News:

• Oracle Announces New Java Champions
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/JavaChampions2017

Articles:

• Server-Side Validators Using Functional Interfaces
  https://dzone.com/articles/intellij-idea-20173-debugger-improvements
• 7 Things to Know Getting Started With Spring Boot
  https://dzone.com/articles/7-things-to-know-getting-started-with-spring-boot
• Binding Properties From External Sources in Spring Boot Apps
  https://dzone.com/articles/binding-properties-from-external-sources-in-spring-boot
• Top 5 cloud computing monitoring tools
  https://jaxenter.com/top-5-cloud-computing-monitoring-tools-140028.html
• Five Things Every Developer Should Know About Software Architecture
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-five-things
• COTA: Improving Uber Customer Care with NLP & Machine Learning
  https://eng.uber.com/cota/

Videos:

• Scaling Slack
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/slack-scalability