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.

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

Optimize performance with end-to-end tracing and out-of-the-box support for most Java frameworks, application servers, and, of course, databases. Try out the tool.

A sneak peek at an early access build of the jpackage tool from the OpenJDK community, set to be released with JDK 13. Very cool.

The first installment in a new series that aims to provide a deeper look into Reactor's advanced concepts and inner workings.

If you build REST APIs contract-first, but without code generation, you'll want to check out this new library for verifying the structural correctness of your REST API implementation, according to your OpenAPI 3.0 or WADL specification.

A quick, under-the-covers comparison of JPA and Hibernate persistence operations reveals the best approach for common use cases.

And a follow-up to last week's tutorial on remote debugging TomEE apps with Eclipse, this time for IntelliJ users.

A detailed, updated look at how Java is still very much free today.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical and Musings

A survey of various ways to gain insight into your business processes via workflow monitoring.

And a clever git command for handling merges after a formatting policy change.

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

4. Pick of the Week