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Wednesday Links - Edition 2020-06-24

Random values in Spring Boot properties ( 20 sec read ) πŸ”€
https://twitter.com/maciejwalkowiak/status/1274354330070548484

R2DBC in Spring 5.3 ( 20 sec read ) πŸ€–
https://twitter.com/sam_brannen/status/1273308552094941184

Why is it good practice to set -Xms along -Xmx java flag while using Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) collector? ( 8 min read ) 🎌
https://mskalski.dev/2020/05/xms_good_practice/

ImSter - Image Steganographer ( 2 min read ) πŸ–ΌοΈ
https://github.com/armytricks/ImSter

AdoptOpenJDK to Become Eclipse Adoptium ( 3 min read ) πŸŒ‘
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/adoptopenjdk-eclipse-adoptium/

Breaking the monolith... ( 15 sec read ) πŸ—Ώ
https://twitter.com/vincentdnl/status/1274009043569266688

Zoe: The missing companion for Kafka ( 1 min read ) πŸ§‘β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘
https://github.com/adevinta/zoe

Java Feature Spotlight: Sealed Classes ( 16 min read ) πŸ’Œ
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-sealed-classes/

JDK 15: The new features in Java 15 ( 3 min read ) πŸŽ‰
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3534133/jdk-15-the-new-features-in-java-15.html

JPMS impact on accessibility ( 2 min read ) πŸ”₯
http://blog.tremblay.pro/2020/06/jpms-and-accessibility.html

A new concurrent hash map ( 4 min read ) πŸš„
https://vmlens.com/articles/cp/computeIfAbsent_hashMap/

Distroless Containers: Hype or True Value? ( 10 min read ) 🚒
https://hackernoon.com/distroless-containers-hype-or-true-value-2rfl3wat

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