Weekend Reading List #47 – Week of 11/16

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NYJavaSIG event

The next NYJavaSIG event will happen on December 15th and the topic is Evolving to Cloud Native. Stay tuned for updates.  

Loom

If you missed the event and Q&A with the project lead  Ron Pressler please go check it out at the NYJavaSIG Youtube channel  

CompletableFutures

Matthew Gilliard wrote a nice article on how you can leverage CompletableFutures to make asynchronous API requests.  

Records

Nice write up about Records from Sirisha Pratha

 

OpenJDK

Seven ways to contribute to OpenJDK from Kevin Farnham has the steps you need to start contributing to one of the most important projects, the OpenJDK.  

Books, books, books

7 books that every Java developer should read by Rafael Del Nero