At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven’t missed a review since.
Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
>> Impulse: “Adventures On The Road to Valhalla” [codefx.org]
Detailed breakdown of the current progress and state of Project Valhalla – which is supposed to land in Java 10 or 11.
The article is following a recent talk that I shared in the review from last week.
>> Parameterized integration tests with Spring JUnit Rules [codeleak.pl]
Practical and timely illustration on how to put the new JUnit rules from Spring 4.2 to good use.
>> Migrating a Spring Web MVC application from JSP to AngularJS [spring.io]
A very nice guide on migrating an MVC style app to a REST API, which then makes possible moving from Server Side JSP to full Client Side AngularJS. Very nice.
Also worth reading:
>> Java Style Guidelines (Draft) [java.net]
>> Getting Started With Gradle: Creating a Spring Boot Web Application Project [petrikainulainen.net]
>> Embedding ElasticSearch In a Spring Application [geekabyte]
>> More DevOps for Spring Boot [frankel.ch]
>> Internationalization in Spring Boot [spr.com]
Webinars and presentations:
>> Takipi’s Tal Weiss Talks Candidly About Enterprise Debugging Practices (+ announcement) [infoq.com]
>> Protocols of Interaction: Best Current Practices [infoq.com]
Time to upgrade:
>> Hibernate ORM 5.0 has goes Final! [in.relation.to]
>> Spring AMQP 1.5.0 Release Candidate Available and >> Spring Integration 4.2 Release Candidate is Available [spring.io]
>> Spring Boot 1.3.0.M4 Available Now [spring.io]
2. Technical
>> Introduction to Akka Actors [codecentric.de]
Continues the introduction to Akka series with this well put together second installment.
>> Will there be a Distributed HTTP? [mnot.net]
Really good, in-depth writeup on the architecture of the web, potential privacy risks and one possible way to move forward.
>> Eliminating Roundtrips with Preconnect [igvita.com]
Very cool new spec to make the web faster.
>> Call me Maybe: Chronos [aphyr.com]
Another fantastic, in-depth read in the Call me Maybe series. I’m really enjoying these in-depth writeups of technologies I’m actually using.
Also worth reading:
>> Using JSON in a low latency environment [vanillajava]
>> Thomas Müller Unveils How HSQLDB Evolved into the Popular H2 Database [jooq.org]
3. Musings
>> The parable of the 57.6k modem [dandreamsofcoding.com]
Don’t get trapped in a local maxima.
>> Developers Who Can Build Things from Scratch [aaronstannard.com]
Learning to put your work out there often takes being intentional about it. Otherwise, it’s far to easy to land in a job where that simply isn’t part of the engineering culture.
I didn’t do to much of that in the first 3 years of my career; so, after that, I made it a point to prioritize the “release early and often” culture when I took on my next job. So yeah, a good quick write-up with a few solid take-aways.
>> The difference between time and attention [signalvnoise.com]
A good distinction – when you’re asking for someone’s time, you’re also asking for their attention. And though they might have the time, they might not have the attention.
Also worth reading:
>> Don’t Be a Human Resource [daedtech.com]
>> What Functional Programming Is + Why It Makes You Better [functionalworks]
>> Cleverness kills [dandreamsofcoding.com]
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
>> It’s like stabbing Gandhi
>> You don’t have any friends, do you?
>> Said the engineer with no budget
5. Pick of the Week
Earlier this year I introduced the “Pick of the Week” section here in my “Weekly Review”. If you’re already on my email list – you got the pick already – hope you enjoyed it.
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Usually the weekly pick isn’t pointing to my own stuff.
But since I recently made the official announcement and publicly committed to hard dates – here’s what I’m working on (and will be for the next few months):
>> My Upcoming “REST With Spring” Classes
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