It's 24th December now and only a few days have left in the year 2017. It's a good time to look back and retrospect what you have achieved in 2017 and what you could have done better. This will help you to create your goals for 2018. As a programmer, our biggest challenge is to keep ourselves up-to-date. Technology changes very fast and you will see a new version of programming language and framework coming to every couple of year. This year has plentiful of changes with JDK 9, Spring 5, Spring Security 5 and Spring Boot 2, it's probably the busiest year in terms of changes for Java developers.