Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter 19.08.2024-27.10.2024

Main

1. Navigating the Netflix Data Deluge: The Imperative of Effective Data Management

   6 min

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2. 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

   5 min

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3. Cancellable HTTP requests via Scala's Tapir

   4 min

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4. JEP 491: Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning

   6 min

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5. How do we run Kafka 100% on the object storage?

   11 min

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6. Investigation of a Workbench UI Latency Issue

   12 min

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7. Open Sourcing Unity Catalog

   2 min

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8. A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

   5 min

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9. New unique package

   5 min

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10. Setting engineering org values

    8 min

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11. Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: Highlights from PromCon Europe 2024

    5 min

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12. Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling

    14 min

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13. The sorry state of Java deserialization

    8 min

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14. Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs

    4 min

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15. The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

    18 min

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16. Building a Control Plane for Lyft’s Shared Development Environment

    8 min

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17. OAuth from First Principles

    8 min

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18. Why bother with argv[0]?

    9 min

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19. How Canva collects 25 billion events per day

    7 min

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20. Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes

    1 min

    with an example of its application

    6 min

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21. Reverse Searching Netflix’s Federated Graph

    8 min

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22. Metastable failures in the wild

    8 min

    and original publication

    40 min

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23. Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs

    10 min

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24. Causal Trees

    10 min

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25. Netflix’s Media Landscape Evolution: From 3–2–1 to Cloud Storage Optimization

    10 min

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26. Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams — Part 1

    12 min

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27. How I Review GitHub PRs

    6 min

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28. A decade of developing a programming language

    9 min

    with comments;
29. A Primer on Logic Programming

    5 min

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30. Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems

    4 min

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31. How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal

    7 min

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32. How Agoda Solved Retry Storms to Boost System Reliability

    8 min

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33. Fixing Kafka Streams Uneven Tasks Distribution at Logz.io

    8 min

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34. A brief introduction to interval arithmetic

    4 min

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35. Behind the draw - How Canva's drawing tool works

    10 min

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36. Use the Maven Wrapper to optimize your build workflow

    2 min

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Misc

1. Resurfacing the past: Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II;
2. The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries

   22 min

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3. The New Science of Optimism and Longevity

   7 min

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4. Accountability sinks

   2 min

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Interesting projects

1. Drasi: data processing platform that simplifies detecting changes in data and taking immediate action;
2. Kondense: automated resources sizing tool for containers in kubernetes;
3. FAIR: A Go library for serving resources fairly;
4. lyft/clutch: Extensible platform for infrastructure management;
5. Ligo-Biosciences/AlphaFold3: Open source implementation of AlphaFold3;
6. Manifold: a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more;
7. maelstrom: workbench for writing toy implementations of distributed systems;
8. quint: executable specification language with delightful tooling based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA);
9. Stylus Labs: word processor for handwriting;
10. rnote: Sketch and take handwritten notes;
11. Xournal++: a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support;
12. Open research discussion directly on top of arXiv;
13. wealthfolio: A Beautiful Private and Secure Desktop Investment Tracking Application.

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