1. Spring and Java

>> The best way to use Testcontainers from your Spring Boot tests! [info.michael-simons.eu]

A practical guide on how to use different components of Testcontainers with Spring Boot.

>> JDBC Profiling with VisualVM [vladmihalcea.com]

Hunting slow-running SQL queries or wanna discover N+1 query issues? Let’s see how VisualVM can help us here.

>> Project Leyden: Toward Condensers [inside.java]

A bit theoretical, but still interesting to see how the Java team is thinking about improving startup time, and app footprint.

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2. Technical & Musings

>> Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 [allthingsdistributed.com]

An experiential piece on how a distinguished engineer at AWS comes to understand and discover different parts of S3.

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3. Pick of the Week

>> What does a CTO actually do? [vadimkravcenko.com]