Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC (for the NYC Java SIG), Austin and San Francisco (for the Silicon Valley Spring User Group) talking to customers and doing meetups! We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get to it!

• Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform from Netflix built on Spring Boot. It supports a build-and-bake pipeline and works naturally with Spring Boot and various cloud platforms. It's enjoyed contributions from Microsoft, Google and Pivotal. In this post, Spring ninja Greg Turnquist introduces Spring Cloud Spinnaker 1.0.0.M1. Definitely worth a look!
• this seemed interesting - a code generator that supports Spring-based applications called Sifu
• JAX London just announced their top 20 social influencers for Java. Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke and I made the list…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Since we last spoke I've presented at conferences and to customers in London, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore - where I am now. Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be speaking at the Singapore Spring Meetup - join me! It's been quite a few days!

• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch has done another great post looking at Spring Cloud Vault
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.2
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.3
• Check out this deck to learn about how Spring Boot is used at PayPal
• I liked my buddy Richard Seroter's review of our SpringOne Platform event a few weeks ago
• I loved Camille Fournier's post on some real-life architecture patterns of microservices and, particularly, her observations on the challenges of …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm recovering from a crazy awesome week at SpringOne Platform while visiting customers here in summer-time London.

We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• the IntelliJ IDEA folks have updated their coverage on Spring
• there were several wrapup blogs from last week's SpringOne Platform event, including the two we published on this very blog for day 1

and day 2 and the posts on Pivotal's main blog for day 1, day 2, day 3, and final call

• while we're at the Pivotal blog, those of you wondering about Blockchain on Cloud Foundry might appreciate this post
• SpringOne Platform was filled with excellent keynotes, all of which will be available online already (or soon). Naturally, you have to watch Adrian Cockroft (@adrianco) 's excellent Simplifying the Future keynote: "Let's just do Spring Boot on Cloud Foundry."
• want to know about the future of the leading application server on the JVM, Apache Tomcat, for whose development Pivotal is a large sponsor? Check out this InfoQ interview with Pivotal's own Mark Thomas
• Last week we had the likes of James Governor from Redmonk and Charles Humble from InfoQ taking in the show and talking about it. I liked Charles Humble's coverage of the first day keynote - …

by Josh Long and Pieter Humphrey

Spring's central to a key message: software is business differentiating functionality, and everything that defers an organization's from delivering better software, faster and safer, should be automated or eliminated. SpringOne Platform captures that narrative with talks on all things continuous delivery.

The SpringOne Platform 2016 event shows how everything about this show has been bigger and better than ever! We've doubled the conference attendance from 2015, with record (2000+) attendees, 200+ talks, 30+ sponsors, amazing speakers from Netflix, Paypal…

Welcome to another very special installment of This Week in Spring - this week Pivotal is out in force at SpringOne Platform 2016. This year saw more people, more topics and more sponsors than ever! For more, check out our SpringOne Platform recap blog!

If you're not here, then fear not all the talks will be available online, but until then.. wish you were here! As with previous years, the race to SpringOne was filled with awesome releases that should keep you more than busy while you wait for the talks to be available online as replays! Let's get to it!

• Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb announced Spring Boot 1.4, just in time for SpringOne Platform!
• ..and Spring Boot ninja Stephane Nicoll announced Spring Boot 1.3.7
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch announced Spring Data Ingalls M1, packed with lots of new features (and 250 tickets fixed!) include for property access in conversion subsystem (Commons, MongoDB), an update to Cassandra 3.0 for Spring Data Cassandra,
…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm mostly in San Francisco and Saint Louis, busily preparing for the big event next week!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice? Join the discussion August 1-…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California talking to customers and doing meetups.

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Dublin, Ireland and London, UK, and Boston, Massachusetts, giving open workshops at Pivotal Dublin and London and speaking to local customers. It's been a fun week and there's a lot to cover! So, let's get to it!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in rainy but beautiful Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo (come join me for a talk on Wednesday!), Osaka, and Hiroshima, Japan where I'll be doing a few meetups and talking to businesses of all shapes and sizes. If you're in either region, please hit me up!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Munich and Wolfsburg, Germany, visiting with customers, then it's off to Seoul, South Korea, for customers and some user group talks.

This week we've got a lot of exciting Spring Cloud Data Flow news, coincident with the new Spring Cloud Data Flow RC1

• The good Dr. Pollack, co-lead of the Spring Cloud Data Flow project, just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow RC1 which has updated deployers supporting deployments locally and to Apache YARN, Kubernetes, Mesos, and of course Cloud Foundry, an incredible integration of Spring Cloud Flo (a visualization for Spring Cloud Data Flow streams) into the Spring Cloud Data Flow Dashboard, improved OAuth support and so much more!
• I really enjoyed Mark Paluch's excellent blog pulling back the veil of obscurity around the security secrets sensation sweeping the nation, Hashicorp Vault, and how Spring Cloud Vault works…