You might like to try conferences like PLDI (Programming Language Design & Implementation), OOPSLA (whatever that ridiculous acronym is for), and VEE (Virtual Execution Environments)

Edited to add: some overflow also happens into conferences like OSDI, ASPLOS, CGO, and other related OS/arch/compilers conference venues

Props on the nature subscription, I had a subscription with physical copies that were fun to thumb through to really get a scope on my lack of understanding of everything in the world.

Why acedemic journals? Each article are all bleeding edge experimentation and theory that only the authors a handful of people really understand.

O'Reilly has a great subscription option and their books are very comprehensive and easy to read.

I wouldn’t call it a scientific journal, but I always find something interesting to read in the Communications of the ACM.

https://cacm.acm.org

Is it safe to assume you’ve search for those terms on Google Scholar to see which journals are publishing content relevant to you?

I found Science magazine to be the best balance between pop & technical...

https://www.science.org/journal/science

for the specific domain that you're interested-in, I suspect that a mixture of best-of-breed books & the actual live code of in-production projects, would be best?

While there used-to-be zillions of different magazines, that's .. kinda specific, and narrow, you know?

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