It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate and understand that the devil is in the details regarding software development. Writing happy-path business logic isn't the hard part! It's the failure cases, observability, resilience, and process. It's security and other so-called non-functional requirements. It's architecting for agility. It's production. Spring is unique because it sits at the crossroads of many exciting application development discussions. Spring's community contains multitudes and is one of the key defining features. This diversity of discussion means that any…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend, fellow Java Champion, and director of developer relations and strategy at Couchbase, Laurent Doguin (@ldoguin) SpringOne 2022 is almost here! This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December in my sunny San Francisco, CA! Register now at SpringOne.io and use the code S1VM22_Advocate_200 to get $200 off the current registration price.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein I endeavor as best as I can to capture the latest-and-greatest in the wide, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom! Naturally, I fail miserably basically every week. There's no way I could hope to capture everything of note. But I persist... Are you coming to SpringOne 2022? This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December here in my hometown of sunny San Francisco…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann (@PaaSDev), about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot of good stuff to get to so let's dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring Security JWT I also loved Dan's video on Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter Dispatching Queries in Axon Framework Guide to Find the Java .class Version Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released Static Fields and Garbage Collection Blog: Announcing the Auto…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang (@joatmon08) about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot.

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? It's a fantastic Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2022, and I couldn't be happier. It's also Labor Day weekend here in the US. It marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad. But, on the upside, it's a four-day weekend for me! I'm technically off today. So, you'll forgive me, but I won't spend too much time here. Let's dive right into this week's roundup! A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Kris De Volder on Spring Tools, VS Code, and so much more Connect to Multiple Databases Using Spring Data Mongodb End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry I love this article by…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dr. Kris De Volder, a longtime member of the Spring Tools team, about all the cool stuff he's worked on and is going to work on. And then we get knee deep into a discussion around building IDE integrations.

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you. Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to make it easier to get started and accommodate smaller projects. Announcing Price and Base Unit Reduction Effective September 1st, we are reducing the base unit of Azure Spring Apps Standard and Enterprise to 6 vCPUs and 12 GB of Memory. And reducing the overage prices for vCPU and Memory. New Monthly FREE…

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from our friend Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft As a company, we are committed to making Java developers as efficient and productive as possible. This commitment means empowering you to use any tool, framework, and application server on any operating system. Wherever you are with Java, Microsoft supports your workload with an abundance of choices and with a wide range of developer tools and services. Code, Deploy, and Scale Java Your Way Today, more and more Java developers are looking at how they can bring their existing Java…