Links & Reads – 2017 #5

Enjoy reading and exploring!

Long(er) reads:

• The Most Innovative Companies of 2017 by Sector
• Container orchestration primer: Explaining Docker swarm mode, Kubernetes and Mesosphere
• This Is How You Identify A-Players During An Interview
• These are the habits that mentally strong people rely on
• Pressure Doesn’t Have to Turn into Stress
• Papers that will actually make you a better programmer
• Google’s API Design Guide
• Three Attitudes that Lead to Maintainable Code

Java links:

• Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS (Part 1, Part 2)
• Thinking Serverless (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
• Building a Streaming Data Hub with Elasticsearch, Kafka and Cassandra
• Presentation: RxJava for the Rest of Us
• Testing RxJava2
• Storing and querying trillions of events
• Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink
• The Future of Java in the Enterprise
• Bootstrapping an OAuth2 Authorization server using UAA
• Spring Remoting with Hessian and Burlap

Swift links:

• Getting Started with Kitura and AngularJS
• Exploring Server-side Swift

Scala links:

• The myth of using Scala as a better Java
• Patterns for Streaming Measurement Data with Akka Streams

New releases:

• Gradle 3.4
• Kotlin 1.1
• Android Studio 2.3
• Vert.x 3.4.0

Nice stuff:

• Envoy – ‘an open source edge and service proxy, from the developers at Lyft’ (Related: Q&A with Matt Klein on Creating Envoy at Lyft)
• Netlify – ‘a CMS for Static Site Generators’
• s3lambda – ‘Lambda functions over S3 objects with concurrency control’

Links & Reads – 2017 #4

Enjoy reading and exploring!

Long(er) reads:

• Design Patterns for Deep Learning Architectures
• Google is Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise
• What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?
• Stop Checking Email So Often

Java links:

• Vert.x the perfect reactor for IoT devices
• Building Reactive Applications with Akka Actors and Java 8
• “In a way, Apache Beam is the glue that connects many big data systems together“
• Why Elvis Should Not Visit Java
• The JVM is not that heavy (HN discussion)
• Dealing with Backpressure with RxJava
• Working with Apache Thrift
• Java GC Causes Distilled
• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM on Android

JavaScript links:

• GitLab’s Big Frontend Plan Revealed
• React Native at Instagram
• 10 Reasons why I moved from Angular to React

New releases:

• TensorFlow 1.0.0 RC2
• Spring Boot 1.5.1
• JHipster 4.0.0
• Atom 1.14

Nice stuff:

• Hazelcast Jet – ‘a general purpose distributed data processing engine, built on top of Hazelcast’ (Code Samples)
• A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud Native Stack
• wuzz – ‘Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection’
• Lottie – ‘an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations’

Links & Reads – 2017 #3

Enjoy reading and exploring! 👓 📰

Long(er) reads:

• AWS in Plain English
• Kafka Ecosystem at LinkedIn
• How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Java links:

• The structure of Netty
• JDK 9 is Feature Complete!
• Spring Booted Camel Ride
• Spring Boot Security using Database
• Just enough code: WildFly Swarm MicroProfile

Go:

• Debugging Golang
• Rust vs. Go

JavaScript links:

• A Brief History of JavaScript
• A Brief History of JavaScript Standards
• Integrating RxJS with Vue.js

New releases:

• Kotlin 1.1 Beta
• etcd 3.1

Nice stuff:

• dep – ‘a prototype dependency management tool’ for Go
• spring-data-examples – ‘Spring Data Example Projects’
• resteasy-spring-boot – ‘RESTEasy Spring Boot Starter’ by PayPal
• mitt – ‘tiny 200b functional event emitter / pubsub’ in JavaScript
• cloudboost – ‘the Complete NoSQL Database Service for your app’

Links & Reads – 2017 #2

🔖 📑 Enjoy reading and exploring! 🔖 📑

Long(er) reads:

• Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
• Wouldn’t It Be Nice If Everyone Knew A Little Queuing Theory?
• The VR Landscape: A Medium In Review

Java links:

• Writing Spring Boot Microservices To Access Hive (GH repo)
• Spring Boot and OAuth2 with Keycloak
• Apache Camel Spring Cloud Stream (GH repo)
• Messaging With Spring AMQP

JavaScript links:

• Improving the State of your App with Redux
• 2016 JavaScript Rising Stars

New releases:

• Tokio 0.1 – ‘a platform for writing fast networking code in Rust’

Nice stuff:

• Eta – ‘a pure, lazy, strongly typed functional programming language on the JVM’ (HN discussion)
• git-quick-stats – ‘a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository’
• angular_bootstrap_spring – a sample app built in ‘Angular JS with Bootstrap and Spring 4 and Spring Security’
• Awesome-APIs – ‘a curated list of APIs from round the web’
• oklog – ‘A distributed and coördination-free log management system’

Links & Reads – 2017 #1

Enjoy reading and exploring! After a break, here’s the first one for 2017!

Long(er) reads:

• Chaos Engineering
• Why Recursive Data Structures?
• How Terrible Code Gets Written by Perfectly Sane People

Java links:

• Refactoring Towards Expressive REST APIs: Let Your Code Be Your Guide
• 20 Spring Framework Best Practices
• Java SE 8, 9 and Beyond [Slides]
• Introduction to Spring Reactor

JavaScript links:

• Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript

Kotlin links:

• Introducing Kotlin support in Spring Framework 5.0
• Kotlin: Ready for Production

New releases:

• lichess 1.0 – ‘the forever free, adless and open source chess server’ with a Scala back-end

Nice stuff:

• Zazu – ‘A fully extensible and open source launcher for hackers, creators and dabblers’
• Inferno – ‘An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces’ (Related: Introducing Inferno 1.0)
• Klipse – ‘A simple client-side code evaluator pluggable on any web page’
• alacritty – ‘A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator’
• javaslang-circuitbreaker – ” (Related: A javaslang-circuitbreaker Spring Boot demo)

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 53

Enjoy reading and exploring! Last one of 2015..

Reads:

• Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow
• WebSockets, caution required!

Distributed Systems:

• Mesos: Design Documents of Mesos

Java:

• Springboot example with REST and MySQL
• Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity

Groovy:

• Ratpack 101
• Groovy with Style!

Clojure:

• 2015 Year In Review

Go:

• Glow: Map Reduce for Golang
• Generic event emitter/dispatcher in Go

New releases:

• Solus 1.0 release

Nice stuff:

• Moonscript – ‘a language that compiles to Lua’
• tldr – ‘Simplified and community-driven man pages’
• lattice-ratpack – ‘A sample ratpack app for lattice’
• awesome-java8 – ‘Curated list of useful, if not amazing, resources that take advantage of Java 8 and “Modern Java” thinking

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 52

Enjoy reading and exploring!

Reads:

• What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
• The success habit I wish I knew 18 years ago
• Calming Your Brain During Conflict
• Literate SQL
• Postgres 9.5 – the Feature Rundown
• What web developers should know about SSL but probably don’t.
• 12 Fractured Apps
• Open letter to Mozilla: Bring back Persona

Java:

• Top 10 Java EE 7 Backend Features
• An Easy Way to Secure Java Applications
• Architecting Android
• Guava 18: What’s New?
• 3 Disasters Which I Solved With JProfiler

Go:

• Book: The Go Programming Language

Nice stuff:

• Lektor – ‘A Static File Content Management System For Python’
• Booktype – ‘a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes’
• Hasklig – ‘a code font with monospaced ligatures’
• Katacoda – an interactive learning platform
• replumb – ‘a plumbing library for your self-hosted ClojureScript Read-Eval-Print-Loops’