A Java Geek weekly 48

Book review: API Design Patterns

If you only need to have one book on API Design, it’s this one.

Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform

An open source PAAS alternative to Heroku

Merchants of complexity

Brutal but true.

Containers: has the pendulum swung too far?

Very good transition from the previous DHH’s rant.

The post describes the problems that containers solved and the problems they create. It proceeds to describe two possible alternatives to containers: statically linked binaries and Nix.

A collection of Free Public APIs for Students and Developers

Tested every single day.

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract.

Elasticsearch is OpenSource, Again

What is not written is as important as what’s written. In particular, there’s no justification about the step back.

Comments on Reddit are enlightening: People who moved to OpenSearch won’t come back.

6 Must-Know JavaScript ES13 Features for Modern Development
  • Simplified Class Field Declarations
  • Private Methods and Fields
  • Top-Level Await
  • .at()
  • Error Cause
  • Regex Match Indices
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

It’s not only a grave security threat, the response from the TSA is far from professional.

Cloud : Thalès gagne un premier round judiciaire contre la société américaine Broadcom (VMWare)

If you don’t speak French, the TL;DR is that Thalès contracted with VMMare for Cloud services. After Broadcom acquired VMWare, it raised the price a lot. In law parlance, it’s abusing your dominant position.

The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

I find it interesting that people seem to rediscover the value of proven vs. hype.

Mastering Axios: A Technical Guide to Building Your Food Delivery App

I recently stumbled upon Axios when developing a comparison of different lightweight front-end frameworks. The post does a good job of explaining how to use it in developer-centric use cases.

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

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