Interesting links - July 2026

Sheesh, 162 links this month. What is going ON? There is just too much interesting material being written, and that’s after filtering out clanker slop. I’m pretty sure I need to curtail the scope of these link posts at some point. I added the 🔥 emoji a while back to make it easier for folk to just skim for the top links. It’s been a quiet blogging month for me, with just one post capturing my rant on LinkedIn about companies using LLMs to write content…to feed to LLMs. This month I’ve been mostly busy with the launch of the new blog over on Confluent Developer. The first two articles are up: Keith Lee - How we cut Flink OOMKills by 91.2%: Zombie block cache, phantom CPUs (and some bonus AI Learnings). Sandon Jacobs - Kafka Queues for Quarkus. Make sure to follow the Confluent Developer Blog RSS feed for more!