In the 9 years of running Baeldung, we've never been through anything like this pandemic

And, if making my courses more affordable for a while is going to help you stay in business, land a new job, make rent or be able to provide for your family - then it's well worth doing.

Effective immediately, all Baeldung courses are 33% off their normal prices!

You'll find all three courses in the menu, above.

In the 9 years of running Baeldung, we've never been through anything like this pandemic

And, if making my courses more affordable for a while is going to help you stay in business, land a new job, make rent or be able to provide for your family - then it's well worth doing.

Effective immediately, all Baeldung courses are 33% off their normal prices!

You'll find all three courses in the menu, above.

At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven't missed a review since.

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

A very good intro – nay – the reference intro to what's going to be the Java module system. Good stuff.

Here's a quick outside look at the module system as well.

>> Stream Performance [codefx.org]

Very interesting data on stream performance, and depending on the performance goals of your system, maybe actionable data as well.

Good things come to those who use Java 8 streams, but only the things left behind by those who use Clojure.

A myriad of improvements in this release; I'm most excited about the new Querydsl web support and the HAL browser – these look highly useful.

Introducing both CQRS and Event Sourcing in a single piece is not easy, but this definitely is a good initial writeup in what I'm hoping is going to be a long series.

A solid set of basic metrics that you really do need to always track, but even more so after putting a major release into production.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

Another clustering solution that looks decent but ultimately doesn't hold water yet.

Long but very interesting read on anther, much less talked about aspect of microservices – team productivity.

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

The classical knowledge quadrant, as it applies to the technical field and growing as an architect.

Also worth reading:

4. Comics

And my favorite comics of the week:

5. Pick of the Week

Earlier this year I introduced the “Pick of the Week” section here in my “Weekly Review”. If you’re already on my email list – you got the pick already – hope you enjoyed it.

I'm doing a social media push for this weeks review.

If you've been enjoying the reviews coming in on Friday for the past year and a half, I'd really appreciate you taking the time to share this particular review on social:

Of course, just vote the one where you're actually active and have an account.