Episode 64. Oh it’s time to re-boot Spring in Spring!
You heard about it, and you are probably using it already. It is the Spring framework that took over the Web (Spring Boot!). But what makes it so special? and what lurks under the covers? How did it became a thing and what is it really trying to accomplish? Come take a listen with our...
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Episode 63. JCR (Java Content Repository) It as a Document Database before Document Databases were cool!
The Java Content Repository (JSR-170 and JSR-283) have been around for a while. For those who don’t know it’s an actual way of managing content (or assets, or text, or images, or a catalog). Its use can be almost anything, and yet, we didn’t know we had it! The best part? It’s a JSR so...
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Episode 62. Hm, what’s the best to travel this holiday? on Apache CAMEL, of course!
So let’s talk about one of (if not the) largest, and most interesting framework hosted at Apache. Camel is essentially an implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) book (which is a mandatory read for the serious dev!). It has so many contributions (and connections) that there is almost no popular system that it can’t...
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Episode 61. Let’s go retro with JaxB/Xml/XSD and Soap! (JSR-222)
It’s not the “cool kid” anymore, but it sure is everywhere! If you ever generated an xml file from a java class (or have created a java class from a definition) you have been using Jaxb! And if you have used for some time, you can see that Jaxb sometimes works, and other times…well. Come...
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Episode 60. All your Containers Are Belong to Us (An intro to Docker)
So you have heard about it, and probably ran into it already. Docker is a super cool tech that let us create / manage and deploy applications (It is really what would come out if Devs and Ops decided to have a kid). Come hear how you can too master the art of Docker, and...
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Episode 59. A Ghostbuster Reboot? Time to talk about those streams again!
Yeah, today Streams might seem like old news, but you know what? It’s worth revisiting and discovering what we didn’t know from before. In this episode, Bob, Michael, and I come back to revisit Streams and share what was good, bad (and evil) of them. Including some great trivia on default implementations (a weird Java...
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Episode 58. Hey! You gotta give some REST to those Microservices!
So REST is just a webpage that returns JSON right? Well, no! Apparently I’ve been doing REST All wrong! It’s much more rich and complete than what we are led to believe. Come join us with Bob Paulin as we talk the real Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our cool new NewsCast! Java Off...
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Episode 57. Sometimes you want to buy local, ThreadLocal that is!
Threadlocal is great! It can help you get out of sticky situations, and give you a great boost of performance and/or isolation. But with great tools comes great responsibility. Threadlocal can also be misused, and create memory leaks, or object corruption, and unknown sharing. So if you ever had seen one and never quite got...
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Episode 56. Let’s have a frank talk about Unsafe! and why you shouldn’t (or should) use it
So you heard about sun.misc.unsafe. Even if you are in certain circles you might have heard about that it was (almost) removed from Java 9. And if you were really paying attention you would’ve heard the cries of every major Java Framework to the news. While it didn’t happen (Unsafe is still in Java 9,...
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Episode 55. Let’s get GIT-it With it!
Source Control, it’s one of those tools that professionally we MUST need to master. In today’s episode we cover one of the “hottest” source control system out there (Git). Created by Linus Torvals, it’s quirky and weird when coming from Subversion (or gosh forbid, Visual Sourcesafe). But not to worry, if you have always been...
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