The Bigger Picture

Let's talk about Pivotal. Our ambition is to make business more agile, to reduce the time around the innovation loop; speed is the single biggest advantage an organization can have. Pivotal's main "product" is agility. This translates naturally into technology. Microservices are well-defined, small, easy-to-evolve, independently deployable batches of functionality. They lend themselves to rapid iteration because they're small. Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem make short work of standing up new microservices and applications, and Spring Cloud handles the complexity in…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in wet and wonderful New York City. It's already almost tax-day here in the US! Whew! time is sure flying. Other (markedly more pleasant) annual landmarks will soon be here, including our big SpringOne Platform event, so book your tickets now!

Also, I'll be joining my friends Simon Maple, Daniel Bryant, and Markus Eisele for a webinar on microservices on April 19th - join us! It should be fun and - hopefully - interesting!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data Hopper went GA! This release includes 395 tickets closed and represents a substantial body of work! Get the bits and try it out now!
• Spring Integration and general messaging ninja Artem Bilan's just announced the first milestone in the Spring Integration Kafka 2.0 series. This release represents a complete rewrite of the support provided in Spring Kafka based on the Producer and Consumer APIs in Kafka 0.9x. Check it out, kick the tires and give feedback!
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream 1.0RC2. This release includes support for the ObjectMapper…

I just wanted to register here an experience that made me smile yesterday: making the rapidly improving Spring Cloud Data Flow wiggle from (Spring Boot) start(-ers) to service in a matter of minutes!

The only pre-requisite is that you have a Redis instance runnning. My Redis instance is running on 127.0.0.1 and it required no further configuration for Spring Boot to find and work with it.

We'll use the epic Spring Initializr to make short work of generating our applications. Remember those silly Apple commercials, "There's an App For That?" Nevermind that, there's a checkbox for that! Let's…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1 has been released! Get the bits and try it out.
• Oracle's amazing Geertjan Wielenga put together an awesome, 100% live demo looking at how to use Spring Boot with NetBeans
• I love Spring Cloud Data Flow! Whether you want a way to describe and compose complex processing streams from simple actor-like components, want to orchestrate stream processing solutions, manage tasks like data at-scale data ingest or otherwise, Spring Cloud Data Flow is probably what you're looking for. Check out this quick look at…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm working with customers and trying to bring the Spring (and hoping for the according weather!) to hitherto snow-covered Denver, Colorado.

• the momentum behind the sensation that's sweeping the nation, Spring Cloud, continues as it picks up speed heading to Spring Cloud Brixton's final release! The first release candidate, Spring Cloud RC1, is now available! The new release has a lot of new features - make sure to consult the README!
• Joe Stein's Developing Real-Time Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka from SpringOne2GX 2015 talk replay is now up
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls' SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on developing social applications with Spring Social is now up
• Martin Lippert continues his epic series on the really …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm supposed to be in Paris and Belgium. Unfortunately, because of the recent, tragic, disgusting and cowardly attacks on the Brussels airport and metro, I am not entirely sure about whether I'll be in Belgium physically. Tonight's meetup talk, however, will carry on remotely, via streaming. Stay tuned to my Twitter handle - @starbuxman for more.

That said, there's a lot of great content so let's get to it!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced the first release candidate of Spring Data Hopper.
• our local Spring and Kotlin ninja Sebastien Deleuze has put together a blog demonstrating some interesting applications of Spring and Kotlin in his sample application, a GeoSpatial Messenger.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has announced Spring Security SAML 1.0.2.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert continues his series on using Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry from the Spring Tool Suite. This installment looks at Cloud Foundry manifests, among other things.
• Spring Security and Spring Session lead Rob Winch has just announced two new cuts: Spring Session 1.2.0.RC1 and Spring Session 1.1.1…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a crazy week it's been since we last talked! I spent a day in San Francisco, Germany, Scotland, and Romania between Monday and Friday last. It's nice this week to be in (warm!) southern California in Los Angeles and San Diego speaking to customers and at a couple of meetups! If you're around, I hope you'll join me for the Cloud Native Meetup here in Los Angeles (tonight!).

• the 2016 NFJS tour has just kicked off, first in Minneapolis. The amazing Craig Walls and Matt Stine be presenting at most of the NFJS shows in 2016 on all manner of topics including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and (later this year) Spring’s new reactive stuff. Make sure to check out the event in your city!
• JUnit 5 is coming! Check out Lukas Eder's quick runthrough of some of the new features in JUnit 5. JUnit 5 is critical infrastructure code, and it's for this reason that we at Pivotal were happy to help sponsor some of its development.
• Get the …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bruhl, Germany for the amazing JavaLand show, then it's off to Scotland to visit a large customer, and then it's off to Romania for Voxxed Days Bucharest. If you're in any of those places, I'd love to connect!

• Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll introduces some of the niceties in Spring framework 4.3
• Do not miss Micah Silverman's upcoming webinar introducing the amazing Stormpath and Spring/Spring Boot-based integration and Auto-configuration. Stormpath is an epic identity provider as-a-service. It's ideal for cloud-based applications.
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform 2.0.3
• From SpringOne2GX 2015, Integration lead Gary Russell shows us how RabbitMQ powers Spring XD
• Thomas Risberg, also from SpringOne2GX 2015, shows us how simpler Hadoop workflows, and distribution portability make raw Hadoop much simpler for Spring developers. …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Shenzhen, China and Zurich, Switzerland for Voxxed Days Zurich. It's going to be a busy week indeed though I sure hope to see you there! Anyway, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot ninja Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Boot 1.4.0M1 with excellent couchbase support
• Spring Session lead Rob Winch, never resting on his laurels, just announced Spring Session 1.1.0
• Also not resting on his laurels, Stéphane just announced Spring Framework 4.2.5, chock full 'o bug fixes and updates
• Spring XD lead Mark Pollack has just announced that Spring XD 1.3.1 is now GA, along with Spring Flo for XD 1.0.1 GA
• Martin Lippert, the lead developer on Spring Tool Suite, has added better support for both Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry, as well as picking up the latest Eclipse Mars distro, in …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're already staring down the last weeks of February!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced Spring Data Gosling SR4 containing 45 bugfixes. Get it while it's hot!
• Want to learn more about Spring Data Gosling? Check out this replay of Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke's introduction too the new bits
• the first milestone of Spring Integration 4.3, the last in the 4.x series, has arrived! Lots of small new features to tide you over before Spring framework 5 and the reactive support there become the baseline for Spring integration 5
• Let's hear it for women in tech! Ludwine Probst & Ilayaperumal Gopinathan bring you this SpringOne2GX 2015 replay: …