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Baeldung Weekly Review 24
Last updated: August 6, 2021
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.
Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.
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 track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung.
2014 has been quite the year, covering each week with a review. I’ve been doing a lot more reading to make sure I cover and curate stuff that has value and is actually worth reading.
Let me know in the comments if you’re finding my reviews interesting and useful.
Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
>> CORS support in Spring Framework
Very nice support for CORS getting here in Spring 4.2 – this is going to help quite a bit.
>> 12 Tools That I Use for Writing Unit and Integration Tests
This is THE testing toolbox in the Java ecosystem. Lots of good libraries to pick up from here.
>> ETags and Spring Data REST
A good, to the point intro to ETags in the upcoming version of Spring Data REST. Cool stuff.
Also worth reading:
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>> Feedback welcome: Spring 5 system requirements
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>> How does Hibernate Query Cache work
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>> Optional Dependencies
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>> New Courseware for IntelliJ IDEA
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>> Java Bytecode: Bending the Rules
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
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>> Lucene & Solr 5.2
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>> Elasticsearch 1.6.0 released
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>> Jackson Release 2.5.4
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>> Hibernate Search 5.3.0.Final now available!
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>> Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 GA released
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>> JHipster release 2.16.0
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>> Spring Boot 1.3.0.M1 Available Now
2. Technical
>> Don’t start with a monolith
If your goal for a new project is a microservice architecture, you have a foundational question to ask yourself as you get going. Should I start on easy monolith route and break it apart into microservices and responsibilities later, or will it be better to enforce these clear responsibilities from the start?
This piece, along with the one from last week, is a nuanced and well-balanced discussion of this choice.
It has been my experience that both approaches work given the team has very high discipline. If I were to make the choice today, and there would be no question that the goal is the microservice architecture – then I would start with microservices from the very beginning.
>> Why we need Resilient Software Design
A good, short interview on system resiliency at scale.
>> Comparing Application Deployment: 2005 vs. 2015
The Times They Are a-Changin’.
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>> Introducing TLS Maturity Model
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>> Which AWS Reserved Instance should you choose?
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>> Cloud Computing, Server Utilization, & the Environment
3. Musings
>> Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns
Great insights into public speaking, specifically about getting better at it.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
>> Never been cubicled…
>> Training Customers
>> You’ll have to do some actual work
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.
If not – you can share the review and unlock it right here:
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A very handy reference for Garbage Collection:
>> Java Garbage Collection handbook
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