Hi, Spring fans! Today we're excited to announce that Azure Spring Cloud, the runtime for Spring Boot-based applications and Spring Cloud-based microservices jointly developed by Microsoft and Pivotal, is now in public beta. Anybody can try it out now! As customers have moved their workloads to the cloud, we’ve seen a growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices. Microservice-based architectures help improve scalability and velocity, but implementing them can pose challenges. For many Java developers, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud have helped address these…

Hi Spring fans! in today's episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Vlad Mihalcea (@vlad_mihalcea) about Hibernate, databases, optimizations, and more. Vlad on Twitter Vlad's blog

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down November? I can't! (We're just two months away from the new year!) This week I'm in Chicago for meetings, and then - finally - I'm off to San Francisco and see the family. Then, it's off to Europe for the Devoxx Ukraine and Devoxx Belgium events. I can't wait to see everyone there! I'm particularly looking forward to spending Halloween (on the 31st of October) in San Francisco with my kid. The entire family, including the dog, have Halloween costumes. We're ready! (I'm going…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Apache Tomcat, Netty and Spring Framework engineer Violeta Georgieva (@violeta_g_g). Violeta on Twitter (@violeta_g_g) See her keynote with Spencer Gibb at SpringOne Platform 2019 I love this talk, Benefits of Reactive Programming with Reactor and Spring Boot 2 Project Reactor

Hi, Spring fans! What a week! I've just returned from Prague, the Czech Republic, where I was for the epic Geecon Prague 2019 event. (Thanks for voting my talk on Reactive Spring the #1 talk, Prague!). Now I'm in Nantes, France, the DevFest Nantes show. I'd never been to Prague and I've never been to Nantes. So how's that for cool first-time appearances in one week? I'll be speaking about testing here. Tonight I fly to Paris, Fr, for customer meetings. Then I fly on Thursday to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Joker conference, where I'll be presenting on testing and I'll be co-presenting with…

Last year right in the middle of SpringOne Platform 2018, I posted the first post in this series, _ The Reactive Revolution at SpringOne Platform 2018 (part 1/N)_, which looked at some of the big features we'd just dropped at SpringOne Platform 2018. I wanted to follow up and revisit that blog and the concepts I'd introduced last year, and show just how far we've come in the intervening year. TL;DR: things are much easier! R2DBC Last year, we announced our work on trying to support a standard for reactive SQL data access with a new project called R2DBC. Traditional approaches to SQL data…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rafael Winterhalter (@rafaelcodes) about Bytebuddy; Mockito; the JVM; bytecode; Oslo, Norway; and so much more. ByteBuddy Mockito JavaZone

Hi, Spring fans! WHEW! What a week! Last week was the insane SpringOne Platform 2019 event, from which I am still recovering! Then I flew home, hosted Spring team member and Micrometer lead and friend Tommy Ludwig in San Francisco, and prepared to fly out for meetings and user group appearances on Monday (in Stuttgart, Germany) and Tuesday (in Amsterdam). I prepared, and got into the Uber going to San Francisco airport when I got a call from my brother saying my 81-year-old dad wasn't doing well (thanks to everyone for the well-wishes!) and was rushed to the hospital. I had to, regretfully…

Hi, Spring fans! In this SpringOne Platform 2019 episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) interviews Spring mad scientist Andy Clement (@andy_clement) on AspectJ, SpEL, Eclipse, the new Graal native image feature, being an Iron-Man triathlete, and more. Andy Clement on Twitter the Spring Expression Language AspectJ the Graal native image feature

It's here it's finally here! My favorite time of the year! Happy SpringOne Platform week! This week I'm in amazing Austin, TX talking to anybody who wants to about all things Spring. There have been a ton of amazing things announced at this show but one thing I've been excited to share with y'all is that we just announced the new Azure Spring Cloud runtime. (More on that in the links below) I've been busy! I'm doing one talk with Microsoft on Azure Spring Cloud, and another with Okta / Google on simplifying the dev lifecycle. Also, I'm hosting the keynote tomorrow morning. So much to do, so…