Recent Favourite Reads - Newsletter [27.11.2022-31.12.2022]

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Garbage collecting unhealthy JVMs, a proactive approach
10 min
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A Close Look at the Index Include Clause
12 min
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User authorization in less than 10 milliseconds
10 min
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Software Mimicry
7 min
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One of the most exciting articles for me on this list. The author not only gives examples of mimicry in the form of design patterns but also talks about the pros/cons of closing the poor expressiveness of a language with it. I never thought about the mimicry of language features as a source for idea diffusion.
MySQL sharding at Quora - Engineering at Quora
20 min
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Match Cutting: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions Using Machine Learning
12 min
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DBA: хранение списков — таблица, массив, строка?
5 min
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Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
7 min
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You can add biometric authentication to your webpage. Here’s how
12 min
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The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture
7 min
with comments;
Backup-and-Restore of Containers with Kubernetes Checkpointing API
8 min
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Himeji: A Scalable Centralized System for Authorization at Airbnb
8 min
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Gradle: Introducing Test Suites
8 min
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The long-awaited out-of-the-box functionality finally allows you to abandon the Nebula plugin relatively cheaply. Especially useful when used in conjunction with Test Report Aggregation Plugin. In practice, it turned out to be much more verbose than with the Nebula plugin, but without external dependencies and more flexible.
Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API (Second Preview)
6 min
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Java InfoQ Trends Report - December 2022
12 min
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A debugging manifesto
5 min
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The Importance of Code Ownership
9 min
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A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon
7 min
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Why your REPL experience sucks
13 min
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Как я Jest с помощью SWC ускорял
6 min
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Why Domain-Driven Design?
12 min
with comments;
Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro
13 min
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Please Restore Our Registers When You’re Done With Them
8 min
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FFmpeg - The Ultimate Guide
1 hour
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7-zip — нет времени спешить
9 min
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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway
13 min
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How We Solved the Thundering Herd Problem
5 min
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Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language
30 min
with comments;
NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm
3 min
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Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development
14 min
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When to use gRPC vs GraphQL
12 min
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DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together
18 min
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It is not new, but it is one of the most complete articles, a one-stop for DDD with clear and insightful diagrams and full descriptions. Contains a couple of controversial points (for example, the placement of repository interfaces in the application layer), but no less beautiful because of this.
Analyzing The Top Software Development Metrics of All Time
5 min
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From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva
8 min
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The type system is a programmer's best friend
8 min
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OptiRica: Towards an Efficient Optimizing Horn Solver
1 hour
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What’s the deal with humongous objects in Java?
10 min
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Misc

The Impotence of Being Clever
10 min
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Em Dash Shortcut: What the Heck Is an Em Dash and How Do You Use It Correctly?
7 min
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Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
45 min
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Accounting For Developers: part I
8 min
, part II
7 min
, part III
12 min
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Мы разработали 44 устройства за 6 лет, продаем их по всему миру, только этого мало
45 min
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Проверяем Архитектурные стили на движке Factorio: part I
25 min
, part II
25 min
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Ловушка алгоритмизации, или как 44-ФЗ породил коррупцию
10 min
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Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
1 hour
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Interesting projects

Books