Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dan North (@tastapod), creator of BDD, optimizer of teams and all around legend.

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already November 17th, 2020!? We're weeks away from Thanksgiving here in the US and then the end-of-year holidays. I, for one, can not believe it. You know what else is pretty wild? The first week of January will be ten years of writing This Week in Spring!

I've got a pretty busy appearance schedule between now and the end of the year though. I'd love to see you at any of these events.

And, with all that out of the way, we've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot 2.4 and living legend, CTO, and friend John Davies
• A Seal of Approval: Project Pinniped
• AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
• Biased locking Obsoletion
• BuildKit CLI for kubectl: A New Way to Build Container Images
• Case Study: Elasticsearch sink
• Episode 7 “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz
• Implement a rolling index strategy with Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1 | sothawo
• Matt Raible looks at ways to secure your applications with Spring Security
• New Project Lanai Early Access build
• OpenJDK Projects Give Rise to Innovations in JDK 15 and Beyond
• …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the week that was, talks about the JUST released Spring Boot 2.4, and then talks to industry legend and larger-than-life friend John Davies (@jtdavies)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 10th, 2020, as I write this and I, for one, can not believe that we're closer to 2021 than we are to 2019 at this point. That's insane. Time has absolutely rocketed by in some senses and stood utterly still in others. Odd year, this one.

I hope you're all doing well! I'm at the Reactive Summit today (virtually, of course). This afternoon I was on a wonderful panel with all sorts of folks from around the ecosystem. And soon, around 17:30 or so, if memory serves, I'll be speaking about RSocket and its use in…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring legend Thomas Risberg (@trisberg).

Hi, Spring fans! I hope you're all doing well, staying safe, healthy and happy. Today's election day here in the US, so I am super happy to have the chance to dive into this week's roundup as a bit of a distraction. We've got a ton to get through today, so let's!

• I really enjoyed last week's A Bootiful Podcast episode with Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen
• Spring Integration 5.4 goes GA; some other Integration releases
• Spring Boot 2.4.0.RC1 is now available
• Notice of Permissions Changes to repo.spring.io, Fall and Winter, 2020
• Congrats, Carsten Hoffmann, on your first live-coding presentation, and congrats on starting your work from my second favorite place on the internet: start.spring.io!
• Oleh Dokuka on Twitter: "Woo! ? ? New RSocket 1.1.0 is GA. It includes, among other things, 10x better performance than before, reworked loadbalance API and implementation, a new RSocketClient…

Hi Spring fans! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to legendary Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen (@sam_brannen)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already nearly November in this crazy rollercoaster ride that is 2020. Crazy.

We've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's waste not a second more.

• Spring Framework 5.3 goes GA This is a huge release, and the most important thing we'll look at today. Go read this post first. This release includes a ton of new features!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Optic CEO Aidan Cunniffe on OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more
• I loved this case study that talks about how VMware (my employer) uses Kotlin Case Studies: VMware - Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
• Case Study: Aggregator Function and Processor
• Check out my DevFest Romania presentation - Bootiful Kotlin
• The Maven Daemon is kind of like the Gradle deamon in that its a long-running process (but one compiled using GraalVM) that can greatly speed-up the use of Apache Maven…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Optic (@UseOptic) CEO Aidan Cunniffe (@aidandcunniffe) about OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? It's been unseasonably warm here in San Francisco so I am writing this from my balcony with a warm cup of coffee and hope in my heart. It is still very hard to believe we're near Halloween, though! Crazy how time flies. There's lots of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! Hopefully you can enjoy this week's news from some warm, safe and healthy spot in your life, too.

• A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Patrick McFadin on DataStax Astra, Cassandra, Cassandra data modeling patterns, and more
• A tutorial on Batch and REST
• History of Open Source and Free Software: Dirk & Swap: Conversations on Open Source
• Incubator support for Spring and GraphQL
• Premiering: Bootiful Kotlin
• Proposed schedule for JDK 16
• Spring Authorization Server 0.0.2 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.0-M4 available now
• Spring Data 2020.0 RC2 out now
• Spring Integration 5.4 Release Candidate 1 Available
• Spring Security: Delegating authorization checks to bean methods
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