1. Spring and Java
>> Project Panama and jextract [inside.java]
Explore the secure, efficient, and modern native interaction APIs from Project Panama: foreign-Memory Access API and Foreign Linker API.
>> A Hitchhiker's Guide to Containerizing (Spring Boot) Java Apps [blog.frankel.ch]
Comparing available options to dockerize Spring Boot apps, covering docker multistage builds, JIB, Spring Boot layered JARs, and cloud-native buildpacks!
>> Java and Spring Boot multiline log support for Fluentd (EFK stack) [arnoldgalovics.com]
The path towards operational visibility: centralized logging in the K8S world using the EFK stack for Java applications.
Also worth reading:
- >> Scripting Java with a jBang [infoq.com]
- >> Nesting Collections With jOOQ 3.14’s SQL/XML or SQL/JSON support [blog.jooq.org]
- >> Native Queries with Spring Data JPA [thorben-janssen.com]
- >> Maven features I wish Gradle had: override task properties [andresalmiray.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer Audrey Neveu [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
>> An experiment with Little's Law [java-allandsundry.com]
Back to basics: an experimental take on how event arrival rate and response time affect the number of events in the system!
Also worth reading:
- >> AWS IAM deep dive: How IAM users and groups work [advancedweb.hu]
- >> KahaDB logs increasing when messages are purged [tomitribe4.com]
- >> Granularity levels in AWS IAM policies [advancedweb.hu]
3. Musings
>> 60 years of COBOL – past, present, and future [vladmihalcea.com]
COBOL ain't gonna go anytime soon: a veteran COBOL developer reflects on its dominance, speed, the demand crisis, and what the future holds for COBOL!
Also worth reading:
- >> In Defense of (Initial) Generalist Freelancing [daedtech.com]
- >> DiSH-O-TRON – Train that vision model! [blog.codecentric.de]
- >> Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole [blog.scottlogic.com]
- >> Bug Bashes [blog.scottlogic.com]
- >> Let machines talk to machines [blog.scottlogic.com]
- >> A dip in the stream [kylecordes.com]
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
>> Talk To The Experts [dilbert.com]
>> Asok is Overpaid [dilbert.com]
>> Building Codes [dilbert.com]