Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter 27.10.2024-15.12.2024

Main

  1. JEP 468: Derived Record Creation (Preview)

    7 min

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  2. Handling Cookies is a Minefield

    9 min

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  3. SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    18 min

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  4. JEP 487: Scoped Values (Fourth Preview)

    12 min

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  5. The Evolution of Enforcing our Professional Community Policies at Scale

    8 min

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  6. Content Drive — How we organize and share billions of files in Netflix studio

    8 min

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  7. Interval Tree Clocks: A Logical Clock for Dynamic Systems

    28 min

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  8. Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...

    12 min

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  9. Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases

    36 min

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  10. Increase Test Fidelity By Avoiding Mocks

    2 min

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  11. Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)

    20 min

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  12. Taming Consensus in the Wild (with the Shared Log Abstraction)

    16 min

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  13. Building a User Signals Platform at Airbnb

    6 min

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  14. What’s new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service

    10 min

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  15. Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler

    2 min

    with comments;
  16. Apache Iceberg: Row Lineage Proposal

    9 min

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  17. How Coinbase is Using Machine Learning to Predict Traffic and Scale Databases

    5 min

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  18. Kafka Replication Without the (Offset) Gaps

    4 min

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  19. Dragon: Schema Integration at Uber Scale

    14 min

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  20. Egoless Engineering

    18 min

    with comments;
  21. Glassdb: transactional object storage

    19 min

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  22. DataMesh: How Uber laid the foundations for the data lake cloud migration

    6 min

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  23. Jepsen report: Bufstream 0.1.0

    28 min

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  24. Capabilities for Control by Martin Odersky

    1 hour

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  25. AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it | All Things Distributed

    14 min

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  26. New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads

    3 min

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  27. Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview)

    4 min

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  28. PEP 751 – A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility

    12 min

    with related thoughts;
  29. JEP 494: Module Import Declarations (Second Preview)

    8 min

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  30. JEP 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental)

    8 min

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  31. Designing data products

    10 min

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Misc

  1. New full Sun views show sunspots, fields and restless plasma

    6 min

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  2. Device-measured stationary behaviour and cardiovascular and orthostatic circulatory disease incidence

    16 min

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  3. A common urban intersection in the Netherlands

    8 min

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  4. Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships

    6 min

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Interesting projects

  1. CoralRing: ultra-low-latency, lock-free, garbage-free, batching and concurrent circular queue (ring) in off-heap shared memory for inter-process communication (IPC);
  2. Kueue: Kubernetes-native Job Queueing;
  3. Flyte: Scalable and flexible workflow orchestration platform that seamlessly unifies data, ML and analytics stacks;
  4. OrbStack: the fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux;
  5. PeerDB: Fast, Simple and a cost-effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage;
  6. DataHub: The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack;
  7. pg_flo: Stream, transform, and route PostgreSQL data in real-time.

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