Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Wavefront co-founder and VMware Principal Engineer Clement Pang (@panghy).

Hi, Spring fans! What a week it's been! Tomorrow I'll be presenting a webinar on the easy integration between Spring Boot and Tanzu Wavefront. Wavefront is an all-in-one, integrated distributed tracing metrics analytics observability platform. Join us tomorrow to learn about observability, about Wavefront, and their integration in the Spring ecosystem with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Micrometer, among other things.

We've so many great things to look at this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Tools 4.7.0 released
• A Bootiful Podcast: Nisha Kumar and Rose Judge on the Linux Foundation's project Tern
• What's new in Spring Boot 2.3
• Getting Started With RSocket: Spring Security
• Spring Tips: Spring and Graal (pt. 2)
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire 1.1.8.RELEASE and 1.2.8.RELEASE available!
• Julien Dubois on an Azure Native Function with Spring Cloud Function
• VMworld 2020 Digital Edition
• I love this Spring Data JDBC example demonstrating an integration with JOOQ.
• Check out the rewritten getting started guide on using Spring Data JPA with Azure Database for MySQL
• A great post on Okta Developer: Angular, Docker with a Big Hug from Spring Boot …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Nisha Kumar and Rose Judge who work on the Linux Foundation's project Tern.

• Tern from the Linux Foundation
• Shift Left testing
• SPDX
• A Maven plugin supporting SPDX

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed weekly roundup of This Week in Spring.

I've got a few upcoming speaking engagements you might be interested in. I'll be speaking (virtually) at the San Francisco JUG on June 24th at 6:30 PM. Join me!

Can't make it to the (virtual) SF JUG appearance? On June 30th, VMware Tanzu (where the Spring team lives) will be hosting one of my workshops, also on Reactive Spring. I'm going to cover tons of stuff: R2DBC, Reactor, Spring WebFlux, Spring WebFn, reactive Spring Data for SQL and NoSQL, RSocket, reactive security, reactive service orchestration, and composition patterns, and more. This is going to be at an ideal time for EU timezones, so please register now…

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to a very special, interregnum episode of Spring Tips where we revisit Spring and GraalVM native images. I wanted to get this video out in light of the recent Spring Graal 0.7.1 release which drastically simplifies things even compared to the last time we looked at Spring and Graal waaay back in April 2020.

TL;DR: GraalVm is a JIT replacement that you can use with a stock-standard JVM, and that's worth looking into in its own right. GraalVM also offers a separate feature supporting native image compilation. This native-image builder takes bytecode and turns it into an architecture-specific binary that sheds the JVM and embeds something called SubstrateVM. Native images are fast to startup and they take way…

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast. In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Kubernetes guru and colleague Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski) about Austin, TX BBQ, Kubernetes and so much more.

Hi. How are you all doing? I hope you're doing well.

There's some interesting stuff this week so, without further ado...

• Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 available now
• Migrating Spring Boot's Build to Gradle
• A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes Release SIG Tim Pepper
• Just curious, how do you run your Spring Boot application? Interesting thread
• VMware: A Founding Member of GitHub's New Security Lab
• Use Spring Data JDBC with Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
• RabbitMQ will be migrating to Mozilla Public License 2.0 in the upcoming month(s)
• An interesting article on virtual threads use of preemptive scheduling
• Introduction to event-driven microservices with Spring Cloud Stream – Piotr's TechBlog
• Great Twitter thread by Sergi Almar: …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Tim Pepper (@pythomit) from VMware's Open Source Technology Center about Kubernetes and his role on the Kubernetes Release SIG.

Hi, Spring fans. We've got a ton of stuff to cover this week so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR6, Hoxton.SR5 and 2020.0.0-M2 (aka Ilford) are Available
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Malini Bhandaru on EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space
• Spring Security OAuth 2.5.0 Released
• Spring Fu 0.3.0 and beyond
• Spring Tools 4.6.2 released
• Spring Batch Integration
• What's new in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0
• This Month in RabbitMQ
• A really nice thread about using Spring Boot, GraalVM native images, and Azure Functions
• Running Spring Boot GraalVM Native Images with Docker & Heroku
• Understanding Apache Maven - a great series by Chandra Guntur
• New blog post: Static Compilation of Java (and Spring Boot-based) Applications at Alibaba at Scale](https://medium.com/graalvm/static-compilation-of-java-applications-at-alibaba-at-scale-2944163c92e…