Including The Best of the JDK Face-Off, Java Magazine 2020 May, Free eBooks from Springer, Spring Boot 2.3, Raspberry Pi 4 and more.

The Best of the JDK Face-Off

We’re excited to kick off the Best of the JDK Feature Face-Off! We’ll be posting matchups below and letting you vote for your favorite JDK features. Let’s get started with Round 1. #MovedbyJava

And if you want to read up on more info, check our blog: https://t.co/Z4lJlv2dBD pic.twitter.com/SoKIt0Qopc

— Java (@java) May 26, 2020

In the coming weeks, via the Java team’s Twitter @Java account, you will see matchups of key features laid out in four different brackets:

• Languages
• Libraries
• Tooling
• Runtime You’ll have the opportunity to cast your vote via a Twitter poll that will run 24 hours for each posted matchup. Each progressive day will offer a new matchup until there are only two finalists to face off against each other. This competition will run socially over @Java through the next several weeks until there’s one feature left standing!

JChoice

Choose an OpenJDK distribution: http://www.jchoice.eu/ (archive)

Java Magazine 2020 May

Java Magazine 2020 May is out.

Java WAT

Just to give equal time to Java, #WAT? pic.twitter.com/SXOjE9EmqA

— Joshua Bloch (@joshbloch) May 21, 2020

If you don’t know what does WAT mean, check out this lightning talk: Wat by Gary Bernhardt.

Here are a few more WATs (JavaScript): Twet deleted, it was originally here: https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1234536343478423552

JavaScript again:

#javascript quiz 🏆

What will be the output of this code?#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie pic.twitter.com/Aymb1p5OzF

— Ravin (@ravinwashere) May 29, 2020

Or this one is in bash: Take care editing bash scripts

Free eBooks from Springer

Springer just made 400+ textbooks free to download, including CS books on Python, deep learning, data science & AI.

Full list: https://t.co/Ny9NWjPeB1#MondayMotivation #ML #DeepLearning #AI #CS #BigData #Python #Scala #TensorFlow #Programming #Coding pic.twitter.com/0XQ0m5j0qR

— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) May 4, 2020

JNation 2020

JNation 2020 is a free onine conference with pretty solid schedule.

Cloudflare Speed Test

With speed.cloudflare.com you can measure the speed and also the consistency of your connection. The tests run on the Cloudflare network so probably you can test against a data-center that is close to you.

Stalk Studio

Stalk Studio is a trace analysis tool for Jaeger and Zipkin, check out the features.

Spring Boot 2.3

Spring Boot 2.3 was released a few weeks ago with some pretty great features:

• Java 14 support and updated dependencies
• Awesome Docker support
• Liveness and Readiness Probes
• Better Graceful Shutdown Support

Check out the Release Notes

I love the new @SpringBoot 2.3 release. It's hard to pick any single thing or theme, but I love the features that make my software even more relevant on @kubernetesio and in the cloud.

Here's a list of some of the features I love...

— Josh Long (@starbuxman) May 20, 2020

Developer Culture Test

The Pragmatic Engineer’s Developer Culture Test

Raspberry Pi 4

Raspberry Pi 4 was released, check out the specs:

• Quad core ARM v8 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
• 2GB, 4GB or 8GB RAM
• WiFi: 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz 802.11ac; Bluetooth: 5.0, BLE
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 2 USB 3.0 ports; 2 USB 2.0 ports.
• 40 pin GPIO header
• 2 micro-HDMI ports
• DSI display port, CSI camera port
• 4-pole stereo audio and composite video port

The Day AppGet Died

The story of how Microsoft embraced and then killed AppGet

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020

Nearly 65,000 took Stack Overflow’s annual survey.

A Quarter of a Century of Java

A Quarter of a Century of Java by Simon Ritter