(Henn Idan) 2018 is already here, and while it’s been less than a month we can already see interesting trends and features that are about to change the way we write code. That’s why it’s time to look back at 2017 and see which trends are here to stay, and which ones we should keep our eyes on.

(Matt Scarpino) My previous article explained how to access corporate reports in the EDGAR database, but it didn’t explain how to extract data from a report.

(Ben Hale and Paul Harris) In the last couple of years there’s been a strong push towards reactive programming in the Java world.

(Shweta Lodha) Recently, I got a requirement to generate an XML on the fly with some defined schema. I know this requirement looks very simple at first sight, but actually, it was not.

(Javin Paul) Want to start the year off right? Here is a range of topics you can tackle to make yourself a better Java dev from performance tuning to Spring Security 5.0.

(Philipp_Engelmann) In the last part, we set up a simple todo-API using Flask and Redis. We managed to dockerize both Redis and Flask, so starting the backend of our application is as easy as running docker-compose up.

(Buhake Sindi) The proper deployment of Java applications can be a cumbersome and tedious process, and the risk of failure is never higher than it is right after deployment. Errors during/after deployment not only impact IT development and operations of the organization, but also the business itself

(Jeff Friesen) While learning Java, you’ll occasionally encounter a language behavior that leaves you puzzled. For example, what does expression new int[10] instanceof Object returning true signify about arrays? In this post, I’ll examine some of Java’s language oddities.

(Dustin Marx) Java 8‘s introduction of streams and useful static/default methods on the Comparator interface make it easy to compare two objects based on individual fields’ values without need to implement a compare(T,T) method on the class whose objects are being compared.

(Philipp_Engelmann) How to set up and deploy web applications using Flask and Redis on the Backend, and ReactJS on the Frontend. Using Docker Compose, it will be very easy to start, debug and deploy this application.