Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter 14.04.2024-06.06.2024

Main

1. Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

   20 min

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2. Lean Scala

   4 min

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3. JEP draft: Exception handling in switch (Preview)

   10 min

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4. JEP 468: Derived Record Creation (Preview)

   10 min

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5. Clojure: managing throughput with virtual threads

   6 min

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6. JEP 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

   12 min

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7. JEP 476: Module Import Declarations (Preview)

   6 min

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8. Get Started with the Latest Updates for Dockerfile Syntax (v1.7.0)

   8 min

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9. Scaling to Count Billions

   12 min

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10. JEP 466: Class-File API (Second Preview)

    10 min

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11. JEP 482: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview)

    12 min

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12. JDK 22 Security Enhancements

    5 min

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13. Evolving Schemaless into a Distributed SQL Database

    8 min

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14. Pruning dead exception handlers

    8 min

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15. Coroutines and effects

    8 min

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16. FIFO is Better than LRU: the Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion

    10 min

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17. Borrow checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven (!) Other Memory Safety Approaches

    22 min

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18. On dependencies and resilience

    10 min

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19. The Semantic Web is Dead - Long Live the Semantic Web!

    11 min

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20. ETag and HTTP caching

    5 min

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21. The Hidden Dynamic Life of Java

    11 min

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22. InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024

    6 min

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23. Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool

    4 min

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24. The journey of building a comprehensive attribution platform

    6 min

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25. Using Clickhouse to scale an events engine

    4 min

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26. Data Gateway — A Platform for Growing and Protecting the Data Tier

    11 min

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27. Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice?

    4 min

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28. Saving Millions on Logging: Finding Relevant Savings

    5 min

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29. S3 Is Showing Its Age

    5 min

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30. TypeScript: Branded Types

    4 min

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31. It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time

    4 min

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32. Building a cost-effective logging platform using Clickhouse for petabyte scale

    8 min

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33. Warm up the relationship between Java and Kubernetes

    12 min

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34. Flow state: Why fragmented thinking is worse than any interruption

    7 min

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35. Healthy Documentation

    8 min

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36. Building a weather data warehouse part I: Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB

    14 min

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37. Common DB schema change mistakes

    12 min

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38. Investigation of a Cross-regional Network Performance Issue

    8 min

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39. Dissolving Design Patterns In Design Elements

    6 min

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40. Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years

    6 min

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41. Exploring Hacker News by mapping and analyzing 40 million posts and comments for fun

    25 min

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42. Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 500%

    10 min

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43. Java Runtimes: Insights From the Spring Boot Point of View

    6 min

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44. A Glimpse into Flink CDC 3.0

    5 min

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45. How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

    15 min

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46. PostgreSQL plan_cache_mode

    5 min

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47. JEP 480: Structured Concurrency (Third Preview)

    16 min

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48. New Relic Report: 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem

    8 min

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Misc

1. The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment;

Interesting projects

1. zoraxy: A general purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool;
2. sotrace: Traces the shared-object dependencies of a binary, and graphs them;
3. pydantic logfire: Uncomplicated observability;
4. PyGraft: Configurable Generation of Synthetic Schemas and Knowledge Graphs at Your Fingertips;
5. Apache DataFusion Comet: a high-performance accelerator for Apache Spark;
6. Pragmatic drag and drop: Fast drag and drop for any experience on any tech stack;
7. CDN Up and Running: Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN, Nginx, Lua, Prometheus, Grafana, Load balancing, and Containers;
8. Service Capacity Modeling: A generic toolkit for modeling capacity requirements in the cloud;

Books

1. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.