Category: This Week in Dev

This Week in Dev (TWiD) is a curated list with the most funny and interesting articles I stumble upon during my work and research time.

Java

• The 13 Decks Java Developers Must See to Stay Updated by Takipi is a great list with the most interesting decks about Java collected from a wide range of events, meetups and talks.

• The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2016 by Takipi where they analysed 47 251 dependencies on Github.

• Logging is a vital part in your software development daily life and Common Log4J Mistakes is a short and interesting read for every software developer out there.

Distributed Systems

• Understanding Consensus and Paxos in Distributed Systems is your Paxos and Consensus 101 article. An easy read with real life examples about Consensus and Paxos in distributed systems.

General

• The Benefits of Pure Functions is an interesting blog post by Venkat Subramaniam where he explains how to paralelize tasks with pure functions vs the traditional imperative programming.

Others

• How Uber and the Public Transit is Changing Southern California’s Car Culture.

This Week in Dev (TWiD) is a curated list with the most funny and interesting articles I stumble upon during my work and research time.

This issue is more focused on DevOps, a hot trend at the moment.

• Stackoverflow is one of the biggest sites on the internet. Such sites have more than one server. Deploying your new version can be tricky and hard to manage. Nick Craver, Software Developer and Systems Administrator at Stackoverflow, explains how Stackoverflow deploys to production.

• Apache Mesos, a distributed systems kernel, abstracts your cluster of nodes into a single pool of resources. DC/OS is an enterprise grade datacenter scale operating system. Codecentric uploaded a short and entertaining video explaining What is DC/OS and Mesos?

• Continuous Integration (CI) is a hot topic in the DevOps world. Joseph Heck blogged the Six rules for setting up continuous integration systems.

Software Developer

• We all have heard or been hit by Murphy’s Law. But do you know the 15 Fundamental Laws of Software Development is funny but rather interesting blog post on how to sound smart at your next team meeting. No, really it is an interesting read.

• Have you ever thought or are you curious to know how’s the life of a software developer after 40? Then this is an interesting read.

• Bugs are the worst enemy for every software developer. We try as hard as we can to avoid them but sometimes they just pop out of nowhere. Still, are software developers the only ones dealing with bugs? No, not really.

Technology

• Hacking Team, a rather famous (not for the best reasons) surveillance company got hacked some time ago. Compromising documents were released. The hacker explained how he got access into Hacker Team’s internal network.

 

And… that’s all folks. See you next week.

Welcome to the seventh issue of This Week in Dev.

Java

• Converting exceptions into HTTP status codes, another short and great blog post by Adam Bien. Don’t forget to also have a look at Mapping JPA OptimisticLockException into HTTP status code.

• Mario Fusco is posting a series of articles about the popular Gang Of Four design patters in a functional way. So far, there are two articles released, here’s part one and part two.

• Sometimes you need to log the data access in our application. The problem comes when you are using a data access framework, like Hibernate, that uses PreparedStatement and the bound values are not logged. To bypass this issue, Vlad Mihalcea has an interesting article on the best way of logging JDBC statements.

• Lightbend, former TypeSafe, has launched Lagom, a microservices framework. Yannick De Turck and Andreas Evers share their First Impressions and Initial Comparison to Spring Cloud.

• Takipi blogged about the current status of Java EE. For those around or following the Java EE community, this is a good read. Has Oracle given up on Enterprise software?

• Microservices is a buzz term nowadays. Kelly Goetsch, director of product management at Oracle shares, probably, Oracle’s next steps towards microservices.

General development

• When to rewrite from scratch? Why, when and lessons learnt. Autopsy of a failed software. We all had that feeling of rewriting our product from scratch, before making a decision you should read this.

 

This is it folks, see you next week.

Welcome to another issue of TWID. This time it is a bit more relaxed but still an interesting one.

The JVM World

• Voxxed has an interesting blog post introducing Speedment with Java 8. Speedment is toolkit to convert large relational databases into in memory objects.

• Sooner or later, every software engineer will stumble upon JSON. Some love it others don’t. If you hate it, you should give a try to Hjson, the Human JSON.

Scalability

• How to scale to 11+ million users on Amazon’s AWS, a beginner’s guide.

Show Cases

• Turn any website into an API with WrapAPI.

• Harshil Lodhi got bored and hacked his local ISP.

• Software engineering depicted by artists through history.

 

Time to say goodbye. Enjoy your week!

This week we have a rather short list, nevertheless still quite interesting.

• We should always aim to be as efficient as possible. Efficient JAX-RS: Conditional GETs & PUTs discusses how to leverage the JAX-RS API in order to be performant and scalable.

• Do you know Vert.x? It’s a very nice and intuitive toolkit to build reactive applications on the JVM. Check out what happens when Weld meets Vert.x.

• Java 8 was released two years ago and in 2016 Java 8 is picking up some steam, you can check this and more at Plumbr – Java version and vendor data analysed: 2016.

• Working solo or remote? Check out Kite, your virtual pair programming partner. Still missing some big IDEs names but the plugins are open source, feel free to improve or add your own plugin.

• Technology Radar by ThoughtWorks is always a great source for the next trendy technologies and tools. Mike Mason talks about the Macro Trends in the Technology Industry, with interesting topics ranging from team work to productivity.

• Writing email templates? Need inspiration? Check out Good Email Copy and get a peak where the email trend and design is heading to.

And last, but not least, check out this book parody by Practical Developer.

Time to say goodbye and see you next week.

Welcome to This Week in Dev #4. From now on TWID will be published at the beginning of the week.

Let’s begin with Docker.

• Have you ever wondered how can you monitor your Docker instances? Arun Gupta has an interesting blog post on how to monitor your docker instances.

Time to jump on the JVM world.

• Java EE applications are not as heavyweight as you may expect and Sebastian Daschner explains why.

• We all have to find bugs. That’s how life is for a software developer. Voxxed has a nice article on how to efficiently troubleshoot Jave EE applications.

• Performance is always a key feature in your apps and plenty of times caching comes hand to hand with performance. Heroku has some tips on how to implement HTTP caching in Java with JAX-RS.

• Quinten De Swaef has been posting about microservices with Spring Boot and the Netflix stack. Part 1 – Spring Boot & Eureka, Part 2 – Spring Boot & Hystrix and Part 3 – Spring Boot & Feign.

Meanwhile, on Android.

• Looking to customise your status bar? There’s a library customise the status bar style.

• Bored of Java 7? Wait for Android N, it will support Java 8. At least some of it features. Is it a replacement for retrolambda?

Time to wrap up…

• Have you ever wondered what every browser knows about you?

• Extreme data compression, the Youtube channel for the Google Developers team explains how you can achieve extreme data compression.

And that’s it. See you next week.

 

 

Today we have a rather long “This Week in Dev”.

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Baeldung.com explains the best ways to deal with bidirectional relationships with Jackson.

Are you new to Java 8 Completable Future or Async programming? You definitely have to watch this talk by José Paumard at Devoxx Belgium, Asynchronous Programming in Java 8: How to Use CompletableFuture.

Why you should be careful when working with phone numbers, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers.

We all know how big is the Chinese market but did you know that it is so big that it has its own UI mobile trends?

For the StackOverflow fans out there that can’t make their job without it, did you know you now have a StackOverflow Autocomplete?

Filip Hracek shows why the famous “Hello World” is a fallacy.

Doing tech talks or presenting code to an audience? Check spectacle code slide and rock on those presentations.

Goroutines shows how you can handle 10 million concurrent connections using Go.

We all want to write good code, that is our ultimate goal. Christian Mackeprang has some tips on how to reduce the cognitive load of your code.

Planning on stepping on distributed systems? Wait no more, this introduction to distributed systems should warm you up.

Fan of graphs? Elastic has added Graph to data visualisation plug-in Kibana, Voxxed has short and concise article about it.

This should never happen, a funny and curious thread on Hackernews.

Bored? Fan of GTA San Adreas? Check this funny San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam streaming.

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And that’s it for this week. Time to say goodbye and see you next week.

A bit late this week, Easter and holidays didn’t let me have that much free time. Here’s This Week in Dev issue number two.

Adam Bien has published another great video, The Overhead Of Java EE Application Servers.

Zero Turn Around has pulish another nice article on how to speed up your Maven builds. Meanwhile, you can also speed up your dependencies downloads.

Talking about dependencies and builds, check how one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript.

Still on the NPM, Kik debacle creates worst NPM mess ever.

Have you ever heard of Java 8 Optional? Here’s how to use it and say goodbye to those nasty null pointer exceptions.

What do you think about the JEP 286? Roy van Rijn explains the pros and cons of JEP 286.

Docker just announced they are in beta for Mac and Windows.

Lightbend (formerly known as Typesafe) is giving away a report about Reactive Microservices Architecture, by Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér. Register to get your.

And finally, tehcnology is moving at a speed never seen before. Check this awesome video: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos.

See you next week.

I’m starting a new challenge, maintain and blog (around) every weekend a curated list of links I’ve stumble upon during my work week. As I’m a JVM guy, this will be mostly related with Java development but there may be a few here and there links about general topics. So, today is #1.

Simon Ritter share his opinion about the current status of Java, Is Java Dead?

On Java 8, Javin Paul explains, with a practical example, how to get ArrayList from Stream in Java 8.

Adam Bien has some tips on how to be more productive with JavaEE and Docker.

Joe Armstrong shows one of the big strengths of Erlang, managing two million web servers.

Vamp is in canary-testing version, check this Voxxed interview about Vamp, The Microservices Platform Hedging its Bets on the Container Race.

Stackoverflow just release their Developer Survey Results 2016 with some interesting facts.

Michał Huniewicz visited North Korea and returned with a bunch of great pictures about his journey to get in North Korea and around Pyongyang.

See you next week.