Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

• Spring Tips: IO, IO, It's Off To Work We Go - this video took off! In it, I introduce IO, NIO, and Netty as a way to understand what we mean when we talk about blocking and non-blocking.
• Spring Boot Reference Documentation has been updated to include Kotlin
• Spring Data — Never Rollback Readonly Transactions
• Feb 1 - What's new in Spring Boot 2.6?
• Preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 With Prototype of Context Receivers, Parallel Compilation on JVM, Incremental Compilation in JS, and More | The Kotlin Blog
• Java's System Logger abstraction
• Deploying Carvel…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the wide and wonderful world of IO on the JVM.

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doin' well. Got a lot of exciting stuff to share with you in the near future so check this space! We've got a ton to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm
• Introduce example value object implemented as record. · xmolecules/jmolecules-examples@4e60942
• Spring Shell 2.1.0-M2 is now available
• Spring Tools 4.13.1 released
• the initial Micrometer 2.0.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0 observability is on its way to Spring Boot!
• Additions and Updates to Microsoft Build of #OpenJDK https://t.co/LRWnPdBTIY #OpenJDK https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/additions-and-updates-to-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
• Blog: Spotlight on SIG Multicluster
• Build 33 of Java 18 is available
• Liberica Native Image Kit 22.0.0.2 and 21.3.1 builds are released…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm) about building elegant architectures.

• jMolecules
• Moduliths
• Architecturally Evident Code with jMolecules

Hi, Spring fans! It's a new Lunar year, so that's exciting, and I just celebrated my birthday, and that of my late father, as well. That was exciting. But there was also some bittersweet news. Let's get that out of the way first...

My friend, my hero, Stéphane Maldini, former project lead of Project Reactor and cofounder of the Reactive Streams initiative, passed away two months ago. We in the Java community made him a Java Champion posthumously. We miss him dearly. I think of him when I write reactive code.

Mon ami, mon héros, Stéphane Maldini, ancien lead de l'equipe Reactor et cofondateur…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Framework co-founder and project lead, friend, and all-around amazing human being, Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3.

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already the 25th of the first month of a brand new year!? And we're fast approaching the Lunar New Year, often also called the Chinese New Year, which will arrive next Tuesday. Reunion dinner will be on the 31st of January, and the two weeks of celebration will begin. All that to say that this is my last real chance, speaking I'm sure for the entire Tanzu team, to wish everyone around the planet (billions of people!) who celebrates a very happy Lunar New Year (Mandarin: 新年快乐 (pronounced: xin nian kauai le ) / Cantonese: 新年快乐 (pronounced: san nin fai lok…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to returning guest RedHat's Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91) on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka.

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot apps, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. And gain a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments.

Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed, fun-filled, rock'em sock'em installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 18th of January and I'm feelin' great because I just got back from a three-day weekend. Here in the US, we celebrated on Monday the life of the good Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who advanced the plight of African American civil rights. Dr. King is another one of my favorite doctors, along with Drs. Syer, Strange, Who, Subramaniam, and Pollack.

How're you? We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan
• First Spring Data 2022.0.0 and 2021.2.0 milestones released
• Michael Coté on Twitter
• the Oracle Java team's Sharat Chander (@sharat_chandler) recently took time to thank me, along with my heroes and Bootiful Podcast guests Dr. Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) and Matt Raible (@mraible), for our contributions to the Java ecosystem. I want to return the favor, Sharat, here on this very large platform: thank YOU for all you've done for the community. You're an inspiration.
• Spring Data 2021.1 SR1 and 2021.0 SR8 released
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