Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter 20.11.2023-14.04.2024

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1. JEP 459: String Templates (Second Preview)

   20 min

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2. How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale

   15 min

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3. Data Oriented Programming in Java

   17 min

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4. Jackson 2.16-rc1 overview and Jackson 2.16.0 released

   5 min

   . Full release notes available here;
5. Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

   5 min

   with comments;
6. Effect cases in switch by Brian Goetz

   10 min

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7. The radiating programmer

   7 min

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8. Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust

   2 min

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9. S3 Express is All You Need

   3 min

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10. Druid Deprecation and ClickHouse Adoption at Lyft

    10 min

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11. Sharing Memory Between JVMs

    7 min

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12. More powerful Go execution traces

    6 min

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13. SSL hot reload in Spring Boot 3.2.0

    4 min

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14. What new is coming in reactor-core 3.6.0?

    5 min

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15. Python 3.13 gets a JIT

    8 min

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16. Faults, Errors and Failures

    9 min

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17. Kafka consumer proxy filter in Envoy

    5 min

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18. Code is run more than read

    2 min

    with comments;
19. An overview of Cloudflare's logging pipeline

    5 min

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20. How we switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for PostgreSQL

    7 min

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21. What is Scalability Anyway?

    2 min

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22. Programming as Theory Building

    20 min

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23. Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

    9 min

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24. Tracking Java Native Memory With JDK Flight Recorder

    4 min

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25. How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets

    12 min

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26. Upscaling LinkedIn's Profile Datastore While Reducing Costs

    12 min

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27. Pat’s Big Deal, and Transaction Coordination

    7 min

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28. Data Quality Score: The next chapter of data quality at Airbnb

    8 min

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29. It's Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated

    4 min

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30. Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

    6 min

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31. My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects by Mitchell Hashimoto

    6 min

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32. Better Benchmarks Through Graphs

    8 min

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33. Building a Service Mesh in a Hybrid Environment

    7 min

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34. The MVP Is Dead — How to Avoid Wasting 6 Months Building a Crappy Version of Your Final Product

    4 min

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35. The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

    10 min

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36. Zed is now open source

    3 min

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37. Portable EPUBs

    15 min

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38. A Practical Approach to SBOM in CI/CD Part I — CycloneDX

    7 min

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39. Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work

    17 min

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40. Introducing DoorDash’s In-House Search Engine

    7 min

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41. 12 Software Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

    10 min

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42. NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go

    7 min

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43. Putting JFR into Context

    6 min

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44. IAM Access Analyzer updates: Find unused access, check policies before deployment

    4 min

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45. Why I’ve Ripped Out Performance Reviews for Over a Decade

    5 min

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46. All my favorite tracing tools: eBPF, QEMU, Perfetto, new ones I built and more

    14 min

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47. A Glimpse into the Redesigned Goku-Ingestor vNext at Pinterest

    8 min

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48. How DoorDash Standardized and Improved Microservices Caching

    10 min

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49. Netflix Original Research: MIT CODE 2023

    4 min

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50. Handling Imbalanced Traffic with Kafka Swimlanes

    6 min

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51. Controlling Kubernetes Traffic with Topology Aware Routing

    7 min

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52. The Curious Case of the Aggregation Query

    6 min

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53. Church vs Curry Types

    3 min

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54. Are Databricks clusters with Photon and Graviton instances worth it?

    7 min

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55. How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development

    6 min

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56. DORA Metrics At Work

    10 min

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57. Cloud Egress Costs Compared

    3 min

    with comments;
58. Ledger: Stripe’s system for tracking and validating money movement

    12 min

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59. How to find the AWS Account ID of any S3 Bucket

    6 min

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60. Sequential A/B Testing Keeps the World Streaming Netflix Part 2: Counting Processes

    7 min

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61. Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

    12 min

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62. Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages

    10 min

    with comments;
63. Finding Needles in a Haystack with Best-of-K

    5 min

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Misc

1. Drinking Wine Counteracts Coffee’s Effect On Sleep

   1 min

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2. Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union with comments;
3. Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

   6 min

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Interesting projects

1. Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language with comments;
2. Pkl, a programming language for configuration by Apple;
3. otter: A high performance lockless cache for Go;
4. pigsty: Battery-Included PostgreSQL Distro as an Open-Source RDS Alternative;
5. GQL - Git Query Language;
6. jc: CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON;
7. codapi-js: Interactive code examples for documentation, education and fun;

Books

1. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers;
2. Radical Candor.