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

The Java EE story unfolding.

The official announcement of the very first milestone of JUnit 5. Good stuff – it looks like it's time to give this one a real try.

And speaking of the first milestone of JUnit 5, Nicolai is of course continuing to explore the very cool aspects of JUnit. This one is about the concept of a dynamic test, which can potentially be quite powerful.

A quick overview of machine learning in the Java ecosystem. It's a bit of a shame that Mahout has been abandoned in this space, as it was showing some promise a few years back.

Solid intro to setting up the Robot Framework with a new Jenkins 2.0 server from scratch. Definitely one to bookmark for if/when you have to do that.

DB connection leaks are never fun and almost never easy to find and solve. This is a good introduction to how you may handle that.

A fun an interesting idea – having a look at a few of the top questions about Java on StackOverflow.

Some of these brought me right back to the Operating Systems course in college 🙂

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical and Musings

Another deep analysis of a persistence solution that doesn't quite do what it advertises yet, but is on the right track to getting there.

These kinds of in-depth dives into the low level problems of a persistence implementation are priceless to really learn about the mindset, the approach and the practical way of looking things when it comes to persistence.

Some thoughts about REST in the ecosystem today.

This piece is both a bit sad and a bit encouraging.

Organizations do inherently run into well-understood issues with scale, but it's still so very rare to find an organization that is successfully navigating these issues and not just patching them up.

Advice worth reading even if you're not planning to do test automation full time but simply in parallel to your day to day work.

Continuing the discussion, this piece has a look at the benefits and reasoning behind a Serverless architecture.

And the quarterly inside look at the numbers of baeldung.com is out.

If you didn't know, I publish this report regularly giving curious readers an inside look into how the site is doing.

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

4. Pick of the Week