Watkins Memorial senior volleyball star Jenna Lucas has been named to the Division I All-Ohio second team. She finished as the Watkins Memorial Volleyball single-season and all-time leader in kills and blocks. newarkadvocate.com/story/sports/h…

Check out: Enterprise #Observability with Trace Context & #OpenTelemetry with Christopher M. Judd at #jconfdev December 9, 2022. #java #javacommunity #cloudnative 2021.jconf.dev

Here’s a #Log4Shell Remediation cheat sheet I wrote with my Snyk colleague Kirill Efimov Plenty of options of how to find and fix your #log4j vulnerabilities. **Please share with the community!** snyk.io/blog/log4shell…

Ok, due to popular demand. Hey, by now, if you work even remotely with the #JVM, you probably are aware of the #Log4Shell exploit. Guess what could easily fix this? The Security Manager! Guess what the @Java team decided for the Security Manager in v17? Deprecate it!

Are you a Verizon user? You may want to check your privacy settings. The company is tracking its users by default, and many may not realize. @jasonaten shares how users can better protect their privacy by tweaking Verizon settings. inc.com/jason-aten/ver…

You can get rid of most #annotations in #SpringFramework, and even more so if you’re using #Kotlin. In this post, I’d like to show you how to remove annotations for different features that Spring provides blog.frankel.ch/annotation-fre… #fromthearchives

#SpringBoot 2.7.0 Released With Support for #GraphQL, #Podman and #Cache2k infoq.com/news/2022/06/s…

Every time you launch tests for the app, you don't need to run tons of @Liquibase/Flyway scripts over and over again. Go to the final schema and data state using #SQL as @Baeldung explains: baeldung.com/spring-boot-da…. JPA Buddy will help to generate it: youtu.be/u75s7pIyZqU.

Discussing Backend For Front-end Nicolas Frankel 🇺🇦🇬🇪 discusses one possible solution for the increased complexity of system architecture: moving logic from each microservice to a dedicated deployable endpoint. Read now: hubs.ly/Q01hsYWg0

Thrilled to announce the release of "Functional Programming in Java, 2nd Edition" PragmaticProgrammers Please check out: pragprog.com/titles/vsjava2…

How do #Kotlin #DSL libraries work. By Simon Wirtz droidcon.com/2022/09/15/kot…

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Introducing the @GraalVM Free License: blogs.oracle.com/java/post/graa… I somehow missed that! If you're stuck on the JVM due to past investment, I think GraalVM is one easy way out

Democrats show they know how to unite better than Republicans once again. It is what it is.

For the first time since 1999, your BGSU Falcons are the MAC Indoor Champions!!

Just got caught up in the latest round of terminations from Microsoft. If anyone needs a "batteries included" advocate who really knows code, AI, and real production concerns + solutions, ping me! Ready to make great things happen for you. Onward and upward!

Thrilled to announce that Cruising Along with #Java is now in print. I thank the reviewers for all their valuable comments and corrections, my amazing editor Jackie, and the wonderful folks at the Pragmatic Bookshelf PragmaticProgrammers for making this happen. pragprog.com/titles/vscajav…

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