Intro to Gatling

A quick introduction to the Gatling performance tool and how to record a simple test scenario with it.

New Features in Java 8

A short intro into the new features of Java 8; the focus is on default and static interface methods, static method references, and Optional.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 126

An interesting and diverse week, from some Java persistence goodness to a well-executed Spring Boot migration and the LinkedIn data breach.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 123

Some cool additions to Spring Data, o solid piece on Hypermedia APIs and of course musings on microservices. A pretty good week.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 122

Some interesting Hibernate goodness, a fun read about startups and a new course I’m excited about. All in all, a good week.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 118

Jenkins 2, JUnit 5, Spring 5 – yeah, we’re definitely getting close to some exciting releases. A solid week chock full of solid writeups.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 116

An interesting week focused on culture, hiring and firing but definitely also on the upcoming developments in Java 9 and Spring 5.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 114

Some solid writeups this week, from maintaining an API for multiple versions of Java, to what’s happening with the Unsafe cleanup in Java 9.

Java Web Weekly 110

A deep dive into JVM level optimizations coming to JDK 9, a cool intro to Hystrix to build up architecture resiliency and a few other solid writeups this week.

Java Web Weekly Issue 107

Cool writeups this week – from a deep dive into less known nuances of the Java Stream API, through JPA focused test-cases for Hibernate and productivity tips.

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A quick holiday week with a few solid topics such as multiline String support in Java and hiring developers well. Happy New Year.

Java – Try with Resources

A quick and practical guide to how we can use the try-with-resources functionality introduced in Java 7 to auto-close resources and simplify our syntax.

Java Web Weekly 51

Interesting writeups this week from reducing the GC overhead of your app, to a new HTTP status code – the 451 and the evolution of the way Java does versions