I almost wrote in 2020! There's been so much going on I almost forgot to take stock of the year. What a rush. We better get to the roundup before I somehow lose even more track of time. So, without further ado, this week's roundup.

• Spring Framework 5.3.3 is now available
• I posted another installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, this one looking at the fabulous WebClient
• Spring Data's Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Netty founder Trustin Lee
• In last week's installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, I looked at reactive dataflow with project Reactor
• A useful sheet full of information about GraalVM
• Oliver Drotbohm's collection of tiny helpers for building Spring applications
• This is very cool: Ruchi Saini wrote a pretty long introduction on how to build …

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Today we're going to look at an all-in-one, handy dandy HTTP client, the WebClient.

HTTP services are a common source of data…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Netty and Armeria founder Trustin Lee (@trustin).

• Armeria
• Netty
• Apache Mina
• Trustin's Twitter
• Trustin's Twitter in Korean
• Blog
• Trustin's Talks
• Speaker Deck
• Chat with Trustin in the Armeria Slack workspace

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

And it's a good thing we're covering some of these complexity-reducing gems, too, you see, because the world is a confusing…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy new year! And welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Today is a significant installment because it marks a decade of This Week in Spring!

I started this roundup after a fun discussion with the legendarily nice guy and SpringSource co-founder Keith Donald in late 2010 over the holiday. Lo, the first week of January 2011, the first edition of this roundup went out the door on the old SpringSource.org blog.

It's been so much fun putting together this roundup, without fail, every Tuesday for the last decade. You wouldn't believe the lengths to which I went to get this out on Tuesday, well, my Tuesday, no matter where I was. I'd be on planes all the time and the original blog software on SpringSource.org didn't support scheduling posts, so I'd either publish it a little early or - if I was going to be on a plane for the entirety of the useful day - I'd have my then manager Adam Fitzgerald post it for me. He reviewed the content for the first few years of the blog, too…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (#YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Have you tried out Paketo? It's neat-o! It alleviates one of the biggest pains of cloudy software these days:Dockerfiles.

As an aside: the biggest pain point is, of course, YAML. YAML is why people leave IT! YAML: when you want the indentation-sensitive treachery of Python, with the nonexistent design-time validation of Python and none…

Hi, Spring fans!

You know what I did? I goofed, people. I accidentally released This Week in Spring on this the last week of December, the last month of the year! And I shouldn't have. I should not have done that. Usually, you see, I turn the final installment of This Week in Spring for a given year into the aptly named This Year in Spring, a celebration of the big tentpole themes that have defined the year (well, from my perspective, anyway). Then I include the usual This Week in Spring roundup inline. I forgot to do that first part, so I am publishing this as a separate post. Hey, it's tradition…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast and happy new year! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google's Daniel Zou .

Happy New Year!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

How are you? How're things? I spent this morning on a fun two-hour panel hosted by the Barcelona JUG (who run the JBCN conference, among other things) talking about all sorts of things including GraalVM native images, new features in the Java language, cloud-native applications, and so much more. Thanks for having me!

I am so happy about this week's roundup and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Alibaba's San-Hong Li on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba Scale
• Cloud Events and Spring - part 2
• Cosium/spring-data-jpa-entity-graph: Spring Data JPA extension allowing full dynamic usage of EntityGraph on repositories
• Hah! This is so interesting! Give Python applications Spring Boot Actuator endpoints
• Interesting! A third party library to allow people to easily follow CQS principles in Spring Boot.
• Interesting: Open API v3 Generator for Spring Boot applications
• Java Proxies: From Dog to TransactionalDog
• Java libraries I like – Eduards Sizovs
• …

Hi, Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Alibaba's San-Hong Li (@SanHong_Li) on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba-scale.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you!