- GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17: Compare parallel, g1, zgc collectors in java8,11,17. Efficiency improved greatly in more modern jvms.
- An unreasonable investment: “Your career is not your job. It’s the humans you help along the way.”
- Seven Steps to Monday Ramp: Nice start of week practice to find the important things and focus on them.
- Runbooks: An On-Call person’s best friend: Nice list of should haves for runbooks along with good process advice for keeping them up to date
- Gitlab runbook repo: These are great as an example starting point
- The 2024 Bookmark Situation: Michael Lopp’s bookmarking reading practice with rss, news sites, and other stuff
- Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel: Conversation with Linus about linux past, present and future and how we currently relates to its evolution. Loved this one a lot this year!
- Tech talk G1: To Infinity and Beyond: Overview of different gc strategies in modern jvms. Tradeoffs to be had.
- Tines: scale by design and by default: Straightforward architecture for an important application. Keeping it easier to reason about makes it easier to enhance and operate.
- ‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud: DHH talks about the move out of aws to self hosted hardware. The savings sound substantial.
- Tech talk P99 CONF: Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns panel w/ Bryan Cantrill, Adam Jacob, Ashley Williams: Great talk about open source software and how companies are doing it. Great 30m conversation between the Cantrill, Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob! (Chef dude) This is one of my favourite tech talks in awhile. ;)
- “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled”: Good reminder for me about where we’re all headed and that there are things I can do to help out people who are already there while I’m able.
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