First installment of 2019. Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

A quick look at one author's predictions for this year comes with no real surprises, as Java's position and momentum within the industry is expected to remain solid.

An overview to EBAC for fine-grained access control, with a few examples using Spring Security. Cool beans.

And a good introduction to Hibernate's @TypeDef annotation from the hibernate-types project for mapping array column types.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

2. Technical and Musings

As the series continues, we learn how to configure a VPC with a varying number of subnets.

A nice collection of strategies to help you achieve the right balance of technology changes for your business.

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

4. Pick of the Week