Wow, what a bumper month! Summer is well and truly over and we are Being Productive! This month's edition is absolutely huge and I didn't even do any particular research for the newsletter; there was just a lot of interesting stuff kicking around. Of course, we have Java 13, and I've added two new sections: career advice and testing. Not testing your career, although that would be really useful too. There are also a lot of Spring Boot tutorials because I've been leaning on Google a lot this month for my live coding demo for Spring One Platform in Austin next week. Set aside some serious time for this edition!
Java News
Java 13 came out in September. It’s another short-term release, but it does mean that if you were on Java 12 your JDK is no longer supported and you should upgrade to 13. If you’re on Java 11 or 8, watch my video (last link below) to understand some of the questions you should be asking in order to decide whether to upgrade,