1. Spring and Java

>> Kotlin 1.8.0 Released [blog.jetbrains.com]

Better performing reflection, enhanced debugging, IO experimental functions, and more in a new Kotlin release.

>> Java 20: An Almost Infinite Memory Segment Allocator [minborgsjavapot.com]

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could allocate an infinite amount of memory? Let’s see how we can do this with Java 20.

>> Entity Views with Blaze Persistence – The better DTO projections? [thorben-janssen.com]

Blaze persistence improvements for DTO projections: annotation-based mapping and the ability to map complex entity relationships.

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2. Technical & Musings

>> API Design Patterns [blog.frankel.ch]

Reviewing the API Design Patterns book: best practices for API design along with motivation, implementation details, and trade-off for each pattern.

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3. Comics

>> AI Replacing Jobs [dilbert.com]

>> Wally Uses AI [dilbert.com]

>> How To Kill Your Boss [dilbert.com]

4. Pick of the Week

>> Quality and effort [seths.blog]