Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the just-announced support for reactive transactions, now supported in both R2DBC and Spring Data MongoDB. speaker: Josh Long twitter: @starbuxman

Hi Spring fans! It's been quite a crazy week! I was in Spring I/O last week in Barcelona, Spain and there was a deluge of interesting news to come out of the show! I loved the show - a sort of mini SpringOne - and am chomping at the bit to see what comes next. I'm now beginning a small tour starting in Zurich, Switzerland; then I'm off to the paradise-like Paris, France for the epic SpringOne Tour event there, then I'm off to Minsk, Belarus; then off to Barcelona, Spain for JBCN, and then - finally - home for the middle school graduation of my kid at the end of the month. So much exciting…

HI Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Nicolas Frankel (@nicolas_frankel) about integration testing, blogging, Kotlin, application security, living on the French/Swiss border, blogging consistently, and much more. It's an interview with one of my favorite voices in the community. Nicolas on Twitter (@nicolas_frankel) Nicolas' epic blog

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive)! In this installment we look at the just-landed community contribution in Spring Batch adding support for Apache Kafka. This new support offers some tantalizing opportunities to bridge batch and streaming workloads. Stage large writes to backend warehouses with Kafka and drain the stream with Spring Batch. Load large amounts of data from existing datastores and funnel it into stream processing pipelines. And the possibilities become even more interesting when you consider Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Stream…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in beautiful Krakow for the epic Geecon show and then I'm off to spectacular Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O show. I hope to see you in both locations! It's sure to be fun. Next week it's going to be even more crazy! Next week I'm off to Zurich, Switzerland for a visit with some customers, and then it's off to Paris, France for the Spring One Tour event there, and then it's off to Minsk, Belarus, for the VOXXED Days Minsk show (my first time there! I'm so excited!), and then right after that, it's off to Barcelona…

Hi Spring fans! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) sits down with Jetbrain's Roman Elizarov (@relizarov). Roman works on the Kotlin team and, among other things, focuses on asynchronous programming with things like coroutines. This interview was a very detailed dive into the opportunities for asynchronous programming for Spring developers using Kotlin, especially in light of the new coroutine support coming in Spring Framework 5.2. Twitter: Roman Elizarov (@relizarov) A great blog by Sebastien Deleuze on our new support

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to create dynamic views using Spring Webflux, server-sent events, websockets and Thymeleaf's reactive model attributes. speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in beautiful Sao Paolo, Brazil for QCon Sao Paolo then it's off to Devoxx UK in London. As usual, lots of good stuff to get to so let's get to it. Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RELEASE Available! A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Engineer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RC2 Released! Interesting thread on Reddit.com: Docker and Spring Boot done properly? Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface Microservices with Spring…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud engineeer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma (@olga_maciaszek) about joining the Spring team, testing, consumer driven contracts and consumer driven contract testing, and so much more. Olga's Twitter (@olga_maciaszek)

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in colorful Chicago, Illinois, and magnificent Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so excited to be in both places. I'm in Chicago for the GOTO Chicago event, which is always fun, and I'm in Milwaukee for a meetup and, of course, to partake of local delicacies like Kopps, a Cousins sub, and a Spotted Cow beer. Life is great! Did you see this epic image of the Chicago Lakeshore area I took the other day? Spring is truly in full swing! (I'll ignore the buckets of rain that have been dumped on Chicago and Milwaukee…