Data: Introducing Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) | Voltron Data - YouTube
data	Optimizing SQL Code and Enhancing Data Quality: An In-Depth Guide to SQLFluff and Delta Lake | by Lorin Dawson | May, 2023 | Medium
data	Why Apache Kafka doesn't need fsync to be safe — Jack Vanlightly
data,rust,stream	vmware/database-stream-processor: Streaming and Incremental Computation Framework
fun,java	Get Test Results Programmatically (Incl. Feedback LED) - YouTube
fun,ml	Custom Controls with GPT | Complete Guide to Kubescape - YouTube
fun,ml	Khan Academy announces GPT-4 powered learning guide - YouTube
fun,ml	Postgres without SQL: Natural language queries using GPT-3 & Rust | Citus Con 2023 - YouTube
golang	High-performance JSON parsing in Go
java	(No audio) Data Oriented Programming with the JDK 19 by José Paumard - YouTube
java	A Dissection of Java JDBC to PostgreSQL Connections
java	A Glance At The Java Performance Toolbox by Ana Maria Mihalceanu - YouTube
java	A Java 8 lambda is all you need for distributed background jobs! by Ronald Dehuysser - YouTube
java	Awesome Java applications with GraalVM and Java microservices frameworks by Аlina Yurenko - YouTube
java	Best practices for managing Java dependencies | Snyk
java	Data-Oriented Programming in Java - YouTube
java	Easing the daily grind with these awesome JDK command line tools by Michael Hunger - YouTube
java	FOSDEM 2023 - AsyncGetStackTrace: The Improved Version Of AsyncGetCallTrace (JEP 435)
java	Game of Loom: implementation patterns [...] playing with virtual threads by Mario Fusco - YouTube
java	GraalVM Native Image — Faster, Smarter, Leaner - YouTube
java	Helidon - Microservices on Modern Java - YouTube
java	How to make Java sockets faster, or How to be naughty with your JDK
java	ICache pollution caused by instanceof
java	In the wild: Java's Optional for control-flow
java	JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes
java	JVM Field Guide: Memory
java	Jackson 2.15: yet faster floating-point reads | by @cowtowncoder | Apr, 2023 | Medium
java	Java 20 - nipafx
java	Java 20 is now available
java	Java 20 sneak peek
java	Java 20: Reviewing the Enhancements in the Latest JDK Release - YouTube
java	Java Flight Recorder as an Observability Tool - YouTube
java	Java Next - From Amber to Loom, from Panama to Valhalla by Nicolai Parlog - YouTube
java	Java Virtual Threads - YouTube
java	JavaFX 20 and Beyond - YouTube
java	Keep your dependencies in check by Marit van Dijk - YouTube
java	Learn how to write fast Java code with the Vector API - JEP Café episode 18 - YouTube
java	Major migrations made easy by Tim Te Beek - YouTube
java	Null safety: Kotlin vs. Java
java	Prepare for what "Loom"s ahead by Dr. Heinz Kabutz - YouTube
java	Programmer's Guide to JDK Flight Recorder by Joakim Nordström - YouTube
java	Project Panama: Interconnecting the Java Virtual Machine and Native Code - YouTube
java	Property-based testing - let your testing library work for you by Magda Stożek - YouTube
java	Reduce Java Application Startup and Warmup Times with CRaC - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support
java	Revisiting Design Patterns after 20 by Edson Yanaga - YouTube
java	The Art of Java Language Pattern Matching by Simon Ritter - YouTube
java	The Basis of Virtual Threads: Continuations | Foojay.io Today
java	Writing a Profiler in 240 Lines of Pure Java | Mostly nerdless
java	[JavaSpecialists 308] - Formatting Inlined @value in Javadocs
java,k8s	Inner Development Loop with Java on Kubernetes • Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
java,ml	JBangGPT - YouTube
java,ml	NYJavaSIG ChatGPT and Java - Frank Greco - YouTube
java,ml	Scalable OpenAI GPT Applications in Java - YouTube
java,security	Evolving the Security of the Java Platform - YouTube
java,security	Spring Security: The Good Parts by Daniel Garnier-Moiroux - YouTube
java,security	Towards Easier, More Secure Signature Technology for the Java Ecosystem with Sigstore - Sigstore Blog
java,security	[VDBUH2023] - Gerrit Grunwald - Wargames - Java vulnerabilities and why you should care - YouTube
java,security	[VDBUH2023] - Olimpiu Pop & Steve Poole - Peaceful Sleeping In the Age Of Shells - YouTube
java,test	Developing resilient applications with Toxiproxy and Testcontainers - AtomicJar
java,test	Exhaustive JUnit5 Testing with Combinations, Permutations and Products - Chronicle Software
java,wasm	Give super powers to Java with WebAssembly by Philippe Charriere @ Wasm I/O 2023 - YouTube
jvm,concurrent	Coroutines and Loom behind the scenes by Roman Elizarov - YouTube
jvm,concurrent	How we test concurrent algorithms in Kotlin Coroutines by Nikita Koval - YouTube
k8s	Building a Batch System for the Cloud with Kueue - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kante Yin, DaoCloud - YouTube
k8s	Kubernetes Batch Processing at Scale - A Scheduling Perspective - Lim Haw Jia & Fan Deliang - YouTube
k8s	We built network isolation for 1,500 services to make Monzo more secure
kotlin	Apidays Paris 2022 - Building Strongly typed APIs by Julien Salvi - YouTube
kotlin,wasm	Introducing Kotlin/Wasm by Zalim Bashorov & Sébastien Deleuze @ Wasm I/O 2023 - YouTube
ml	Best thing I’ve read on GPT-4’s capabilities
ml	Connect OpenAI To +5,000 Tools (LangChain + Zapier) - YouTube
ml	My ChatGPT 4 Workflow & Tips as a Software Engineer - YouTube
ml	Performing AIOps with OpenAI's ChatGPT API - Tutorial by Janakiram MSV - JANI.TV - YouTube
ml	Structured Output From OpenAI (Clean Dirty Data) - YouTube
ml	The LangChain Cookbook - Beginner Guide To 7 Essential Concepts - YouTube
ml	[VDBUH2023] - Liviu Șerban - A machine learning solution for detecting and mitigating flaky tests - YouTube
observability	The Case for Function-Level Metrics - Blog
observability,system	Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval | by Netflix Technology Blog | Apr, 2023 | Netflix TechBlog
productivity	Principles of Effective Developers - YouTube
rule	How we built Cedar with automated reasoning and differential testing - Amazon Science
rust	Spotting and Avoiding Heap Fragmentation in Rust Applications
security	The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs… | by Bobbyr | May, 2023 | Medium
system	A new distributed storage engine based on SQLite
system	Accelerating Regular Expressions with AVX-512
system	Inside DataDog’s $5M Outage (Real-World Engineering Challenges #8)
system	KIP-925: Rack aware task assignment in Kafka Streams - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation
system	Tales from on-Call: Fun with Operating Etcd at Scale - Geeta Gharpure & Chao Chen, Amazon - YouTube
system,benchmark	Kafka vs Redpanda Performance - Do the claims add up? — Jack Vanlightly
system,benchmark	Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss
system,incident	Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues | The GitHub Blog
system,incident	Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved - The Pragmatic Engineer
test	[VDBUH2023] - Victor Rentea - Keynote: Your unit tests are trying to tell you something - YouTube
wasm	Wasmer Things: An Upside-Down Guide to WebAssembly by Edoardo Vacchi @ Wasm I/O 2023 - YouTube
zig	Intro to the Zig Programming Language • Andrew Kelley • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
zig	Zig's I/O and Concurrency Story - King Protty - Software You Can Love 2022 - YouTube

Until next time!

Spring 2023 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some tech reading as you welcome the Spring season (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News and Twitter feeds, which are my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
architecture	Economies of Speed • Dave Farley • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
architecture	I Made Everything Loosely Coupled. Does My App Fall Apart? • Gregor Hohpe • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
architecture	Types Of Technical Debt And How To Manage Them - YouTube
data	Apache Iceberg: An Architectural Look Under the Covers - YouTube
data	Colin McCabe Updates on Apache Kafka KRaft Mode
data	Exploring the TPC-DS Benchmark Queries with Malloy
data	High-speed Database Throughput Using Apache Arrow Flight SQL - P99 CONF
data	Lightweight Compression in DuckDB - DuckDB
data	PostgreSQL Unlogged Tables - Look Ma, No WAL!
data	Sanket Verma - The Beauty of Zarr | PyData Global 2022 - YouTube
data	Shredding Deeply Nested JSON, One Vector at a Time - DuckDB
data	Understanding Probabilistic Data Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings by Guy Royse - YouTube
data	pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution (part I)
data,system	Building Efficient Multi-Threaded Filters for Faster SQL Queries - YouTube
data,system	Validating Apache Pulsar’s Behavior Under Failure Conditions - Pulsar Summit SF 2022 - YouTube
go,system	Taming Go's Memory Usage — and Avoiding a Rust Rewrite - YouTube
inspire	Saving the Planet, One Byte at a Time by Sofia Larsson - YouTube
inspire	Understanding the role of a principal engineer - YouTube
java	Accelerating vector operations on the JVM using the new jdk.incubator.vector module - Alex Klibisz
java	Cloud-Native Dev Tools: Bringing the cloud back to earth by Grace Jansen - YouTube
java	Firefox Profiler beyond the web | Mostly nerdless
java	Foreign Function and Memory API by Per Minborg - YouTube
java	GeeCON Prague 2022: Jaroslav Tulach - Admire Kotlin. Adhere to Java - YouTube
java	How to Run a Java Application with CRaC in a Docker Container
java	How to fast generate your API Test with OpenAPI Tools and Rest-Assured by Elias Nogueira - YouTube
java	How to write fast Java code – thinking about memory by Anders Peterson - YouTube
java	JParse: The most efficient JSON parser for the JVM yet! | LinkedIn
java	Java Matrix Benchmark – oj! Algorithms
java	LP, QP & MIP on the JVM – oj! Algorithms
java	Leveraging the Modern JVM: How JVM Languages Benefit from Loom, Panama, and More by Charles Nutter - YouTube
java	Performance Testing Java Applications by Pratik Patel - YouTube
java	Welcome to the Jungle - A safari through the JVM landscape by Gerrit Grunwald - YouTube
java	What good are Record Patterns in Java? An example based on Spark's Catalyst Optimizer and it's Tree Rewriting Rules
java	ZGC - Java’s Highly Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector - YouTube
java,web	Dynamite Duo: GWT Boot and Spring Boot | by Dr. Lofi Dewanto | Geek Culture | Feb, 2023 | Medium
k8s	FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost with OpenCost - YouTube
k8s,observability	Why Kubernetes Freedom Requires Chaos Engineering to Shine in Production - YouTube
k8s,security	OWASP Kubernetes Top 10 – Sysdig
k8s,security	Tutorial: Hands-on Hacking Kubernetes and Ways to Prevent It - Eric Smalling, Snyk - YouTube
kotlin,concurrent	The resulting LPRQ (P = Portable) algorithm elegantly simulates CAS2 via a sequence of Compare-and-Set instructions
life,inspire	I'm just trying to keep my head above water - Chris Klug - NDC Oslo 2022 - YouTube
ml	ElasticON EMEA: The Search for Relevance with Vector Search - YouTube
rust	Confessions of a Rusty Java developer by Alex Snaps - YouTube
rust,system	FOSDEM 2023 - Building an actor library for Quickwit's indexing pipeline.
security	How We Extended Teleport Seamlessly to Our 100's of Clusters - YouTube
security	Lateral movement detection with LATMA (LATeral Movement Analyzer) | Gal Sadeh (Silverfort) - YouTube
security	Managing Dropwizard with Teleport - YouTube
system	A New IO Scheduler Algorithm for Mixed Workloads - YouTube
system	Optimizing Servers for High-Throughput and Low-Latency at Dropbox - YouTube
system	P99 Pursuit: 8 Years of Battling P99 Latency - YouTube
system	Square Engineering's "Fail Fast, Retry Soon" Performance Optimization Technique - YouTube
system	The technology behind GitHub’s new code search | The GitHub Blog
system	Why User-Mode Threads Are Good for Performance - YouTube
system	Wish you were here: stories of building a remote development IDE - Matt Ellis - NDC Sydney 2022 - YouTube
system	cachegrand: A Take on High Performance Caching - YouTube
zig	When Zig is safer and faster than Rust

Until next time!

Winter 2023 tech reading

Hi there! Here's some tech reading for you (As usual, a hat tip to HackerNews, Twitter, Youtube and Reddit - my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
architecture	How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor - YouTube
cli	2023 Top 5 CLI Tools You Need to Know! - YouTube
cli	Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal | Technorage
cloud,security	A retrospective on public cloud breaches of 2022, with Rami McCarthy and Houston Hopkins | Datadog Security Labs
cloud,security	AWS Goat Cloud Pentesting - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS Phishing: Four Ways - High Signal Security
cloud,security	Detecting Anomalous AWS Sessions From Temporary Credentials - 1 of 2
cloud,security	Hunting for signs of persistence in the cloud: an IR guide following the CircleCI incident | Wiz Blog
cloud,security	Orca Security Monitors Multiple Risk Factors Simultaneously - YouTube
cloud,security	SSH key injection in Google Cloud Compute Engine [Google VRP]
culture	Evaluating Cultural Fit + Culturesmithing: Everyone Influences Culture Casey Watts - YouTube
data	12 Open Source Projects to Watch in 2023 | Voltron Data
data	Accidentally Building a Petabyte-Scale Cybersecurity Data Mesh in Azure With Delta Lake at HSBC - YouTube
data	Big Data Workflow Scheduling Introducing Apache DolphinScheduler - William Kwok - YouTube
data	Building Reliable Lakehouses with Apache Pulsar and Delta Lake - Pulsar Summit SF 2022 - YouTube
data	Change Data Capture and Debezium with Gunnar Morling - YouTube
data	Cutting the Edge in Fighting Cybercrime: Reverse-Engineering a Search Language to Cross-Compile - YouTube
data	Extracting, converting, and querying data in local files using clickhouse-local
data	Git for Data Lakes How lakeFS Scales data versioning to billions of objects Amit Kesarwani - YouTube
data	Iceberg's Best Secret Exploring Metadata Tables Szehon Ho - YouTube
data	Introducing Datacake, the batteries included framework for building distributed systems in Rust
data	Morel, a data parallel programming language Julian Hyde - YouTube
data	OpenLineage An Open Standard for Data Lineage Ross Turk - YouTube
data	Pulsar @ Scale. 200M RPM and Thousand of Instances - Pulsar Summit SF 2022 - YouTube
data	Pulsar's Journey in Yahoo!: On prem, Cloud and Hybrid - Pulsar Summit SF 2022 - YouTube
data	Shared Foundations Of Composable Data Systems - Biswapesh Chattopadhyay, Google - YouTube
data	The Future of Presto's Query Optimizer - Bill McKenna, Ahana - YouTube
data	TigerBeetle: Magical Memory Tour! (Joran Dirk Greef) - YouTube
data	Using Apache Kafka to process 1 trillion inter-service messages
data,ann	The Past, Present, and Future of Presto - Philip Bell, Meta - YouTube
java	Building a PostgreSQL Wire Protocol Server using Vanilla, Modern Java 21
java	EMT4J – An Easier Upgrade for Java Applications | Adoptium
java	GeeCON 2022: Arkadiusz Sokołowski - Valhalla: codes like Object, but behaves like int - YouTube
java	Getting Started With Java Development in 2023 — An Opinionated Guide - Gunnar Morling
java	Hash4j: a new hash library for Java | Dynatrace Engineering
java	IntelliJ Super Productivity in 45 Minutes - YouTube
java	IntelliJ plugin that annotates calls that perform I/O (disk, network, external svc, etc)
java	Java 20 - From ThreadLocal to ScopedValue with Loom Full Tutorial - YouTube
java	Running and monitoring a low maintenance web application | Alexander Reelsen (EN) - YouTube
java	Sensible JVM Configuration - Kirk Pepperdine - YouTube
java	Streamlining Large-Scale Java Development Using Error Prone • Sander Mak • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
java	Your allocation rate could be hurting vertical scalability - YouTube
java	ZGC: The Future of Low-Latency Garbage Collection Is Here - YouTube
java,ann,data	Apache Ignite 3.0 Overview - YouTube
java,data	GeeCON 2022: Andrii Rodionov - Implementing Raft protocol with project Loom - YouTube
java,k8s	How to write tests with Fabric8 Kubernetes Client | Red Hat Developer
java,k8s	Kubernetes Java Client 17.0 Provides Support for Kubernetes 1.25
k8s	Best Practices for Applications on Kubernetes for Both Frequent Updates & Stabil... Hiroshi Hayakawa - YouTube
k8s	Better K8s Prometheus Alerts with Robusta: Live Show (Ep 197) - YouTube
k8s	Kubernetes Debugging techniques - Ephemeral containers - YouTube
k8s	Pitfalls reloading files from Kubernetes Secret & ConfigMap volumes
k8s	What I Learnt Fixing 50+ Broken Kubernetes Clusters - David Flanagan - NDC Oslo 2022 - YouTube
k8s,security	Mitigating RBAC-Based Privilege Escalation in Popular Kubernetes Platforms
ml,java	Machine Learning Meets IDEs: A JetBrains Case - YouTube
rust	Publishing Rust Crates: a Justfile Workflow - jstrong.dev
security	Leaking Secrets From GitHub Actions: Reading Files And Environment Variables, Intercepting Network/Process Communication, Dumping Memory
security	WatchTower | Trends and Top Cybersecurity Takeaways from 2022 - SentinelOne
security,k8s	Enhancing Kubernetes security with user namespaces | Wiz Blog
system	Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing・Tinybird
system	Mayday! Software Lessons From an Aviation Disaster • Adele Carpenter • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
system	Stability Patterns and Antipatterns, Michael Nygard - YouTube
test	An Ultimate Guide To BDD - YouTube
test	RailsConf 2022 - Testing legacy code when you dislike tests (and legacy code) by Maeve Revels - YouTube
yaml	Validate Your YAML (with CUE) - Earthly Blog

Until next time!

New year 2023 tech reading

Hi there, Happy New Year! Here's some tech reading for you (As usual, a hat tip to HackerNews, Twitter, Youtube and Reddit - my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
ann,java	Keynote: Introducing Spring Framework 6 - YouTube
ann,java	New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart | AWS News Blog
biz	True Story: What Breaks Going from $0-$100M ARR in Less Than 2 Years with Wiz CRO Colin Jones - YouTube
cloud	Fast and Furious Multi-Cloud Connectivity | Patrycja Wegrzynowicz (EN) - YouTube
cloud	Ian Mckay - AWS reInvent which means it's time to go through my top 10 favourite / most impactful announcements
cloud,k8s	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Kubernetes virtually anywhere, for everyone (CON208-L) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - A day in the life of a billion requests (SEC404) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Context is everything: CNAPP revolution to secure AWS deployments (PRT254) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Innovate with AWS and secure with CrowdStrike (PRT275) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Security alchemy: How AWS uses math to prove security (SEC310) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Threat detection and incident response using cloud-native services (SEC309) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Zero Trust CNAPP and cloud workload protection with Zscaler (PRT073) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Zero-privilege operations: Running services without access to data (SEC327) - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS re:Invent 2022 - [NEW LAUNCH!] Introducing Amazon Security Lake (SEC216) - YouTube
cloud,security	Nir Zuk, Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks Ignite22 - YouTube
cloud,security	Vulnerability Inbox Zero. This is a summary of my LocoMocoSec… | by Alex Smolen | Dec, 2022 | Medium
community	Building a Community Growth Flywheel - Jasmine Wang, Alluxio - YouTube
data	10 patterns for more resilient applications | Uwe Friedrichsen (EN) - YouTube
data	Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake vs Apache Iceberg - Lakehouse Feature Comparison
data	Datadog on Building an Event Storage System - YouTube
data	How I found a bug in SQLite - Vallified
data	Streaming wars and How Apache Pulsar is acing the battle - Pulsar Summit Asia 2022 - YouTube
data,java	Implementing the log - MicroRaft
java	24 Java Features You Missed In 2022 - Inside Java Newscast #39 - YouTube
java	Auto-vectorization: How to get beaten by compiler optimization — Java JIT! | by Martin Stypinski | Medium
java	JDK 19, Virtual Thread-specific bugs (2nd edition) : java
java	Java Networking Enhancements since JDK 11 - YouTube
java	Minborg's Java Pot: Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API (Second Preview)
java	Simple tweaks to get the most out of your JVM | Rich Hagarty & Jamie Coleman (EN) - YouTube
java	Using Linux's memfd_secret syscall from the JVM with JEP-419 • Brice Dutheil
java	Using Shared Memory-Mapped Files in Java - YouTube
java,ann	GraalVM in 2022: a year in review | by Alina Yurenko | graalvm | Dec, 2022 | Medium
java,system	How to Build a Text Editor With Java - Part 1 - YouTube
jvm	Groovy and Data Science - JVM Advent
k8s	I have a plan! Exploring the OPA Intermediate Representation (IR) format | by Anders Eknert | Oct, 2022 | Open Policy Agent
math	The Satisfiability Problem - YouTube
nature	They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn Lost. - The New York Times
security	Zero trust with Kafka
system	AWS re:Invent 2022 - Reliable scalability: How Amazon.com scales in the cloud (ARC206) - YouTube
test	HURL: Run and Test HTTP API Requests

Until next time!

Thanksgiving 2022 tech reading

Hi there, Happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it)! Here's some tech reading for you (As usual, a hat tip to HackerNews, Twitter, Youtube and Reddit - my usual sources).

Tag(s)	Link
ann,cloud	Fluent Bit V2.0: Unifying Open Standards For Logs, Metrics & Traces - Eduardo Silva & Anurag Gupta - YouTube
ann,k8s,java	Eclipse JKube 1.10.0 is now available! - Marc Nuri
ci-cd	500,000 files and counting - Git tooling for monorepos at Canva - Git Merge 2022 - YouTube
ci-cd	Dynamically Testing Individual Microservice Releases In Production - Matt Turner, Tetrate - YouTube
ci-cd	Experimenting with CUE and Carvel to Enable GitOps for Your... - Dmitriy Kalinin & Shatarupa Nandi - YouTube
ci-cd	How Lyft Used Envoy to Rethink Microservice Development - Matt Grossman, Lyft - YouTube
cloud	CloudEvents And Beyond! - Doug Davis, Microsoft - YouTube
cloud,security	AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity | infosec.rodeo
cloud,security	AWS Permission Boundaries for Dummies | FireMon
cloud,security	George Kurtz, CrowdStrike | CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2022 - YouTube
data	"Disaster Recovery Options running Apache Kafka in Kubernetes" by Geetha Anne (Strange Loop 2022) - YouTube
data	"KalDB: A cloud native log search platform" by Suman Karumuri (Strange Loop 2022) - YouTube
data	Reducing memory usage in Dask workloads by 80%
data	SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
data	Streaming Graphs, Because We Can't Afford to Query Any More - Ryan Wright, thatDot - YouTube
golang,system	GopherCon 2022: Madhav Jivrajani - Control Theory and Concurrent Garbage Collection Deep Dive - YouTube
inspire	What makes a “good college” – and why it matters | Cecilia M. Orphan | TEDxMileHigh - YouTube
java	Afraid of Java cold starts in Serverless? Fear not, Java is super fast! - YouTube
java	Clean Code with Records, Sealed Classes and Pattern Matching by José Paumard - YouTube
java	Dissecting Memory Sessions
java	Evolving JUnit 5 - Speaker Deck
java	Fast and Simple SPSC Queue
java	Game of Loom: implementation patterns and performance implications playing with virtual threads - YouTube
java	Generational Shenandoah: Better latency with smaller heaps by Kelvin Nilsen - YouTube
java	GraphQL for Java Developers | Kito Mann (EN) - YouTube
java	Helidon Nima - Loom based microservices framework - YouTube
java	Helidon – your next microservices framework± | Dmitry Alexandrov (EN) - YouTube
java	How to write greener Java applications
java	Improving Developer Productivity at Disney with Serverless and Open Source | AWS Open Source Blog
java	Inside Java | JavaOne 2022 Technical Keynote - YouTube
java	IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022 | JavaFX for Mobile Development - YouTube
java	Java 17 to 20 Pattern Matching Full tutorial with Records, Instanceof and Switch - JEP Café #14 - YouTube
java	Java is Very Fast, If You Don't Create Too Many Objects - YouTube
java	MicroProfile: Current and Future - YouTube
java	Optimizing Java Workloads for Containers | Sundaresan & Stoodley (EN) - YouTube
java	Streamlining large scale Java development using Error Prone by Sander Mak - YouTube
java	The Next Frontier in Open Source Java Compilers: Just-In-Time Compilation as a Service - YouTube
java	The Secret Life of Maven central - YouTube
java	The State of OpenTelemetry for Java Developers by Philipp Krenn - YouTube
java,k8s	Secrets of Performance Tuning Java on Kubernetes by Bruno Borges - YouTube
java,k8s	dekorateio/dekorate: Tools for generating Kubernetes related manifests.
java,rust	Base64 Encoding Performance: Java vs Rust | by Dmitry Komanov | Oct, 2022 | Medium
java,system	A fairy tale of zlib/zip compression in OpenJDK - YouTube
java,system	Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase | by Netflix Technology Blog | Nov, 2022 | Netflix TechBlog
java,system	ongoing by Tim Bray · Hello, Ruler
java,wasm	The JVM Meets WASI: Writing Cloud-Friendly Wasm Apps Using Java and Friends - Joel Dice - YouTube
jvm	From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin - Engineering at Meta
k8s	73,000 Pods a Day, Lessons From Misadventures In Multi-Tenant - Shane Corbett & Wil Reed - YouTube
k8s	Beyond Kubebuilder - Generating Entire Kubernetes Controller Implementat... Amine Hilaly & Jay Pipes - YouTube
k8s	Chaos Engineering For Hybrid Targets With LitmusChaos - Uma Mukkara, Karthik S & Prithvi Raj - YouTube
k8s	Cilium Updates, News And Roadmap- Thomas Graf, Bill Mulligan Liz Rice, Purvi Desai, Chandan Aggarwal - YouTube
k8s	Gateway API: Building a k8s API with CRDs - YouTube
k8s	I have a plan! Exploring the OPA Intermediate Representation (IR) format | by Anders Eknert | Oct, 2022 | Open Policy Agent
k8s	OPA - Peter O'Neill, Styra - YouTube
k8s	Turn Me On With Cloud-Native Feature Flags! - Alex Jones, Canonical - YouTube
k8s	Using Prometheus to Avoid Disasters with Kubernetes CPU Limits | Containers
k8s,cloud	Kubernetes to Cloud Attack Vectors: Demos Inside - Danny Hershko Shemesh & Alon Schindel, Wiz - YouTube
perf	Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix • Brendan Gregg • YOW! 2018 - YouTube
python	20% Faster Python with a Single GC Tweak • Michael Kennedy
rpc	Feature Work In GRPC; XDS And Not - Eric Anderson & Kevin Nilson, Google - YouTube
rust	Confessions of a Rusty Java developer by Alex Snaps - YouTube
rust	Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal | Technorage
security	Comparing Semgrep and CodeQL · Doyensec's Blog
security	Restructuring the Kubernetes Threat Matrix and Evaluating Attack Detection by Falco | Mercari Engineering
system	"Hodor: Detecting and Addressing Overload in LinkedIn Microservices" by Bryan Barkley - YouTube
system	"Resillient Microservices without the Chaos" by Christopher Meiklejohn (Strange Loop 2022) - YouTube
system	Git Internals: a Database Perspective - Git Merge 2022 - YouTube
system,data	Lessons learned from 10 years of DynamoDB - Amazon Science
wasm	Bring Your Own Bytecode to the Logging Party - Guba Sándor & Dudas Adam, Cisco - YouTube

Until next time!