"How to use #Java superpowers to beat #Rust in a backend challenge" -- via Leonardo Zanivan linkedin.com/pulse/how-use-…

Support for Search in all Spring Docs is being rolled out! - Visit docs.spring.io/spring-securit… - Click Search (current module/version only) - Click Search in all Spring Docs (searches the latest version of all Spring modules) - Type sample (see results from Security and Session)

This is something that every Java & Spring developer should watch: 3h deep dive workshop on how to build modular monoliths with Spring Modulith youtu.be/430YOyMNjhs?si…

A lot of folks ask, what's in Spring Modulith that you could not do with other modularity approaches on the JVM. Here is “Simplified Event Externalization with #SpringModulith”. 🍃📦 spring.io/blog/2023/09/2…

Simon Martinelli 🥼 Piotr Przybyl 🌻☮️ #StopStupidWar Gunnar Morling 🌍 You can mock at the API provider level, which is quite good as it does not require tampering with the production code docs.google.com/presentation/d…

I regret that we didn't use the term "microtest" when writing this, even though neither Brett nor Jeff, nor I knew that term back then. It was always about microtesting. Unit Tests Are FIRST: Fast, Isolated, Repeatable, Self-Verifying, and Timely buff.ly/33TtLgJ

Canon TDD -- I keep reading critiques of processes that aren't TDD, so I summarized the original definition & pointed out common misconceptions. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd

This is your yearly reminder that you should not use the system/wall clock (Java: System.currentTimeMillis()) to measure duration. Here's why: develotters.com/posts/how-not-…

Is 2024 the year that you really wrangle that old code and start doing something new with it? Martin Fowler has a good post on finding seams (with shout out to Michael Feathers) in your legacy code to better support tests, and more. martinfowler.com/bliki/LegacySe…

So, let me get this straight. You just got out of college, and you think every system needs to be distributed? That's your big revelation? Let's think about that for a second. Distributed systems are complex, they're expensive, and they're a headache to maintain. You ever heard

Server-side rendered apps have tremendously grown in popularity in the last year. @david_syer has a great overview about state-of-the-art client-side libraries like htmx.org / CEO of Terriers (same thing) and how to use them with Spring Boot. spring.io/blog/2024/03/1…

"Semantic Diffusion" is everywhere and why this matters... a #Thread 1/19

📣 Introducing my new book: Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery. 🎉 It's a comprehensive, hands-on guide to deploying and managing software in production, written for practitioners. The first half is available now, for free, on the Gruntwork blog: gruntwork.io/fundamentals-o…

the three proposals of triptych: - support PUT, PATCH & DELETE - make buttons stand alone hypermedia controls - allow partial element replacement alexanderpetros.com/triptych/ one formal proposal done, two more to go, hopefully we can get HTML moving as a hypermedia again!

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Book review: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software open.substack.com/pub/rddupplaw/…

"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence." - Niklaus Wirth.

Book Review: Java Concurrency in Practice open.substack.com/pub/rddupplaw/…

One of the sadest realities is how extraordinary the pay is for software developers in exchange for absolutely ordinary software that crashes that teenagers could produce in exchange for a new gaming computer.

Book Review: Java Performance rddupplaw.substack.com/p/book-review-…