Project Loom, GraphQL Mutations, and a very special Birthday!
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In this edition of "Dan Rambles About What He's Been Up To," I want to talk about Project Loom, GraphQL Mutations, and a very special birthday.
Project Loom & Virtual Threads
Last week, I spent a lot of time catching up on Project Loom and Virtual Threads. I wanted to give them a test drive in a Spring Boot application for a demo I am putting together. Before discussing the benefits of embracing virtual threads in a Spring application, it's important to provide some context about what they are and why they are needed.
I shared a graphic on Twitter which, as of writing this newsletter, has over 55,000 views. This is amazing and indicates a high level of interest in this topic. Based on feedback, many people have questions about what Project Loom is and what problems it will solve for Spring developers. I hope to answer these and other questions in the near future.
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out and let me know.
GraphQL Mutations
If you follow me, you know I am a huge fan of GraphQL. If you're interested in getting started with GraphQL, I have a ton of resources on my blog and YouTube channel. However, I don't have much content on mutations in GraphQL, so I decided to change that.
If you aren't aware, there are three main operation types in GraphQL: query, mutation, and subscription. A mutation is used any time you want to change data, such as creating, updating, or deleting a record. In this tutorial, I will show you a few examples of how to create a new resource using a mutation. I will walk you through using simple scalar types, such as strings, a complex object type, and a way to bulk create using a List. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and if you had questions about mutations I hope I answered them.
Happy Birthday Spring
It’s kind of hard to believe but The Spring Framework celebrated it’s 19th birthday last week. If you want you can read the blog post announcing Spring Framework 1.0 back on March 24, 2004.
Happy 19th Birthday Spring!
SpringOne @VMware Explore
This year, SpringOne is teaming up with VMware Explore in Las Vegas from August 21st-24th. The Spring community is essential, and without your voice, there is no Spring. If you are interested in speaking, please submit a talk by April 14th. We would love to hear from you. See you in Vegas!
Around the web
📝 Articles
Spring 3.0.5 was just released and with it comes Java 20 support.
🎬 Videos
I had the pleasure of hosting a new episode of The Golden Path to SpringOne. In this episode, I sat down with Maciej Walkowiak, a great member of our community and an all-around good guy. He spoke about the open-source project he runs, called Spring Cloud AWS, and its newest release, 3.0.
🎙 Podcasts
In this episode of the Lex Friedman Podcast Lex sits down with Sam Altman. If you don’t know Sam is the CEO of OpenAI and they talk about GPT-4, Chat GPT, and the future of AI.
In this episode of the Inside Java Newscast, Billy Korando walks us through an unboxing of Java 20. That’s right Java 20 was just released and if you want to find out what’s new this is a great video to get caught up on.
🐦 Tweet
I was able to unbox the BenQ ScreenBar plus last week and so far I’m very impressed.
https://twitter.com/therealdanvega/status/1638993071898611731
Until Next Week
I hope you enjoyed this newsletter installment, and I will talk to you in the next one. If you have any links you would like me to include please contact me and I might add them to a future newsletter. I hope you have a great week and as always friends...
Happy Coding
Dan Vega
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