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Baeldung Weekly Review 46
Last updated: May 9, 2018
Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
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Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
Orkes is the leading workflow orchestration platform built to enable teams to transform the way they develop, connect, and deploy applications, microservices, AI agents, and more.
With Orkes Conductor managed through Orkes Cloud, developers can focus on building mission critical applications without worrying about infrastructure maintenance to meet goals and, simply put, taking new products live faster and reducing total cost of ownership.
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Mocking is an essential part of unit testing, and the Mockito library makes it easy to write clean and intuitive unit tests for your Java code.
Get started with mocking and improve your application tests using our Mockito guide:
Spring 5 added support for reactive programming with the Spring WebFlux module, which has been improved upon ever since. Get started with the Reactor project basics and reactive programming in Spring Boot:
Since its introduction in Java 8, the Stream API has become a staple of Java development. The basic operations like iterating, filtering, mapping sequences of elements are deceptively simple to use.
But these can also be overused and fall into some common pitfalls.
To get a better understanding on how Streams work and how to combine them with other language features, check out our guide to Java Streams:
Explore Spring Boot 3 and Spring 6 in-depth through building a full REST API with the framework:
Yes, Spring Security can be complex, from the more advanced functionality within the Core to the deep OAuth support in the framework.
I built the security material as two full courses - Core and OAuth, to get practical with these more complex scenarios. We explore when and how to use each feature and code through it on the backing project.
You can explore the course here:
Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
Orkes is the leading workflow orchestration platform built to enable teams to transform the way they develop, connect, and deploy applications, microservices, AI agents, and more.
With Orkes Conductor managed through Orkes Cloud, developers can focus on building mission critical applications without worrying about infrastructure maintenance to meet goals and, simply put, taking new products live faster and reducing total cost of ownership.
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Spring Data JPA is a great way to handle the complexity of JPA with the powerful simplicity of Spring Boot.
Get started with Spring Data JPA through the guided reference course:
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At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to start to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung.
Curating my reading has made it more purposeful and diverse – and I’m hopefully providing value to you as well by allowing the best content of the week to raise to the top.
Here we go…
1. Java and Spring
>> Oracle announces more new Java 9 features!
New Java 9 features were announced this week. We knew modularity was the main focus, but we didn’t know logging is getting a facelift and the GC options a bit of a cleanup.
>> A beginner’s guide to Java time zone handling
The basics of dealing with time in Java – good stuff.
>> Interrupting Executor Tasks
I like this blog – it’s almost always something I find bookmarking after I read it. This one is about the details of how to handle canceling ongoing work happening inside a thread.
I have only vague recollections of doing this a few years back – and unfortunately I didn’t take notes. Turns out I can just refer back to this piece.
>> ExecutorService – 10 tips and tricks
Practical suggestions to follow when working with thread pools. Even one hidden behind the Springs @Async abstraction will benefit from a lot of these points. All in all, if you’re using them, go read this one – you’ll save yourself some time.
>> Devoxx 2014 – Whiteboard votes
Interesting snapshot of the Java ecosystem by voters from Devoxx 2014. Worth a quick read.
Of course new Spring recordings from SpringOne came out this week:
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: What’s new in Spring Data?
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Java 8 Language Capabilities, What’s in it for you?
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Developer Tooling – What’s New and What’s Next
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>> Screencast: How to create a RESTful app in five minutes or less
2. Technical and Musings
>> Continuous Delivery 101: Automated Deployments
Continuous Deployment is the way to go – I don’t think anyone would argue with that. Getting there though is a different story – this piece is a quick and to the point maturity model for CD – a very useful thing to keep in your back pocket when you’re setting up Jenkins for your next project.
>> Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
This presentation-style deck is a very good place to start understanding microservices.
2014 has definitely been a year of growth and adoption for this architectural style, but – based on the number of failure stories that come out recently – it shouldn’t be treated as a default go-to.
Regardless, this deck is a balanced and well put together resource.
>> CAP Should Be CLAP
Very good read on why latency should be part of our discussion about CAP and our reasoning about availability. Definitely worth a read.
>> Annihilating Complexity
The fact that some people naturally add complexity to any scenario and some remove it is one of those things that – once you grok – you start seeing everywhere. And there’s worse things to be seeing everywhere – like the number 11 (I knew a guy).
To cut a long story short – like all models, this one is a bit of a simplification, but a very useful one. Useful in the fact that it gives you a good frame to look at your own solutions to a given problem analytically and improve.
>> How do I still write code as a Tech Lead?
Useful tactics on being an effective Tech lead. And effective means not putting distance between yourself and the code – if you stop coding, then you stop being a good lead.
3. Comics
You though I’m running out of good XKCD? Think again:
>> CD Tray Fight
>> The Difference
>> Connoisseur
4. 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 should subscribe to get the next one.
