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
Detailed breakdown of the current progress and state of Project Valhalla – which is supposed to land in Java 10 or 11.
The article is following a recent talk that I shared in the review from last week.
Practical and timely illustration on how to put the new JUnit rules from Spring 4.2 to good use.
A very nice guide on migrating an MVC style app to a REST API, which then makes possible moving from Server Side JSP to full Client Side AngularJS. Very nice.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
Continues the introduction to Akka series with this well put together second installment.
Really good, in-depth writeup on the architecture of the web, potential privacy risks and one possible way to move forward.
Very cool new spec to make the web faster.
Another fantastic, in-depth read in the Call me Maybe series. I'm really enjoying these in-depth writeups of technologies I'm actually using.
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
Don't get trapped in a local maxima.
Learning to put your work out there often takes being intentional about it. Otherwise, it's far to easy to land in a job where that simply isn't part of the engineering culture.
I didn't do to much of that in the first 3 years of my career; so, after that, I made it a point to prioritize the “release early and often” culture when I took on my next job. So yeah, a good quick write-up with a few solid take-aways.
A good distinction – when you're asking for someone's time, you're also asking for their attention. And though they might have the time, they might not have the attention.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
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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Usually the weekly pick isn't pointing to my own stuff.
But since I recently made the official announcement and publicly committed to hard dates – here's what I'm working on (and will be for the next few months):
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res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)
