Baeldung Weekly Review 27

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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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.

Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.

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.

Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.

Refactor Java code safely — and automatically — with OpenRewrite.

Refactoring big codebases by hand is slow, risky, and easy to put off. That’s where OpenRewrite comes in. The open-source framework for large-scale, automated code transformations helps teams modernize safely and consistently.

Each month, the creators and maintainers of OpenRewrite at Moderne run live, hands-on training sessions — one for newcomers and one for experienced users. You’ll see how recipes work, how to apply them across projects, and how to modernize code with confidence.

Join the next session, bring your questions, and learn how to automate the kind of work that usually eats your sprint time.

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

>> The Features Project Jigsaw Brings To Java 9

We’re continuing the deep-dive into Jigsaw here, with a lot more practical details.

>> Who Cares About toString Performance?

Cool and useful insights into the performance of various toString implementations – generated with various libraries by the IDE. Who knew?

>> String Substring

The low level memory implications of String.substring over the history of Java.

>> More compact Mockito with Java 8, lambda expressions and Mockito-Java8 add-ons

Some very cool Mockito goodness.

>> Spring Tool Suite 3.7.0 released

On the tail of the Eclipse Mars release last week, the new Spring-specific version of Eclipse – STS – is out. Here are the New and Noteworthy.

>> Mars on Linux

And – are you’re using Eclipse Mars on Linux? I am and I’ve been seeing some weird visual artifacts – this is probably why.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

>> We Don’t Have Time to Learn It

A tactical and nuanced analysis of proposing a new tool to your team. Some good take-aways here.

>> Microservice Trade-Offs

The discussion around microservices is clearly becoming more mature. This is a fantastic read whether you’re doing microservices or not.

>> The Little Singleton

This is a fun read.

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

>> Office Politics 101 for Recovering Idealists

An insightful, solid piece on the nuances of office politics and interactions; a very good read.

Also worth reading:

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> Breakthroughs in green energy

>> My people call it an avatar

>> Seven more layers of management

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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>> Blog Interesting – 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking

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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.

Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.

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.

Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.

Modern Java teams move fast — but codebases don’t always keep up. Frameworks change, dependencies drift, and tech debt builds until it starts to drag on delivery. OpenRewrite was built to fix that: an open-source refactoring engine that automates repetitive code changes while keeping developer intent intact.

The monthly training series, led by the creators and maintainers of OpenRewrite at Moderne, walks through real-world migrations and modernization patterns. Whether you’re new to recipes or ready to write your own, you’ll learn practical ways to refactor safely and at scale.

If you’ve ever wished refactoring felt as natural — and as fast — as writing code, this is a good place to start.