Java Weekly, Issue 359

1. Spring and Java

>> R2DBC joins Reactive Foundation [r2dbc.io]

A good day for open standards: Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) joins the Reactive Foundation!

>> The Reactive Principles [reactive.foundation]

Design Principles for Distributed Applications: a set of best practices to design and implement highly efficient, performant, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.

>> NUMA-Aware Memory Allocations for G1 GC [sangheon.github.io]

How NUMA-awareness affects heap initialization, allocation, and logging in G1 GC.

Also worth reading:

• >> The Reactive Manifesto II [adtmag.com]
• >> From Spring Boot to Micronaut [blog.frankel.ch]
• >> Improved Cron Expressions in Spring 5.3 [spring.io]
• >> Spring Data 2020.0 – New and Noteworthy – A general Overview [spring.io]
• >> Preventing N+1 SELECT problem using Spring Data JPA EntityGraph [tech.asimio.net]
• >> Difference Between @Mock and @MockBean [rieckpil.de]
• >> Managing Multiple JDK Installations With SDKMAN! [reflectoring.io]
• >> How to Initialize Entity Associations with Spring Data JPA [thorben-janssen.com]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> A Bootiful Podcast: Spring legend Thomas Risberg on JDBC, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Kubernetes and so much more [spring.io]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Spring Data 2020.0.1 released [spring.io]
• >> Spring Framework 5.3.1 and 5.2.11 available now [spring.io]
• >> Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR9 has been released [spring.io]
• >> IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 Goes Beta! [blog.jetbrains.com]
• >> Hibernate ORM 5.3.19.Final released [in.relation.to]
• >> Spring Authorization Server 0.0.3 available now [spring.io]

2. Technical

>> How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation [netflixtechblog.com]

GraphQL Federation: providing unified APIs with distributed ownership and implementation!

Also worth reading:

• >> AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ  [infoq.com]
• >> SQL Server audit logging using triggers [vladmihalcea.com]
• >> The Resurgence of Functional Programming  [infoq.com]
• >> REST: Sorting collections [mscharhag.com]
• >> AWS IAM deep dive: How roles work [advancedweb.hu]

3. Musings

>> Write Angry! [zachholman.com]

An unorthodox approach to making more efficient processes – being angry and extremely opinionated about the current way of doing things!

Also worth reading:

• >> We suck at meetings! [bravenewgeek.com]
• >> What Are Your Niche Ideas? Let’s Do Some Case Studies [daedtech.com]

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> Coffee Productivity [dilbert.com]

>> Banana Is Not An Apple [dilbert.com]

>> No Performance Reviews [dilbert.com]

5. Pick of the Week

>> 5 Common Beliefs that Can Subtly Screw You Over [markmanson.net]

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