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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week for all of us on the Spring team, as you're about to see! I've just finished my presentation at the epic DevNexus show and now I'm off to visit customers in Hartford and Los Angeles before making my way to the epic ConFoo conference in Montreal, Canada. If you're in the area, be sure to ping me and say hi! We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini just announced Reactor 2.5: A Second Generation Reactive Foundation for the JVM. This is a huge part of our continued efforts to…
