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

You're probably still not using lamdas to their full potential. I know I'm not.

A good, nuanced reference to an old problem – dependency management.

A deep-dive into tuples – what's not cool about that?

Further exploration of the new Boot support in Eclipse STS – specifically, dynamic redeploying changes.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

An interesting, critical look into the premises behind the microservice hype we've been experiencing as a community.

It's definitely important to understand that a microservice architecture doesn't fit everything; in practice, it makes sense for a lot less systems than it's actually used for.

One of the most significant advantages that I find in this style of architecture is not purely technical – it's the lighter conceptual load of the system. For a small to medium system with 10-20 developers working on it – that's not such a huge concern, but you really start seeing the upside once you get into over 100 developers working on the same codebase.

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

Good points about practical Agile.

Remote work is a subject that's near and dear to me, as that's my own approach to work and have been for years.

This writeup doesn't skimp on the details and really offers up a vision for the future of work that's definitely worth considering.

Also worth reading:

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

5. Pick of the Week

If you're not watching this, you're missing out: