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Wednesday Links - Edition 2021-03-17

Java 16 / JDK 16: General Availability (1 min read) ✨
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2021-March/000295.html

Java 16 and IntelliJ IDEA (19 min) 🎀
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2021/03/java-16-and-intellij-idea/

JDK 16 G1/Parallel GC changes (5 min read) 🗑️
https://tschatzl.github.io/2021/03/12/jdk16-g1-parallel-gc-changes.html

Don't use (Kotlin data class / Lombok Data ) as JPA Entity (30 sec read) ⛔
https://twitter.com/piotr_minkowski/status/1371758745387212805

You can't afford to run Java 8 (5 min read) 💰
https://mikemybytes.com/2021/03/16/you-cant-afford-to-run-java-8

Free Up System Resources For Faster Gradle Build (6 min read) 🦅
https://goobar.io/free-up-system-resources-for-faster-gradle-builds/

Kotlin compiler crash course (2 min read) 💥
https://github.com/ahinchman1/Kotlin-Compiler-Crash-Course

Backpressure in Reactive Systems (3 min read) 🤚
https://blog.frankel.ch/backpressure-reactive-systems/

Oracle R2DBC (4 min read) 🎉
https://github.com/oracle/oracle-r2dbc

Announcing Spring Native Beta (7 min read) 🎉
https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-beta

if-else-switch (4 min read) 🥢
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/03/06/ifElseSwitch.html

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