Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring. Can you believe we're already nearing the end of August?? Time sure flies! Last week and over the weekend I was in Hangzhou, China visiting with Alibaba, talking to a few of the teams using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud at China-scale. This week I'm in Shanghai, China, where I've been talking to customers and spending a few days with the teams at Microsoft China who are working on the Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry integrations for Microsoft Azure. They're doing some amazing work and it's been an honor to hang out…
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week! I started last week talking to a group of developers in North Carolina, then gave a VJUG presentation with Matt Raible in San Francisco, then spoke to developers in Saint Louis, then flew to New York City to shoot a video on continuous delivery for three days in a hot studio (over the weekend no less!) and now as I wing back to San Francisco I look forward to spending a blissful 14 hours on the ground before I'm off to Asia (Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Singapore) for about…
Hi Spring fans! My favorite time of the year is almost here! It's that special time when people reunite, in the northern hemisphere's chilly December to give freely and unconditionally of one another; when people have jovial discussions (and sometimes heated debates) over dinner with people they admire; when people open their hearts and minds to each other; when we reflect on the year behind us and look forward to tomorrow, the next week and the next year; when amazing new memories we'll cherish forever are forged. It's that special time of giving, of openness. I don't need to tell you about…
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm presenting with my buddy Matt Raible on the VJUG (Virtual JUG) on Progressive Web Applications with Spring Boot and Angular 4, this Wednesday. Join us! Then it's off to New York City, NY where I'll be working with my buddy Marcin Grzejszczak on an exciting new project. Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR4. This release revises the versions for Spring Batch 3.0.8, Spring Boot 1.5.6, Spring Data Ingalls SR6, Spring Framework 4.3.10, Spring Integration 4.3.1…
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Nashville, TN, for a meetup presentation on Reactive Spring and then it's off to Kansas City, KS for a replay of the same talk. Both times I'll be joined by pal Mark Heckler. If you're in either of those cities, don't miss this! I'm working on the next installments of Spring Tips: what would you like to see covered? Let me know on Twitter on @SpringTipsLive. This week we have a truly massive good many things to look at so let's get started! Spring messaging and integration maestro Artem Bilan just announced…
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey talking to customers and speaking at the Spring and Java meetups tonight. I hope you'll join me and we'll talk about cloud native Java! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it! Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 4.3.11. This release includes security updates as well as bug fixes. Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.8, which is mainly a maintenance release and a bugfix release. Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has announced Spring Framework 4.3.10 which…
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Crete, Greece, for the epic JCrete un-conference and then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's visits with customers and for the Spring meetup. I hope you'll join me in Istanbul! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration Extension for Hazlecast 1.0.0.GA. This new release features mainly bug fixes and improvements. It also adds support distributed, clustered applications with implementations of HazelcastMessageStore, HazelcastLockRegistry, and HazelcastMetadataStore…
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City, Kansas; and Phoenix, Arizona talking to customers and Pivotal partners about all things Spring and Cloud Foundry. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi! We've got a lot to cover this week, so let's get started! Mark Fisher debuted the first look at Spring Cloud Function, an abstraction that brings the function-as-a-service paradigm to your Spring applications. This is a must-read! Spring (big-)Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 GA…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, then let me wish you a happy 4th of July! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.2. This new version improves compatibility with Spring Boot 1.5.4 which in turn brought in a new version of Spring Data. The Spring Framework Guru web portal has an interesting look at what's new in Spring Framework 5! Check it out! I liked this post on Bozho's Tech Blog on setting up the epic Spring Boot Admin for monolithic applications, eschewing some…
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago, New York City and Denver talking to Pivotal customers. We've got a lot of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0.RC1. The new release is primarily a bugfix. The post looks forward to Spring for Apache Hadoop 3.0, which will be based on Spring Boot, a Java 8 baseline, Spark 2.0 integration, and Spring Batch 4.0 readers and writers. Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch looks at a lot of the new features in Spring…
