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. Java and Spring
Thorben finally announced his Hibernate Performance Tuning course this week.
I've been looking forward to announcing this one for a while (I knew he's working on it) because I think that our Java ecosystem is severely lacking in solid, affordable training. We have plenty of the 17$ low-quality Udemy courses and on the other end of the spectrum we have some great, in-person training that's over 1000$ / seat / day. We don't really have a lot of good alternatives in the middle. Here's a good one.
Spring Session is certainly breathing new life into working with sessions in Java. Here's an overview of what the project brings to the table.
Really good points about aspects of working with lambdas in Java.
Spring can be quite powerful if you know how to take advantage of the framework well. Here's a good way to do that with a super-useful tactic – a resolver for a custom method argument.
A couple of writeups analyzing the modularity talks that came out of this years JavaOne.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
Another must-read from Mike Amundsen about general system architecture on the web. This isn't the “oh – that's interesting” kind of writeup. It's the kind that you want to read twice.
A quick and to the point guide through some common logging problems.
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
Interesting musings about introversion and how it informs communication in the professional ecosystem. Most of the time, things aren't black and white.
Mature communication is hard as a hard thing. And after almost a decade of working on teams, I am personally just beginning to really grasp just how hard it is. This is a well thought out piece on just that.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
5. Pick of the Week
res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)
