Java Weekly, Issue 272

A great write-up on conditional Spring bean annotations, and an overview of JVM memory and the challenge of tuning it for optimal performance.

Java’s Time-Based Releases

Learn about the change to time-based releases with Java, how it differs from semantic versioning and what how we can expect the support lifecycle to change

Java Weekly, Issue 270

An overview of new Spring Boot Initializr features, including an enhanced API for custom project generation, plus a handful of Spring Security OAuth releases.

Java Weekly, Issue 260

A solid post on Spring performance optimizations, and a couple of good write-ups on Hibernate and JPA.

Java Weekly, Issue 255

A quick guide to building optimized Dockerfiles for Spring Boot applications, and a Big Data cloud provisioning automation project is met with steep challenges.

Java Weekly, Issue 246

Native support for the maven surefire and failsafe plugins finally comes to JUnit 5, plus a fresh look at the four pillars of continuous testing.

Java Weekly, Issue 242

Some great writeups on Spring Boot, distributed systems, and cloud services, including a clever methodology for protecting cloud API credentials. A good week.