1. Spring and Java

>> Hibernate’s StatelessSession – What it is and how to use it [thorben-janssen.com]

Meet StatelessSession: no caches, automatic flushes, dirty checks, cascading and lazy loading but still has some benefits.

>> Introduction to Project Panama – Part 2: Variadic Functions [inside.java]

Let’s see how project Panama makes it possible to call native variadic functions in Java using the Foreign Function & Memory API.

>> Spring Data JPA MultipleBagFetchException [vladmihalcea.com]

Fetching multiple collections with Spring Data JPA and how to avoid/handle MultipleBagFetchException exception.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical & Musings

>> Hard things in Computer Science [blog.frankel.ch]

A good overview of hard problems in CS: timezones, distributed systems, bugs, and of course cache invalidation and naming stuff!

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> 100 Percent Of The Vote [dilbert.com]

>> Ratbert In Charge Of Data Security [dilbert.com]

>> Sunday Birthing Human [dilbert.com]

4. Pick of the Week

And, if you haven’t yet had a look at the survey (and prizes) here, it’s an interesting one to go through:

>> Developer Nation Survey