Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter 06.06.2024-19.08.2024

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1. Java 21 Virtual Threads - Dude, Where’s My Lock?

   8 min

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2. Go 1.23 Release Notes

   6 min

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3. Resource management in Aurora Serverless

   30 min

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4. SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level

   10 min

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5. On the origins of DS_store

   1 min

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6. Building and scaling Notion’s data lake

   11 min

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7. Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!

   20 min

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8. Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)

   7 min

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9. Entering text in the terminal is complicated

   6 min

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10. 2024 NoSQL Database Trend Report

    8 min

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11. Golang Defer: From Basic To Traps

    8 min

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12. Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others

    8 min

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13. Start Presentations on the Second Slide

    2 min

    with comments;
14. Figma and the cost of collaboration

    10 min

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15. How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

    12 min

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16. JDK 23 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes

    6 min

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17. Null-Restricted and Nullable Types (Preview)

    10 min

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18. How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite

    8 min

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19. Debugging distributed database mysteries with Rust, packet capture and Polars

    10 min

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20. Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey

    5 min

    and the full results;
21. Golang High-Performance Programming EP3: Memory Alignment

    5 min

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22. Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood

    15 min

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23. Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber

    10 min

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24. Apache Flink on Kubernetes

    8 min

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25. Maestro: Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at Netflix

    12 min

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26. How to Test

    15 min

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27. A Git story: Not so fun this time

    16 min

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28. Safeguarding App Health and Consumer Experience with Metric-Aware Rollouts

    6 min

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29. The Zsh Shell Tricks I Wish I’d Known Earlier

    10 min

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30. Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with!

    6 min

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31. Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil

    12 min

    with comments;
32. Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow

    45 min

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33. Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding

    8 min

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34. A Bunch of Programming Advice I’d Give To Myself 15 Years Ago

    8 min

    with comments;
35. Test clocks: How we made it easier to test Stripe Billing integrations

    5 min

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36. What is PID 0?

    12 min

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37. How we improved push processing on GitHub

    5 min

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38. What is Old is New Again

    12 min

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39. WarpStream Architecture

    20 min

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40. Enabling near real-time data analytics on the data lake

    6 min

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41. Project Leyden - Quarkus

    5 min

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42. Garbage Collection and Metastability

    4 min

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43. JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking

    8 min

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44. JEP 471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal

    10 min

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45. Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

    14 min

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Misc

1. Be Mean: The Case for Truth

   6 min

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2. Copying is the way design works

   12 min

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3. The Varieties of Travel Experience

   5 min

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4. Joyce Project;

Interesting projects

1. peerfetch: Peer-to-peer HTTP over WebRTC;
2. devzat: a custom SSH server that takes you to a chat instead of a shell prompt;
3. opslane: Reducing alert fatigue for on-call engineers;
4. libpomp: Printf Oriented Message Protocol;
5. crossplane: The Cloud Native Control Plane;
6. that_editor: It’s that editor;
7. WTPDF / PDF/UA-2 Examples by the LaTeX Project;
8. bitwhip: CLI Native WebRTC Agent in Rust;
9. ubicloud: Open, free, and portable cloud. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), virtual networking, managed Postgres, and IAM services in public beta;
10. kube-scheduler-simulator: The simulator for the Kubernetes scheduler;
11. slackdump: Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally;
12. Drag-and-Drop-Email-Designer: Drag and drop HTML email designer;
13. stipple-effect: a pixel art editor that supports animation and scripting;
14. Standard ebooks;
15. Docmost: an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software;
16. resolvo: fast package resolver written in Rust;
17. jspecify: Standard Annotations for Java Static Analysis;
18. jox: Fast and Scalable Channels in Java;
19. jmolecules: Libraries to help developers express architectural abstractions in Java code;

Books

1. Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi;
2. Pine by Francine Toon.