Link Dump #58

Do you know this great moment when the coffee is warm and good articles are waiting to be read?

1. #BookOfTheWeek: Building Evolutionary Architectures
   
   
2. Software Architecture
   1. Demystifying software architecture patterns #PickOfTheWeek
      What are the differences and similarities between Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Onion Architecture?
   2. The Whats and Hows of APIs #PickOfTheWeek
      The article explains what APIs are and the different types that exist. You’ll learn how they work and how you can use them.
3. Software Development
   1. Shifting Focus Beyond the Backlog to Prioritizing Customer Needs #PickOfTheWeek
      Without a focus on customers teams are more focused on completing tickets and less on understanding the needs of the customers or the value they added.
   2. How to use low-code tools effectively in your organization
      Low code has been discussed as an alternative to traditional development processes and practices. But decision-makers need to understand its constraints and build appropriate guardrails around application development.
   3. LinkedIn’s GraphQL journey for integrations and partnerships
      How to build a best-in-class API platform that is easy to use, efficient, and easy for our customers to operate?
4. Testing
   1. Test Orchestration: What, Why, and How?
      In the article you will go over a walkthrough of the test orchestration pipeline’s finer points and look at how you can reimagine the process.
   2. JMeter: Latency vs. Load Time
      How the metrics are defined, what distinguishes them from each other, and how to measure them with the performance tool JMeter.
5. Java, Frameworks and Libraries
   1. 6 Performance Pitfalls when using Spring Data JPA #PickOfTheWeek
      In the article, you will find the 6 most common performance pitfalls when using Spring Data JPA and how to avoid them.
   2. What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.3
      The blog post highlights some of the more prominent features of Kafka 3.3.
   3. What’s New in Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3
      Spring Framework 6 is the major version change and carries many high-impacting features, changes and upgrades into the Spring development ecosystem. Spring boot 3 also changes a lot of things we need to take care of during the application development in the future.
   4. Java on-ramp - Fully defined Entrypoints
      How do you start a Java program? With a main method of course. There has been a bit of discussion recently about how the "on-ramp" for Java could be made easier.
6. Leadership
   1. It’s Not Your People
      "The successful companies are those that get extraordinary results from ordinary people.”
   2. Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches 
      More and more executives are realizing that a successful leader must be a good coach. But what do good coaches do?
   3. Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong? #PickOfTheWeek
      In choppy economic waters, new data points to three urgent pivots for leaders to help employees and organizations thrive.
   4. How to give and receive criticism
      Criticism can elevate both those giving the critiques and those receiving them.
7. Fun
   1. AI Care

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