A Java Geek weekly 37

An elaborate rant about optional types, which don’t guarantee that a value of this type is not null.

When the only maintainer of an Open Source project leaves, it generally spells the doom of the said project. I hope Vavr will be an exception.

A solid overview through Service, Ingress, and GatewayAPI by Viktor Farcic.

I believe it’s a very interesting idea!

Fun idea for nostalgic fans. Do you remember?

It seems that DucksDB pops up more and more in my feed.

Ouch! Some accounts are going to feel that.

It’s unexpected. I wonder what drove such a move, besides the points written in the post.

Clean Code has been beneficial a long time ago, to make people think about their code.

However, every Clean Code practitioner I’ve worked with was mostly a rabid follower of the book and ended up every conversation with "because it’s Clean Code", without even mentioning why it’s Clean. Nowadays, I think that the book should be thrown away in favor of more enlightened discussion over improved readability, taking into account contextual information, such as the team, etc. In one word, prefer engineering work over dogma.

Beyond the focus on Postgres, I think the talk is a good overview on how to grow an ecosystem around a product.

The Spring Boot team is definitely one of the most productive teams I know of!