Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
Spring Cloud Function is a new project that embraces working with functions – single units of computations. The interesting new addition here is the ability to decouple those from a particular vendor by introducing deployment-platform dependencies.
Using LocalDates as query parameters is not always as easy to use as it could be in Spring – but we can always implement our own formatters.
A super useful list of distilled of practices to remember when working with Many-To-One and One-To-Many mappings in Hibernate.
RxJava's flatMap() is raising a lot of questions – some of them are answered here.
The concept of Null is a commonly acknowledged problem, but there are certain practices that can help us to not deal with it directly.
A quick and practical example of storing EAV data using JSON and Hibernate.
Cool – the new Bean Validation 2.0 specification is ready – you can check it out on the JSR's page.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical
A comprehensive guide to using Kafka as the Event Store in a system utilizing the Event Sourcing approach. Very nice.
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
Pedantry is often annoying but at the end of the day saves us from a lot of trouble 🙂
An in-depth guide to different Microservice patterns.
Crunch time is hard for everyone, but surely there are ways to make it less painful than it actually is.
Also worth reading:
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
5. Pick of the Week
res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)