Baeldung Weekly Review 32

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At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven’t missed a review since.

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

>> Spring Framework 4.2 goes GA [spring]

I’m upgrading today. Literally. Nuff said.

>> Coming up in 2016: Spring Framework 4.3 & 5.0 [spring]

On top of the earlier 4.2 GA, here’s what the next steps in the Spring ecosystem look like.

>> Project Jigsaw is Really Coming in Java 9 [infoq]

A solid deep dive into Jigsaw and the upcoming Java 9.

Also worth reading:

• >> Java 8 MOOC – Session 2 Summary and >> Java 8 MOOC – Session 3 Summary [trishagee]

• >> Introduction to .war Packaging and Maven [geekabyte]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> Java for Low Latency – You’ve Got to Be Joking! [infoq]

• >> Software Architecture Videos [martinfowler]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Querydsl 4.0.3 and Querydsl 3.6.6

• >> First Release Candidate of Spring Data Release Train Gosling Available

• >> Spring Session 1.0.2 Released

• >> Apache™ Logging Services™ Project Announces Log4j™ 1 End-Of-Life; Recommends Upgrade to Log4j 2

2. Technical

>> Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data [confluent]

A long but worthwhile read about a few things the Unix architecture can teach us.

>> Events Don’t Eliminate Dependencies [bozho]

This piece makes a good point – using an event just for the sake of decoupling can, in a lot of cases – do more hard than good.

That being said, events are certainly a powerful abstraction and, if the choice to use them is well founded and justified, can lead to an elegant implementation.

>> Amazon EC2 2015 Benchmark: Testing Speeds Between AWS EC2 and S3 Regions [takipi]

Interesting data tracking the speed of all EC2 regions this year compared to last year.

>> Microservices lessons from trenches [mehdi-khalili]

Some good take-aways about what’s good about a microservice architecture. And that’s not the hype.

Also worth reading:

• >> RAM is the new SSD [jooq]

• >> Deployment Management Tools: Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible vs. SaltStack vs. Fabric [takipi]

• >> How does ELK Stack work? [voxxed]

• >> Divide And Conquer the most powerful concept in programming [jacquesmattheij]

• >> Docker containers for Visual Regression Testing setup [balamaci]

3. Musings

>> Code Kata? How About Product Kata? and

>> Ship Something for Yourself, Even if you Only Earn A Dollar and

>> The Phoenix of My New Site from the Ashes of my Battle with CSS [daedtech]

“Learning when the pressure is off” removes a lot of the roadblocks people have when trying to pick up a new skill.

And learning “product” – yeah, I wish I started to wise up and get started a decade ago.

>> We’re heading Straight for AOL 2.0 [jacquesmattheij]

An enthralling and insightful read on protocols and protocol design.

A sentence that was said by no one ever.

Also worth reading:

• >> The ‘No True Programmer’ Fallacy [jacquesmattheij]

• >> Living with yaks [cemerick]

• >> I Tried VR and It Was Just OK [codinghorror]

• >> Top Five Broken AA NPM Promises [dynatrace]

• >> Make the Magic go away. [cleancoder]

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> My PowerPoint Slides are in the Louvre

>> “Death Eater” Grey

>> Reverse my sense of right and wrong

5. Pick of the Week

Earlier this year I introduced the “Pick of the Week” section here in my “Weekly Review”. If you’re already on my email list – you got the pick already – hope you enjoyed it.

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