News:

• 7 things to look out for in 2019: Changes for open source, data privacy, and the cloud
  https://jaxenter.com/7-changes-2019-open-source-153080.html
• Amazon Announces the Availability AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/aws-region-europe-stockholm

Articles:

• Exception Handling in Java Streams
  https://dzone.com/articles/exception-handling-in-java-streams
• 26 Items for Dissecting Java Local Variable Type Inference (Var Type)
  https://dzone.com/articles/var-work-in-progress
• Microservices Architecture on the Modern Stack of Java Technologies
  https://dzone.com/articles/microservice-architecture-on-the-modern-stack-of-j
• Netflix OSS and Spring Boot — Coming Full Circle
  https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-oss-and-spring-boot-coming-full-circle-4855947713a0
• GitHub reflections: Was 2018 the year of open source?
  https://jaxenter.com/open-source-2018-github-153988.html
• 8 Atlassian experts share their predictions for 2019
  https://jaxenter.com/8-atlassian-experts-2019-microservices-153029.html
• InfoQ’s 2018, and What We Expect to See in 2019
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/infoq-2018-retrospective
• What it’s like to interview at Pinterest
  https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/what-its-like-to-interview-at-pinterest-e40f05a018f9
• Bigtable Autoscaler: saving money and time using managed storage
  https://labs.spotify.com/2018/12/18/bigtable-autoscaler-saving-money-and-time-using-managed-storage/
• 9 Skills to Transition Into AI Development
  https://dzone.com/articles/9-skills-to-transition-into-ai-development

Videos:

• Agile Architecture
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-architecture-springone-2018
• MIT AI: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs (Juergen Schmidhuber)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIo6evmweo