Wednesday Links - Edition 2021-01-06

Mockito and JDK 16 (45 sec read) 🍹
https://twitter.com/MockitoJava/status/1345281603174543361

HexFormat in JDK 16 (3 min read) 🔣
https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk17/docs/api/java.base/java/util/HexFormat.html

Don't use Protobuf for Telemetry (10 min read) 📞
https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/dont-use-protobuf-for-telemetry

Spring Boot Best Practices for Microservices (10 min read) 🦭
https://piotrminkowski.com/2019/12/06/spring-boot-best-practices-for-microservices

Investigating MD5 overheads (12 min read) #️⃣
https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html

The Problem with Gradle (13 min read) 💭
https://www.bruceeckel.com/2021/01/02/the-problem-with-gradle

Do Loom’s Claims Stack Up? Part 1: Millions of Threads? (8 min read) ↗️
https://webtide.com/do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.1 Is Out With Apple Silicon Support (1 min read) 🍏
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3-1/