1. Spring and Java

>> JEP proposed to target JDK 16: Unix-Domain Socket Channels [mail.openjdk.java.net]

More channels for NIO: Java 16 will support Unix domain sockets as part of its NIO channels and server socket channels.

>> Hibernate & Testcontainers – A Perfect Match For Your Tests? [thorben-janssen.com]

Testing Hibernate entities with TestContainers: setting up, working with random ports, and faster integration tests.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

>> Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure [netflixtechblog.com]

Meet Edgar: the Netflix way of tracing the chain of requests in a Microservices architecture at scale!

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

>> Do's and don'ts for conference organizers, a speaker's point-of-view [blog.frankel.ch]

How to organize an even better conference: a few pieces of advice to keep in mind for organizing our next conference! Yeah.

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4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> Lucky Profits [dilbert.com]

>> Training Kicked In [dilbert.com]

>> When To Reply To Boss Text [dilbert.com]

5. Pick of the Week

>> How to Get Startup Ideas [paulgraham.com]