Hi Spring fans! In this episode we talk to fellow Apress author, Spring R&D manager, Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella about all things task and batch processing with Spring, South Africa, and so much more. Michael Minella on Twitter (@michaelminella)

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the just-announced Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker project, which provides an abstraction atop Netflix' Hystrix, Resilience4J, Alibaba's Sentinel and Spring Retry and supports reactive and non-reactive circuits. speaker: Josh Long twitter: @starbuxman

HI Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny California, then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for the epic SpringOne Tour event, and then it's off to Chicago, Illinois for the better-and-better GOTO Chicago show. I hope to see you there! We've got a busy week in Spring so without further ado let's get to it! Preview releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are available: 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 A Bootiful Podcast: Pivotal Field CTO and OG Cloud Native Matt Stine on Architecture Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.1.0.M1 released Spring Tools 4.2.1 released CVE…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast. In this episode, recorded in lovely Johannesburg, South Africa for the SpringOne Tour event, I'm joined by my buddy and one of the original cloud natives, Matt Stine! Matt's Twitter (@mstine)

Hi Spring fans! What a week it's been! When we last spoke I was in Capetown, South Africa or Johannesburg, South Africa. I've since been to Mauritius, back to Capetown, Serbia (for the amazing ITKonekt conference) and I'm now staring at the beautiful Bund river in beautiful Shanghai, China as I write this. We've got a ton to get to this week, as usual, so let's get to it. Hi Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of Spring Tips, this one on the just-released-in-master support for RSocket Messaging in Spring Boot 2.2. It's here! It's finally here! I was so excited to see this land and…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips Josh revisits RSocket, the reactive application protocol from, among others, Facebook, this time looking at the brand new Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2 integration. speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Here's the first Spring Tips installment introducing the "raw" RSocket protocol and Java client library

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Roy Braam a solution's architect at Rabobank, a bank in the Netherlands, about how they are able to quickly iterate despite regulation and size. Roy Braam on Twitter Rabobank Josh Long on Twitter

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another wild-and-wacky week of This Week in Spring! I'm in Johannesburg, South Africa where I both spoke at the SpringOne Tour South Africa event and at the Johannesburg Java User Group. Had tons of fun on safari visiting (from the safety of a good deal of distance and an SUV) the utterly astonishing and beautiful - majestic - wildlife here. I can't stress that last part enough. The animals here are so, so, SO breathtaking. I got as close as I ever want to get to an elephant that was like a small house with eyes. Utterly massive! It towered over buses. When you go…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's episode Josh talks to Microsoft's Kylie Liang and Theresa Nguyen about the Microsoft Java and Spring integrations, the Java ecosystem, open-source, and more. Kylie (right) on Twitter (@liangkylie) Theresa (left) on Twitter (@RockClimberT) Josh on Twitter (@starbuxman) The "Spring Tips" screencast introducing the Spring and Microsoft Azure integration

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips in which I look at the just-landed-on-master WebMvc.fn programming model in Spring MVC. WebMvc.fn is the functional DSL for Spring MVC that, I'll bet, you didn't know you wanted! This is awesome! speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)