Java 9 is packed with lot of new features aimed at improving developer experience and at improving Java applications. Apart from the widely talked about Jigsaw, Java 9 also features the Multi-Release JAR files for ensuring backwards compatibility while upgrading, decreased memory consumption through Compact String, Java 9 REPL- JShell, …
This talk explores how high performance organizations like Ticketmaster, Alibaba, and Netflix make short work of Cloud native Java complexity with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Work takes time to flow through an organization and ultimately be deployed to production where it captures value. It’s critical to reduce time-to-production. Software …
What’s NOT new in Modular Java? With Java 9 and Jigsaw project around the corner, we finally need to stop pretending we can simply ignore the concept of modularity in Java! The thing is – modularity is NOT just some new framework! Neither it is a simple set of APIs! …
A new sprint starts and you have to implement a new feature, you naively open the file where the functionality ought to live. To your great horror, a five headed monster seats there scaring the hell out of any developer trying to change that file. You know the time has …
Java allows us to bypass language security and peek directly into the contents of objects, calling methods and even constructing them. Usually this is fraught with danger. It binds you to a particular Java version, blocking your upgrade path. Dangerous. That said, I use reflection a lot as a tool …
Java has turned 20, but we still haven’t figured out how to create great Java code. Of course, we have examples of great developers and great code, but shouldn’t it be something common rather than unusual? We’ve seen Domain-Driven Design, Effective Java, Clean Code, Refactoring, Design Patterns….
