Java Weekly, Issue 354

1. Spring and Java

>> Shenandoah in JDK 11 – Interview With Red Hat's Team [infoq.com]

Deep insights from Kennke and Shipilev about Shenandoah's history, the interaction with other JVM parts and source code, the integration with OpenJDK, and the GC internals!

>> GitHub Welcomes the OpenJDK Project! [github.blog]

OpenJDK is now completely on GitHub as part of Java 16 and Project Skara: the number of contributors is already tripled!

>> Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods [vladmihalcea.com]

Working directly with JDBC connections in Hibernate with doWork and doReturningWork APIs.

Also worth reading:

• >> Full-Text Search with Hibernate Search and Spring Boot [reflectoring.io]
• >> Remote File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow [spring.io]
• >> Java InfoQ Trends Report—September 2020 [infoq.com]
• >> Processing Files With Java 8 Streams [reflectoring.io]
• >> Sealed Java State Machines [benjiweber.co.uk]
• >> Type-Safe and Intuitive Hibernate/JPA Queries by Leveraging Java Streams [minborgsjavapot.com]
• >> java.util.PrimitiveIterator.OfInt [javaspecialists.eu]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> How the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java Code [infoq.com]
• >> A Bootiful Podcast: Long time Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma on Spring's web support, Scala, API Design, Reactive programming and more [spring.io]
• >> A Year with Java 11 in Production! [infoq.com]
• >> MPremiering: Cloud Native Java, Redux [spring.io]

Time to upgrade:

• >> IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.3 Is Available [blog.jetbrains.com]
• >> Release: Hibernate ORM 5.4.22.Final [in.relation.to]
• >> Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3 Released [spring.io]
• >> Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB V3 – Generally Available [spring.io]

2. Technical

>> On learning a new programming language [blog.frankel.ch]

A critical take and guide on learning a new programming language.

Also worth reading:

• >> REST: Working with asynchronous operations [mscharhag.com]
• >> Loopy [blog.cleancoder.com]
• >> Maintainable error handling with Feign clients? Not a dream anymore [arnoldgalovics.com]

3. Musings

>> The five pillars of IT security [blog.codecentric.de]

An effective, and not just additive, approach to integrating IT security into organizations!

Also worth reading:

• >> The AWS account administrator's guide to MFA [advancedweb.hu]
• >> Home office headsets: consider open-back [kylecordes.com]
• >> To Market Yourself as a Freelance Dev, Stop Posturing for Your Peers [daedtech.com]

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> No Mask For Zoom Call [dilbert.com]

>> Astrology Filter [dilbert.com]

>> Robots Will Sneak Up On Us [dilbert.com]

5. Pick of the Week

>> 8 Logical Fallacies That Mess Us All App [markmanson.net]

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