After the Java One 2016 SF Conference I decided to clarify the stack of technologies that I like to (continue to) use, experiment or learn.
Happy to use
- Java, Groovy, JavaScript
- Spring instead of Java EE
- Intellij Idea instead of Eclipse (I use Darcula LAF but old Eclipse shortcuts)
- Git (Stash - Bitbucket, and not so much Github) instead of SVN
- Gradle(Groovy scripting) instead of Maven, Ant
- Spock and Geb instead of (in fact together) with JUnit
- Angular instead of JQuery
- Grails (Spring, Hibernate, Quartz)
- Ionic (Angular, Cordova) for hybrid mobile applications (Android, iOS, Windows Phone)
- AWS (I'm already using: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, CM, SES, WorkMail)
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, HipChat, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
- Apple products (Mac Book Pro -> macOS Sierra, iPhone -> iOS 10, Apple Watch -> watchOS 3)
To experiment and learn
- Java 9 (modules, jshell)
- Docker
- Lambda expressions and streams (Java 8)
- AWS Lambda + Api Gateway services
- Scala (the last JVM language I will learn -> I will participate at Scala eXchange 2016 in London)
- Windows 10 and Windows Phone (because they are sharing the same store now)
- Raspberry Pi (I already have a PI 3 MODEL B)
To keep an eye on (I used them in past but not currently)
- Java EE (rebranded from JEE): Servlets, JSP, JAX-RS, JSF, EJB, CDI, JPA, etc
- VertX (with Java 9 lambdas the syntax is more clean than before)
- Firebase (for cloud serverless )
- Jenkins
- Mongo DB
Switch to new versions
- Java 7 -> Java 8
- Grails 2 -> Grails 3
- Ionic 1 -> Ionic 2 (Angular 1 -> 2)
