Week 14 and 15 in links!

Welcome to the next installment of Codeleak.pl: Week Review!, which became bi-weekly (so new name should apply...) I want to share with you some interesting reads that I encountered within last two weeks. A very subjective selection.

1. Spring Loaded is a JVM agent for reloading class file changes whilst a JVM is running. An open-source competition for JRebel or just an alternative? Anyways, if you want to see how it works in practice watch this demo: Spring Boot, Spring Loaded and Spring Tool Suite in 4 minutes.

   Spring Boot, Spring Loaded and Spring Tool Suite in 4 minutes

2. Last I have been experimenting with Spring Boot. Have a look at reference documentation.

   http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/

3. Optional: A new Option in Java. The main point behind Optional is to wrap an Object and to provide convenience API to handle nullability in a fluent manner.

   http://jaxenter.com/optional-will-remain-an-option-in-java.1-49918.html/

4. Does Agile matters more than Scrum? Really nice movie about engineering culture at Spotify.

   http://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/

5. And the similar to the above, but regarding Facebook: How Facebook Builds Facebook.

   http://vimeo.com/51325966

6. I have been experimenting a lot with Java and Windows Azure recently. The last addition to Azure was Java-based web sites on Azure Web Sites. You can deploy and scale Java applications running on Tomcat quite easily.

   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/04/04/java-on-azure-web-sites.aspx

7. Want to know more about Java on Azure?

   http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/java//