As monolithic systems become too large to deal with, many enterprises are drawn to breaking them down into the microservices architectural style. It is a worthwhile journey you should consider, but not an easy one.
Let’s see what to decouple and when!
#architecture #monolith #microservices #refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/break-monolith-into-microservices.html

An article describing immutability in Java with examples and also telling a bit about the history of Java.
#java #immutability #junior
https://dzone.com/articles/immutability-in-java

A post about GraalVM features and how to use them in development or usage of your application. What is interesting is that it can be used in another languages (not only jvm based) such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby and so on.
#java #graalvm #jvm #architecture #middle #senior
https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-ten-things-12d9111f307d

#java #java11 #strings #middle #senior
https://dzone.com/articles/new-methods-on-java-strings-with-jdk-11

Short article about JEP 192 or how to reduce memory consumption by 20% using string deduplication for G1 garbage collection.
#java #gc #senior
https://dzone.com/articles/easy-change-to-reduce-memory-by-20

Java Servlet API 4.0 has been released primarily to integrate the new HTTP/2 protocol and its many performance enhancing features. Also this topic contains code examples and videos.
#java #servlet #middle #senior
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javaee8-servlet4/index.html

Improve the quality of your testing with this catalogue of high-level testing anti-patterns that are technology agnostic.
Do you recognize some of these anti-patterns yet?
#testing #architecture #patterns #junior #middle
http://blog.codepipes.com/testing/software-testing-antipatterns.html

Great insights on where Java ecosystem is heading to, thanks to the survey including more than 5160 Java developers across the world!
#java
http://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2018

New releases for last week
#releases #ide #orm #hibernate
http://hibernate.org/orm/releases/5.3/
https://dzone.com/articles/intellij-idea-20182-early-access-program-is-open

#java #concurrency #junior #middle
https://dzone.com/articles/waiting-for-another-thread-with-cyclicbarrier

A sneak-peek at some interesting news about upcoming switch expressions and raw String literals in future JDK versions
#java #java11 #middle #senior
https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-10-and-beyond-a-look-at-the-potential-language-change/

Get started with Gradle with this in-depth tutorial. You will learn how to run built-in tasks, define custom tasks, integrate Gradle in a Spring Boot project and a lot more.
#tools #gradle #junior #middle
https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2018/05/gradle-tutorial.html

A topic about approach to serverless (or as author said "function-as-a-service") programming with Spring Cloud Function
#java #spring #architecture
https://www.nurkiewicz.com/2018/04/sneak-peek-at-spring-cloud-function.html

This is a great guide which shows main new features of JUnit 5 and demonstrating how to migrate from JUnit 3.x / 4.x to JUnit 5 as fast as possible.
#java #testing #junit #refactoring #middle #senior
https://itaffinity.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/the-pragmatic-migration-to-junit-5/

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. Chaos Monkey will automatically scan your Spring Components simulating Latency, Exception and AppKiller assaults.
#spring #springboot #testing #senior
https://codecentric.github.io/chaos-monkey-spring-boot/

Explore the power of Kotlin and Spring Boot combined together to create web applications within a very few lines of code.
#kotlin #spring #springboot
https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/

Java Magazine by Oracle is by far the most popular magazine for Java and related technologies.
The current issue is mostly focusing on patterns in all flavours - Design Patterns, JPA patterns, Using Domain Driven Design with Java EE and much more. You can additionally get information about major Java conferences around the world.
Don’t miss it!
#java
http://www.javamagazine.mozaicreader.com/MayJune2018

Micrometer is a dimensional-first metrics collection facade whose purpose is to allow you to time, count, and gauge your code with a vendor neutral API - like SLF4J for metrics! Take a look at how you can utilize it with Spring Boot 2.
#spring #sprinboot
https://spring.io/blog/2018/03/16/micrometer-spring-boot-2-s-new-application-metrics-collector

Speedment is a Java Stream ORM Toolkit and Runtime that allows you to view database tables as standard Java Streams. Because you do not have to mix Java and SQL, the application becomes much more compact making it faster to develop, less prone to errors and easier to maintain.
#java #stream #orm #db #sql
https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2018/05/java-stream-orm-now-with-joins.html

Great article for beginners introducing Java collections by explaining what they are, the collection hierarchy, and general benefits of using Java collections. You will examine each Collection interface including in depth explanations and examples for each.
#java #collections #junior
https://www.stackchief.com/blog/Java%20Collections%20In%20Depth