At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung.
Here we go…
1. Spring
Let’s star the review with some exciting news – lots of Spring releases this week:
And of course, a few more recordings from SpringOne – most about Spring XD:
A very helpful and to the point post on putting together the right Maven dependencies to use Spring Data JPA.
And a solid intro to build a REST API with Boot and MongoDB.
A detailed, infrastructure level article on building your own Spring Boot Starter, if you can’t find an existing one that already covers your needs. And who knows – perhaps it will someday became official.
When @Profile was introduced in Spring, it had quite an effect on the way we could control our configuration. We could do things with profiles that simply weren’t possible before, at least not cleanly – which is ultimately what you’re looking for in a good abstraction.
Spring 4.0 improved on @Profile by introducing @Conditional – a next level of abstraction annotation that basically allow you to control your configuration based on any number of conditions, not just profiles.
This piece goes into some detail on how to use these conditional annotations that Spring Boot makes available.
2. Java
A cool though experiment on what would make sense in a new Java Beans 2.0 spec. But more than just that – an actual, early implementation you can check out (and contribute to).
Off heap memory for the JVM is one of those things you read about but may never actually use. Even so, this is a piece I enjoyed reading.
An oldie but a goodie – the double curly braces instantiation. Yeah – not a good idea.
An article on version-less optimistic locking – a cool Hibernate feature I didn’t know about.
A must read on handling validation properly and how to refactor your way to a better notification based solution.
I’ve been using a lot of Elasticsearch lately and this was helpful.
3. Technical and Musings
A very articulate and engaging 15 minute interview with Chris Richardson on CQRS architecture.
If you’re building micro-services (or thinking about it) – CQRS and Event Sourcing are a solid way to go.
Pragmatic piece on being critical and reevaluating your beliefs, even (or especially) the industry accepted ones you previously took for granted. A better way may be available if you just look at the problem differently.
4. Comics
All in with Dilbert this week:
5. Pick of the Week
I recently 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.
If not – you can share the review and unlock it right here:
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Arguably one of the more influential pieces of writing by Eric S. Raymond, and a fascinating read. Here’s a prettier version if you the original XHTML is to clean 🙂
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