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
Let's start with the yearly report from RebelLabs, providing some very interesting insights into the trends of our ecosystem.
Very cool, to the point walk-through how the connection leaks in the large Hibernate test suite were handled.
An early look at the upcoming JUnit 5.
Reactive programing is coming to Spring with version 5 – we know that by now.
The question is – what are the scenarios where it's going to make a significant difference and how can we use it before Spring 5 comes out.
And this new installment does a good job answering both of these questions.
There are projects where you can use some of the nicer ways of doing audit. And then there are some codebases where that's not possible without major and painful refactoring. Luckily, there's a clean, manual way of doing audit as well.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
Data is of course the most complex part of doing Microservices well, and in my experience, the number one reason teams fail during these kinds of implementations.
It turns out that, for example – getting transactional boundaries right across multiple systems is a hard problem to solve, especially without a very good understanding of the semantics to achieve in the system and a clear set of self-imposed limitations at the start.
A quick, interesting read using a pattern I knew very little about – Model-View-ViewModel.
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
I enjoy reading through these listener questions, as they're a nice change of pace.
And, just as a quick side-note, writing a feature without using the if keyword anywhere is certainly a nice way to spend the weekend 🙂
An intro to the thinking, expectations and how-to of dipping your toe into the deep waters of static analysis.
During the last couple of years, the company I'm working for has grown from 2 to more than 600-700 (last time I checked).
It's definitely quite a ride to go through that kind of growth, and this writeup makes some good points about how to do that well.
A quick read, a solid reading list and some inspiration.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
5. Pick of the Week
res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)
