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!

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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 solid, to the point write-up on passing date information to a Spring controller.

The new event infrastructure in Spring 4.2 is way cool – I've been using it since it made it into the first milestone and I've never implemented ApplicationListener since 🙂

A strong installment of the Spring Data REST Series this week, looking at versioning and conditional operations in HTTP.

This series is getting better and better.

Some interesting, advanced usecases of working with properties in Spring.

Looks like G1 is finally going to be the default – no more switching to it manually. That being said – I've had a few instances (very few) where G1 wasn't the best option, so it's always important to test these kind of low level changes.

Getting our log data into an ELK instance is oh-so important. It opens up a lot of insights into what's happening with the system, especially if we're talking about a widely distributed system (which I am).

So – have a look at this one, copy the parts that match your scenario, stand up a small ELK instance and get your log data into it.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

This is a series I'm following with a lot of interest. Event Sourcing isn't a good fit for every system, but where it does fit, it's an order of magnitude architectural improvement over a traditional approach.

As I do more and more microservice work – I found this piece quite insightful and anchored in the day to day reality of getting a system deployed.

The mythical chaos monkey Netflix unleashed a few years ago is growing up.

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

Building a remote-first workplace is tough, but it can be done and done well. Times, they are a changin.

A fun read about estimations and an interesting proposal to solve it. Not sure if it would actually work, but I would definitely be fun to try.

Also worth reading:

4. Comics

And my favorite comics of the week:

5. Pick of the Week

After an intensive week of recording, I just launched the Starter Class of “REST With Spring”:

It feels good to stop calling it “upcoming”.