Java Web Weekly 39

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

>> JEP 269: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections [java.net]

Quick and clean JDK making collection creation easier in Java. This is how the language gets better.

>> Resource versioning with Spring MVC [mscharhag.com]

Highly useful writeup on making your static assets cacheable with Spring – simple and to the point.

Also worth reading:

• >> Sonarqube And Java 8 [alexecollins.com]

• >> Spring Sweets: Reload Classes Spring Boot With Spring Loaded And Gradle Continuous Build [mrhaki]

• >> Deploying Spring Boot Applications to Heroku [devcenter.heroku.com]

• >> Groovy and Grails Plans Announced at SpringOne2GX [infoq.com]

• >> High Level Plans for Spring 4.3 and 5.0 Announced at SpringOne2GX [infoq.com]

• >> Custom operators for collections in Java [vanillajava]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> Introduction to Java Profiling [infoq.com]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Spring Boot 1.2.6 released [spring.io]

• >> Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.1 GA is Available [spring.io]

• >> Spark framework logo Spark 2.3 released [sparkjava.com]

• >> Now Available – Amazon Linux AMI 2015.09 [aws.amazon.com]

• >> IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.5 Update is Out [jetbrains.com]

• >> Krwkrw 0.1.3 Released [geekabyte]

2. Technical

>> Writing an Event-Sourced CQRS Read Model [squirrel.pl]

Yet another solid writeup exploring the details of an Event-Sourced architecture – this time focusing on re-projecting all events on to an empty projection.

>> Scale it to Billions — What They Don’t Tell you in the Cassandra README [threatstack.com]

If you're running a Cassandra cluster, this stuff can and will save your bacon.

Also worth reading:

• >> Call me Maybe: Percona XtraDB Cluster [aphyr.com]

• >> AWS Storage Update – New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction [aws.amazon.com]

3. Musings

>> Remember to Reevaluate [bitquabit.com]

Maybe taking a second look at a technology that I formed an opinion on five years ago is a good idea. That being said – I'm not looking at SVN again.

>> The Universality of Postel's Law [michaelfeathers.silvrback.com]

“Design is deep topic. One could say it’s the deepest.”

>> How we lost (and found) millions by not A/B testing [signalvnoise.com]

Good take-aways from a major design change, a re-positioning campaign and a general re-brand.

Also worth reading:

• >> The “consensus” is sometimes wrong [lemire.me]

• >> Managing to Avoid Cobras [daedtech.com]

• >> Modularity on My Honeymoon [daedtech.com]

4. Comics

And my favorite comics of the week:

>> Coder leaves nothing to chance [commitstrip.com]

>> The blob-ject [commitstrip.com]

>> Picture a Grassy Field [xkcd.com]

5. Pick of the Week

I haven't been super public with this – but a few months back I opened up Baeldung to other authors.

I've been slowly realizing that I just can't cover all the cool stuff readers are asking me to write about, so if you're interested in writing for the site – send me a line:

>> Write for Baeldung

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