In 2020, Spotify coined the term "Golden Path” to refer to a supported approach and set of components to build and deploy software. Having these paths simplifies the development process, lets developers focus on their applications instead of infrastructure and speeds time to production. Microsoft and VMware have partnered to make Azure Spring Apps a golden path for deploying and scaling Spring applications in the cloud. And with new capabilities like the scale to zero and developer productivity enhancements, Azure Spring Apps now offers an even more economical and optimized route to get your…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? You know what I've wanted to do? See my friends on the Spring team in person since the pandemic descended. And, I'm overjoyed to relate, I've just had the privilege of a nice meeting with several of them last night. And I'm going to see more of them today! Seriously. I feel like I won the lottery. I've missed my friends. Hug your friends and family, friends. You never know when the next pandemic (or life in general) will put distance between you and them. So, in order to close that distance, I'm going to go…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion Gunnar Morling (@gunnarmorling) about messaging middleware, Debezium, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! It's here! It's finally here, at long last! Spring Boot 3!! And of course with Spring Boot 3.0 comes a whole portfolio of integrated projects that have also been updated! Remember, a huge theme in this release is support for GraalVM native images, and that's now supported across the board. You know what to do: start.spring.io.

I put together a Spring Tipds video introducing some of the major themes of Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3.

I also did an in-depth look at the new GraalVM support powered by Spring's ahead-of-time (AOT) engine.

There's so much else to talk about this week, but I really can't stress this enough: Spring Boot 3 is here! In some ways, it feels like this release has been more than four years in the making! It's amazing, and I can't wait for people…

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here (or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!), bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and we'll dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring component model.

This video is a detailed masterclass on the new AOT engine. It starts by examining the everyday usecases of an application developer and delves deeper and deeper into the engine, treating concerns that library and framework developers will care about.

Enjoy!

Also, Happy thanksgiving…

Hi, Spring fans! It's Tuesday, the 22nd of November, 2022, as I write this, which means we're two days away from Spring Boot 3 and Thanksgiving. Spring Boot 3, I've written about in abundance so I won't rehash that. If you want to learn more about some of the amazing new features in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, perhaps check out my Spring Tips installment introducing them in this episode:

And, of course, a major new feature in Spring Boot 3 is the new ahead-of-time (AOT) engine, about which I speak at great length in tomorrow's new installment of Spring Tips:

This video is done so…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion, legendary engineer, and teacher Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee) bout her extraordinary career working at organizations like LMAX, MongoDB, Jetbrains, and her new books, Heads First Java, and Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA.

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doin' this fine Tuesday morning? I've returned home to San Francisco and am up and at 'em nice and early to catch a flight to Seattle, where I'll speak at the Java User Group tonight. If you're in Seattle, don't miss it!

We've got a ton of cool stuff to get into this week, but let's not bury the lede here: Spring Framework 6 comes out tomorrow, Wednesday, the 16th of November, 2022! And you know where to go to get the bits: the Spring Initialzr, start.spring.io!

Let's dive into this week's roundup!

• Did you see the new Reactor 2022.0.0 release? This release contains integration with Micrometer Tracing, context propagation, and plenty of other improvements. See this for more.
• Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now
• Updates on Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.0 Schema Registry Support
• Coming with the RC of Spring Modulith: improved module canvas listing cross-module bean references (first image) and publicly exposed value types (second image).
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes (@acogoluegnes) on the new and novel in RabbitMQ

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've been busy this last week! I've been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now I'm in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm near the end of my time here in SE Asia, which makes me sad. I'm dearly going to miss the food and the weather, but time waits for no person, and it's almost time to go home.

And with time comes a jam-packed roster of new things we can read and learn from. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legend, and prolific open source contributor Andres Almiray
• CVE Report Published for Spring Tools
• Can a Java Application Use More Memory than the Heap Size?
• JUnit – Testing Methods That Call System.exit()
• Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Data 2022.0.0-RC2 available
• Spring Modulith 0.1 M2 released
• Have you tested your application against the upcoming Spring Boot 3? There's a ton of amazing new features arriving in this release and you should definitely be kicking the tires now. Remember: Spring Framework 6 is due in about a week's time and Spring Boot 3 is due less than a few weeks after that! And you know where to go: …