Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! This is a super exciting week! Spring Boot 2.0 is coming! Keep your eyes on the Spring Initializr or you'll miss it! :D Today I was at the Okta Iterate conference talking to developers who are using Spring and Okta, thanks to my buddy Matt Raible. High point? I got to meet Jeff Atwood, the co-creator of Stack Overflow! Tomorrow, I begin a whirlwind tour over the next two weeks. First, it's off to Glasgow, Scotland; then Sydney, Australia; then Dubai; then Bangalore, India (for Agile India 2018); and then it's off to Boston…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm speaking at the San Diego JUG with Mario Gray on testing with Spring. Then I'm off to the IBM Index conference here in San Francisco where I'll be talking about building reactive microservices, and then it's off to Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, where I'll be talking about Kotlin and testing. I hope you'll join me and say hi if you're nearby. Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.4. Check out this whitepaper on building flexible Spring Cloud Data Flow data pipelines It's now even easier to use…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it looks like i'll be in New York City and San Francisco for the balance of the week. We've got a lot to cover so without further ado so let's get started. Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has just put together a very nice post on using Spring Cloud Contract in a polyglot world Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Streamm Elmhurst M4 / 2.0.0.M4. Spring Integration legend Artem Bilan just…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stockholm, Sweden, for the epic (and snowy) JFokus event, then it's off to Frankfurt, Germany for the OOP show. If you're at either event, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi on Twitter (@starbuxman)! Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.GA is here! A cross-cloud (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes) option for continuous delivery/updating/rollback/query of Spring Boot-based applications. Spring Cloud Skipper underpins the recently added support in Spring Cloud Data Flow for versioning and rolling back stream definitions, but…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Los Angeles and Chicago and now I'm in San Francisco, taking meetings with Pivotal ecosystem folks and customers. We've got an incredibly busy week's worth of stuff ahead of us, so let's get to it! Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini has announced that Reactor Bismuth-SR5 is out with fixes, Reactive Streams 1.0.2, Netty 4.1.20 and a few new cool features there Check out this post by Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja on what the future of OAuth 2 support in Spring is Spring Security lead Rob Winch…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week In Spring. This week I'm in Los Angeles (warm!) talking to customers and then it's off to Chicago (not warm!). There's so much good stuff to cover this week so let's get to it! In PCF 2.0, the application runtime is now joined by an enterprise-grade Kubernetes service, called Pivotal Container Service, and a new Functions-as-a-Service offering, Pivotal Function Service. Pivotal's Jared Ruckle joins Jeff and Dormain for a look at PCF 2.0 in this new podcast Spring Cloud Sleuth now integrates with Brave and it's an exciting time for…

Aloha! This week I'm in sunny Honolulu for the first annual LavaOne conference. If you're not here, you should be! The show is amazing, enjoys 50% female to male audience attendance, the speakers are world-class (well, except yours truly, but don't tell them that..) and the location is pretty hard to beat! That said, nothing gives me more pleasure than saddling up to a table with a laptop, some green tea, sunglasses and sunscreen lotion and checking in on the community. This week's been a heckuva week indeed! Lot's of great stuff so let's get to it! Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to Germany where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group in Münster on Wednesday night. Then, it's off to Solingen for a Cloud Native day on the 12th (this Friday) where I'll be presenting all afternoon - register now! And, if you're closer to the Pacific ocean than the Atlantic ocean, join me next Monday in Hawaii and we'll talk about all things Spring at the very promising LavaOne conference. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. There's new support for auto-configuring the Reactor…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope you had a wonderful, safe and fruitful new year celebration. This is the first roundup of the new year and so it is also the 7th year anniversary of my starting this column. Every Tuesday, without fail (come holiday, sick-day, flights or frights!), since the first week of January 2011, I've put together this roundup and it has been, and continues to be, an honor. As usual, I'm always happy to have feedback and suggestions from you, the most amazing community ever! Don't hesitate to reach me on Twitter (@starbuxman…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another, albeit very special, installment of This Week in Spring! This is the last installment before 2018 and so we'll take the opportunity to review, as we always do in the last installment of the year, this very exciting year in Spring and its ecosystem. Let me, on behalf of the Spring and larger Pivotal team, to be the first to wish you and yours a heartfelt happy and safe New Year! Let's first look at some of the major trends that defined 2017. We've got a lot to cover! Spring Framework 5 and Reactive Programming - this year we released Spring Framework 5.…