1. Spring and Java
>> JDK 21: Image Performance Improvements [minborgsjavapot.com]
Interesting. A 10%+ improvement in Java 21 Image IO by using VarHandle constructs.
>> Microsoft OpenJDK Introduces Experimental Feature for Improving Escape Analysis [infoq.com]
Improving the performance of escape analysis in OpenJDK by increasing the opportunities for scalar replacement.
>> Express Hibernate Queries as Type-Safe Java Streams [quarkus.io]
And, meet JPAStreamer: expressing JPA queries as standard stream API chains with type safety as the cherry on top 🙂
Also worth reading:
- >> Debugger Upskill: Basic and Advanced Stepping [blog.jetbrains.com]
- >> Prepare Your Code Bases For Future Java – Inside Java Newscast #41 [nipafx.dev]
- >> Hibernate ORM 6.2 – Partitioning support [in.relation.to]
- >> Null safety: Kotlin vs. Java [blog.frankel.ch]
- >> Hibernate ORM 6.2 – Composite aggregate mappings [in.relation.to]
- >> JFR Timestamps and System.nanoTime [foojay.io]
- >> Fault Tolerance with Spring Data and YugabyteDB [vladmihalcea.com]
- >> Journeys in Java, Level 8: Add MongoDB to Spring Cloud Config [foojay.io]
- >> Programmatically Listen to JUnit Test Results [blog.sebastian-daschner.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> From Java Security with Love – Inside Java Newscast #42 [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: opensource, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes maestro Abel Salgado Romero [spring.io]
- >> IntelliJ Coding Shortcuts You Need to Know [blog.sebastian-daschner.com]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Quarkus 2.16.2.Final Released [quarkus.io]
- >> Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.8 Released [eclipse.org]
- >> Grails 5.2.6 Released [grails.org]
- >> Micronaut Framework 3.8.4 Released [micronaut.io]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix [netflixtechblog.com]
How Netflix scales the Media ML infrastructure which includes ML-based VFX tooling, content-aware recommendations, and content enrichment.
>> Template for Efficient One-On-One Meetings [phauer.com]
Principles of great 1-1s: a set of suggestions to make the most out of one-on-one meetings.
Also worth reading:
- >> How to generate IoT Core certificates with Terraform [advancedweb.hu]
- >> Everybody is More Complex Than They Seem [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Viewing the world with mathematics [beust.com]
- >> Securing Admin Access to Apache APISIX [foojay.io]
- >> Event-driven projections in Marten explained [event-driven.io]
- >> SBOMs: First Steps in a New Journey for Developers [foojay.io]
3. Comics
>> Motivating [dilbert.com]
>> Leadership Class Trap [dilbert.com]
>> Gaming Causes Violence [dilbert.com]
4. Pick of the Week
>> Rocks, Pebbles, Sand: How to use this in practice [asmartbear.com]
