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. Java and Spring

Jenkins can be quick and easy. Jenkins done right however, can be quite powerful at scale, paired with the right tools.

An quick look at Controllers in Java EE 8. I've been covering a lot of Spring, so this might be an interesting change of scenery.

A quick exploration of the new transactional support that comes along with the new event support in Spring 4.2 – good stuff.

A cool new Spring Boot dashboard in Eclipse STS – makes working with microservices a whole lot easier.

A practical, end to end process of running a Boot app over on Heroku.

Code coverage is such an imperfect metric (to put it kindly). To go beyond it is definitely worthwhile – and makes sense to evaluate, provided you have the basic stuff dialed in already.

Some solid practical tips on using Hibernate for an Event Sourced system.

Also worth reading:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical

A solid intro to JMeter.

I've personally been using Gatling more and more lately, but JMeter is still a go to tool that I recommend and use.

Reading the official IETF specs well is more of an art than a science; here are some very good tips helping out.

Also worth reading:

3. Musings

Good notes around the thorny problem of moving the voting system to the web.

Who would have thought? Doing the dishes and coding are actually similar. And someone else out there has stolen my dish-washing technique.

What he said.

Also worth reading:

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

5. Pick of the Week