Top 20 Libraries and APIs Java Developer should know

One of the traits of a good and experienced Java developer is the extensive knowledge of API, including JDK and third-party libraries. I spent a good deal of time learning API, especially after reading Effective Java 3rd Edition, where Joshua Bloch has advised us to use existing API for development rather than writing new pieces of code for common stuff. That advise making sense to me because of the testing exposure these 2nd party libraries get. In this article, I am going to share some of the most useful and essential libraries and API, a Java developer should be familiar with. Btw, I am not including frameworks e.g. Spring and Hibernate because they are pretty well known and have specific features.

Top 5 Books to Learn DevOps for Developers - Best of Lot

Hello guys, DevOps is one of the in-demand skills for experienced developers. It also offers a career path for senior developers who don't want to go to project management and want to remain technical and close to the code, but what is DevOps? and how can you learn DevOps? In the past, I have shared some of the best DevOps courses and a complete DevOps Developer RoadMap, and in this article, I'll share the best books to learn DevOps for developers, but before that let's understand What is DevOps?  It is nothing but is an integration of the word development (Dev) and Operations (Ops). Development here refers to software development, I mean the process of writing code, unit testing, debugging and running source codes to create software. While Operations are Information Technology Operations like deployment, support, and creating new environments.

Difference between Dependency Injection and Factory Design Pattern in Java Spring

Learning a Programming language like Java or Python is easy, but writing production-quality code is difficult. Coding is as much art the Science behind it. To write good code, you need to carefully design your classes, their dependency, and how to use that. This is important so that it can survive the constant change throughout his lifetime. If you have been coding for some time, then you know that SOLID principles and Design Patterns help you to write better code. This is obvious because they are proven the solution to some common problems software developers face all around the world. But, knowing just the design pattern is not enough, you also need to learn using the right design pattern in the right place.

10 Reasons to create Online Courses as a side hustle in 2020

These days everyone is turning to online courses to learn almost anything from programming languages like Java to Python, from a framework like React and Vue.js to skills like Data Science and Machine learning. Online teaching and learning have completely changed the way how people acquire knowledge. It was always said that a picture is worth more than 1000 words and online courses, particularly interactive and visual courses use them at their full potential. I often receive queries from my readers, fellow bloggers, and programmers about creating a side income apart from their full-time job, etc. Until last year, my advice to them was to create a blog, but now I am telling them to create an online course now, in 2020.

Top 5 Courses to Learn Selenium for Java Developers and Automation Testers - Best of Lot

The days of manual testing is limited as more and more companies are shifting towards Automation testing. This means all manual testing QAs needs to learn new test automation skills like Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG to give their career a boost. If you are manual testers or non-programming testers interested in learning test automation, a Java developer who wants to write a better integration test, or a freshers/graduates who want to kick start their career in automating testing then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share some of the best courses to learn Selenium Webdriver with Java and other automation testing tools like JUnit, Cucumber, etc.

10 Articles Every Web Developer Should Read

Hello guys, how are you doing? I am back again with my list of 10 articles everyone should read. In the past, I have shared 10 articles every programmer should read, which has was loved a lot by you guys, and many readers appreciated and says they benefited a lot from them. I can understand that becuase feeling of discovering a great article is similar to finding gold in a salt-mine. The intent is full of tutorials and resources, but not all of them are good, and with such huge numbers, it has become increasingly difficult to find good resources, or should I call the gem of articles, which everybody wants to read.