[Digest] Java, Kotlin, Spring, Cloud, and More - Episode 10 & 11

Hey folks, with a lot of stuff happening around in both work and personal life, I sometimes forget to actually post articles even when they are (almost) ready. So here are two missed ones from two previous weeks. Hope you'll find it useful.

🌱 Spring Boot Annotations: Behind the Scenes and the Self-Invocation Problem: a nice post on the proxy in Spring and what you should remember when using different annotations.

💾 A beginner’s guide to Hibernate Statistics: what is Hibernate statistics for and how to turn it on.

🐘 Gradle 8.3 Release Notes: Gradle 8.3 is released. It promises faster compilation and less memory consumption which may be important for large projects, such as Android.

🌏 OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform: HashiCorp changed the license for Terraform, and here is the community's response.

✉️ Kafka is dead, long live Kafka: WarpStream is a Kafka alternative built on top of S3. It is in developer preview and not ready for production yet, but still interesting to follow.

⚙️ Should That Be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind: the author suggests 6 criteria to find out if some functionality should be extracted into a microservice on its own.

🌱 This is the Beginning of the End of the N+1 Problem: Introducing Single Query Loading: Spring Data JDBC will provide an ability to load arbitrary aggregates with nested collections with a single select statement.

🌱 What's New in Spring Framework 6.x: Spring 6.1 has a full support of Virtual Threads and JDK 21.

🧭 Resize CPU Limit To Speed Up Java Startup on Kubernetes: how to make Java application start faster in Kubernetes using vertical CPU scaling on start.

☕️ How Tiered Compilation works in OpenJDK: if you always wanted to know what is HotSpot, JIT compiler, and Tiered Compilation in JDK (but were afraid to ask), then this post is for you.

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