Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
A quick look at Unleash, a Node.js service for managing feature toggles across a collection of microservices, with a simple Java-based configuration example.
A good write-up showing how messaging between Message-Driven Beans can lead to powerful, asynchronous architectures.
And Gluon announces their client plugin for Maven and Gradle, which will compile a Java app and its dependencies to native code.
Also worth reading:
Webinars and presentations:
Time to upgrade:
2. Technical and Musings
An exercise in developing a Question Answering (QA) solution using Analytics Zoo on Azure's Big Data platform.
And a few good reasons why secret keys should come from environment variables and should never be hard-coded.
Also worth reading:
3. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
4. Pick of the Week
Last week, I wrote about Codota – a really interesting coding assistant I found and have been using.
The response to the video was overwhelmingly positive, which is always super cool to see.
Here's Codota directly, in case you missed it. My suggestion is to simply install it and have it running in the background, as you're coding normally:
res – REST with Spring (eBook) (everywhere)