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Must Read Resources for Java Developers

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Legends

• 📹 — Video talk
• 📰 — Text article
• 📖 — Book​

Algorithms and Data Structure

1. 📰 Big O Cheatsheet - Link

Java

1. 📹 Computer programming: What is object-oriented language? - Link
2. 📰 I Finally Understand Static vs. Dynamic Typing and You Will Too! - Link
3. 📰 Naming a Package - Link
4. 📹 42 IntelliJ IDEA Tips and Tricks - Link
5. 📰 How and why to override the equals method in Java - Link
6. 📰 Java Generics FAQs by Angelika Langer - Link
7. 📖 Effective Java: Chapter 5: Generics
8. 📹 Java Generics: Past, Present and Future by Richard Warburton/Raoul-Gabriel Urma - Link
9. 📖 Effective Java: Chapter 10: Exceptions
10. 📖 Effective Java Summary - Link
11. 📖 Clean Code Summary - Link
12. 📹 Get a Taste of Lambdas and Get Addicted to Streams - Link
13. 📰 Java 8: The Missing Tutorial - Link
14. 📰 Asynchronous programming with Java 8 - Link
15. 📰 A Real-world Introduction to Finding classes in Object-oriented Programming Languages - Link
16. 📰 Learning Generics by Understanding signature of Collections.copy() method - Link

TDD and Automation Testing

1. 📰 Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) - Link

2. 📰 Unit Tests Are FIRST - Link

3. 📹 The Clean Code Talks -- Unit Testing - Link

4. 📹 Test-driven development: Write better code in less time - Link

5. 📰 Mocks Aren't Stubs - Link

6. 📰 5 step method to make test-driven development and unit testing easy - Link

7. 📰 Unit Testing — AAA pattern - Link

Software Design

1. 📹 Core Design Principles for Software Developers - Link
2. 📹 The Power and Practicality of Immutability - Link
3. 📹 Code Refactoring - Link
4. 📹 SOLID Principles - Link
5. 📹 Design Patterns - Link
6. 📰Fluent Interface - Link
7. 📰 Fluent Builder Pattern with a real-world example - Link

Database

1. 📰 Database Isolation Levels And Their Effects On Performance And Scalability - Link
2. 📰 CAP Theorem: Revisited - Link
3. 📰 ACID vs. BASE Explained - Link
4. 📰 Introduction to Database Design - Link
5. 📰 A beginners guide to SQL - Link
6. 📰 How Sharding Works - Link

REST API Design

1. 📹 APIs for Beginners - How to use an API - Link
2. 📰 Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API - Link
3. 📰 REST API Error Codes 101 - Link
4. 📰 REST with Spring Tutorial - Link

Spring Framework

1. 📰 Spring Tutorial - Link​
2. 📰 Spring Persistence Tutorial - Link
3. 📰 Security with Spring - Link

Scalability

1. 📰 Scale-up or Scale-out, What it is and why you should care - Link
2. 📰 Best Practices For Horizontal Application Scaling - Link

Architecture

1. 📰 Monoliths and Microservices - Link
2. 📰 12 Factor Applications - Link
3. 📰 Three-tier architecture - Link
4. 📰 What is DNS? - Link
5. 📰 Content delivery network - Link
6. 📰 A Minimalistic Guide to Building and Deploying Monolithic Spring Boot React Applications - Link

DevOps and Cloud

1. 📰 A general introduction to build tools - Link
2. 📰 Continuous Integration - Link
3. 📹 Docker for Developers - Link
4. 📹 Docker Tutorial for Beginners - A Full DevOps Course on How to Run Applications in Containers - Link
5. 📹 DevOps Introduction - Link
6. 📰 Git: The Missing Tutorial - Link
7. 📹 AWS Concepts - Link
8. 📰 The Kubernetes Guide For Java Developers: Learn Kubernetes by deploying a real-world application on it - Link
9. 📰 Continuous Integration for Junior Software Engineers - Link

Agile Software Development

1. 📰 Extreme programming - Link