News:

• A new collaboration with Google Cloud
  https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/a-new-collaboration-with-google-cloud.html

Articles:

• Optional Parameters in Java: Strategies and Approaches
  https://dzone.com/articles/optional-parameters-in-java-common-strategies-and
• 10 Reasons to Learn Scala and FP
  https://dzone.com/articles/10-reasons-to-learn-scala-and-functional-programmi
• Big changes to JUnit 5.2
  https://jaxenter.com/big-changes-junit-5-2-144037.html
• BDD Tool Cucumber is 10 Years Old: Q&A with its Founder Aslak Hellesøy
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/cucumber-bdd-ten-years
• Evolution of Couchbase at LinkedIn
  https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/05/evolution-of-couchbase-at-linkedin
• Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
  https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/three-day-no-meeting-schedule-for-engineers-fca9f857a567

Videos:

• Improving Life in Smaller, Heterogeneous Projects
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/smaller-heterogeneous-projects
• Streaming Reactive Systems & Data Pipes w. Squbs
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/squbs
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Test the Candy Crush Saga Game
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/candy-crush-ai-test
• DeepMind – From Generative Models to Generative Agents – Koray Kavukcuoglu
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oZIO8pE40