1. Spring and Java

>> Shenandoah in JDK 11 – Interview With Red Hat’s Team [infoq.com]

Deep insights from Kennke and Shipilev about Shenandoah’s history, the interaction with other JVM parts and source code, the integration with OpenJDK, and the GC internals!

>> GitHub Welcomes the OpenJDK Project! [github.blog]

OpenJDK is now completely on GitHub as part of Java 16 and Project Skara: the number of contributors is already tripled!

>> Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods [vladmihalcea.com]

Working directly with JDBC connections in Hibernate with doWork and doReturningWork APIs.

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Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

>> On learning a new programming language [blog.frankel.ch]

A critical take and guide on learning a new programming language.

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3. Musings

>> The five pillars of IT security [blog.codecentric.de]

An effective, and not just additive, approach to integrating IT security into organizations!

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4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> No Mask For Zoom Call [dilbert.com]

>> Astrology Filter [dilbert.com]

>> Robots Will Sneak Up On Us [dilbert.com]

5. Pick of the Week

>> 8 Logical Fallacies That Mess Us All App [markmanson.net]