Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! We're already midway through March 2020, and I can't believe how crazy things have gotten! You're no doubt experiencing something equally as odd too. The pandemic has truly changed this world in a way nothing else has in recent memory. It's crazy to think about the course this virus has taken and the journey we've all taken along with it.

I live in San Francisco, and we're currently under lockdown. It's technically a crime now to leave your home for anything but essential needs like food, medicine, or walking the dog. That's OK. That just leaves more time for us to learn and socialize, albeit online and from the confines of our own homes. We're very lucky, you know? How wild. Most of us who work on software should be able to work from home. There are some glaring exceptions, of course, as detailed in this epic megathread…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to John Hawley (@warty9), a Linux kernel hacker, an open-source enthusiast and someone who's able to answer questions about open-source at VMWare.

• The Spring Live registration page
• My blog announcing Spring Live
• John Hawley (@warty9) on Twitter
• Spring Tips: Java 14 (Can Your Java Do This?)
• the VMWare Open-Source Blog

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we're going to look at the new features in Java 14 and their use in building Spring Boot-based applications.

Speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

To get started, we need to use the latest and greatest version of Java, Java 14, which isn't - just yet - released yet. It is due to be shipped in early 2020. You can download early access releases on Java.net. You might also consider using SDKManager (sdk), which makes installing new JVM editions a trivial matter indeed.

Remember, there are new Java releases every 6 months. These new releases are usable in production but are only supported for the six months between one release and the next. Every now and then, the Java project also releases a long-term support (LTS) release. That release is currently Java 11. Java 14 is only a viable target for production until Java 15 comes out. And indeed, we're going to look at a lot of preview features…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! My family and I are basically self-quarantined for the meanwhile, trying to avoid the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic that's ravaging communities around the world. This pandemic is bad because it's leaving countless thousands of sick or dead. It also means that it's harder for me to get on planes to meet people.

I'm disappointed I won't be able to - and haven't been able to - make these shows. But, there's always something to be learned and this week is no different. It was a busy week in Spring indeed! Let's get…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks with Sergi Almar (@sergiAlmar) about organizing one of the best JVM community shows in the business, Barcelona's Spring I/O, being a trainer, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips. In this episode we're going to look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Security. I love Kotlin. I introduced Kotlin in several other Spring Tips videos: The Kotlin Programming Language, Bootiful Kotlin Redux, and Spring's Support for Coroutines. Some of those videos are very old! There are already a number of different projects in the Spring diaspora that are shipping Kotlin DSLs. They include, among others, Spring Framework, Spring Webflux, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Contract and Spring Cloud Gateway. And now, Spring Security!

Spring Security is an amazing project - it solves some of the hardest problems in the industry and helps people secure their applications. And, as if that weren't enough, it's displayed a steadfast determination to make security easy. If you ever used Spring Security in its earliest incarnations, you'd know that it required loads of XML - pages! - to get anything done. That improved to the point where in Spring Security 3 you…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm home, in San Francisco, California, in the US, where the fears around Coronavirus have heated up and made things problematic for those of us who travel. It looks like, at least for the immediate future, I'll be - basically - grounded. Stay safe out there, my friends.

The good news is that this will let me get to a ton more other things like the blogs, A Bootiful Podcast and Spring Tips and of course my Reactive Spring book. And of course, we've got a ton of things to get to today in today's installment of This Week in Spring, so…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud team member lead Marcin Grzejszczak.

• Spring Cloud Contract
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Marcin on Twitter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to look at Alibaba's Apache RocketMQ. We've talked some about Alibaba in Spring Tips before. Check out the earlier Spring Tips installment in which we explore some of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Running Apache RocketMQ

In order to use Apache RocketMQ, you'll need to follow the steps in the RocketMQ quickstart. This Spring Tips installment introduces Apache RocketMQ, originally a technology developed and used internally at Alibaba and proven in the forge of 11/11, the famous Chinese sales holiday, sort of like "Cyber Monday," or "Black Friday," in the US. Sort of like that, but waaaaaay bigger. In 2019, Alibaba (alone, with no other e-commerce engines involved), made almost $40 billion USD in 2…

Hi, Spring fans! This week I am in delicious Philadelphia enjoying the amazing food (scrapple! TastyKakes!) and hanging out with amazing customers using VMWare and Spring to great effect. It's been a busy week since we last talked: I released a new Spring Tips installment, wrote a bunch of blogs, recorded a new podcast, and published a new podcast installment. We've got a lot to get to today so let's get to it!

• In this first installment of Spring Tips, season 7, I look at RSocket and Spring Security
• Spring Framework 5.2.4 and 5.1.14 available now
• Netflix Built a Spring Application Generator to Boost Dev Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.3.0.M2 Available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.3.0.M2 Available
• Netflix Built an Application Generator to Boost Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more
• You should probably check this video on …