marcobehler

Thanks, indeed a great one! Will put it in the article.

Didn't know that! Thank you, will update the post.

Yes, wholeheartedly agree. All other classic recommendations from this thread pale in comparison. Jay Wengrow did a fantastic job with this book.

Honest question: I'd really love to know what UTF-8 traps people fall into all the time when working on a consumer product with Java - especially given that Java basically stores all Strings in UTF-16 (well, starting with Java9+ there's some "optimizations" made, but still). I literally can count those issues on one hand in over a decade of working on such (multilingual) products.

I also completely fail to see what a CRUD app (i.e. java + db) + shooting REST requests to confluence has to do with your concurrency questions, as in interview != job fit, but that might have to do with some missing context.

Based on your review and the other replies in this thread I bought the book - I hate to say this, but, in my honest opinion, it was mostly a dull, arrogant and self-aggrandizing book. (Side-Note: I lost my mother at a somewhat young age to cancer and am no complete stranger to death and the process of dying).

How does it compare to commento.io ?

Because I find debating about the pro's and con's about microservices somewhat cumbersome, I tried to let the code speak and record a screencast series on exactly this topics. (https://www.marcobehler.com/series/9-microservices-the-good-... ) Because I feel that especially in the Java world, Microservices are an utter abomination most of the time. Comments more than welcome!