Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished an online training today, Bootiful Kotlin, for O'Reilly today, and I'm doing another one on the 2nd of August (this Thursday), Reactive Spring, because the demand for the first one was so high. Don't miss it!

We've got a ton of things to look at, so without further ado, let's get to it!

• A friendly reminder that our Spring YouTube channel is awesome! There's so much good stuff and it's easy to get back to it. Just go to spring dot io dot video
• Are you using Spring Cloud Edgware? You should be aware that it's now entering it's EOL period, ending officially August 1st, 2019
• The good Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 GA which contains a ton of new stuff including, task scheduling on PCF, dashboard improvements, Kubernetes support…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco in studio with Spring Security lead Rob Winch filming our new Spring Security Livelessons video. There is so much to cover that, as you can imagine, it's a tall order even for the two of us!

I'm also busily preparing for my talk with my buddy and Googler Ray Tsang at this week's Google Cloud NEXT event on all things Pivotal and Google Cloud. We're going to look at the bootiful Spring Cloud GCP project and, importantly, the new project jointly announced between Google and Pivotal just this morning, KNative, which serves as the platform on which we at Pivotal have built and deployed our Project Riff serverless function-as-a-service runtime. Do not…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already midway through the year?? Stunning.

This week I'm in San Francisco preparing for a video shoot next week and a joint presentatio with Google's Ray Tsang at next week's Google NEXT and tomorrow it's off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON event where I'll be doing a book signing at the O'Reilly booth on Wednesday and I'll be doing a talk, Reactive Spring, on thursday. As usual, if you're in the region and want to chat or grab a Voodoo doughnut, don't hesitate to say hi!

Now, without further…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny (warm!) Los Angeles for the epic SpringOne Tour Los Angeles event and then it's off to Boston for meetings. We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get to it!

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 is out and it has smarter metrics support
• Do you want to begin in open-source or, at least, begin contributing to Spring Boot? We have a ton of open-issues where we'd welcome external contributions!
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 M1 and 1.5.2 released
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.5 released
• Follow the progress on Graal supporting Spring Boot-based applications for native images
• Spring Social End of Life Announcement
• I love this post that looks at how e-Bay does faster integration testing of Spring Boot-based applications
• Check out the migration to v2 in Zipkin 2.10.
• This is an oldie-but-a-goodie that I found myself needing today: it looks at …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm fresh of the amazing Spring Connect São Paulo event and speaking with some customers, and now I'm in beautiful Rio de Janeiro soaking up the winter rays by he beach, connecting with people in the community, and delivering a (virtual!) 2 day live training course for O'Reilly on building cloud-native Java-based applications. In less than two days I'll be home for the first time in almost a month to celebrate the 4th of July. If you're in America, let me be the first to wish you a happy holiday. As usual, we've…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week's been fun! Since we last spoke, I have been in Amsterdam (customers), London (SpringOne Tour London); Paris, Fr (JHipster Conf); Krakow, Pl (Devoxx PL); and now Sao Paulo, Br (Spring Connect SP). It's been a wild ride and it's nice to conclude the journey here in Brazil with one of the largest Java communities on earth.

And, as a cherry on top, there is a ton of great stuff to look at in this week's roundup so let's get to it!

• Spring Data Geode / Gemfire lead John Blum has just announced the Spring Boot integration for Apache Geode and Pivotal Gemfire 1.0.0.M1. It supports look-aside caching using Spring’s Cache Abstraction, system of record (SOR) using Spring Data Repositories and Spring transaction management, distributed compute using function implementation & executions, event stream processing (ESP) using continuous query, domain object versioning/serialization using PDX, Security, authentication / authorization, and TLS using SSL.
• Not one to rest on his laurels, Spring Data Geode/Gemfire lead John Blum …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful and wild This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL (visiting customers); London, UK (for both the London Java Community Java User Group talk and the SpringOne Tour event); Paris, FR (for the first JHipster Conf); Krakow, PL (for Devoxx Poland) and then it's off to Sao Paolo, BR (for the Spring Connect show). If you're in any of those places, say hi!

• Spring Cloud Finchley.RELEASE is available. This is the big one! It's finally here! The final piece of the reactive puzzle. This release culminates an almost year long journey from Spring…

The new Spring Cloud Finchley GA release is jam-packed with good stuff and represents a major milestone in the journey to reactive microservices. I couldn't possibly list everything so I refer you to the fresh-from-the-oven release announcement by Spencer Gibb. Instead, in this post, I want to focus on the road we have taken to reactive Spring Cloud.

We released Spring Framework 5 in September 2017. This was the first release to introduce new Reactive programming support to help build more robust, scalable services. It builds upon the Pivotal Reactor project, our reactive streams compatible reactive runtime. Spring Framework 5 also includes a ton of new features, and I won't try to list them all, either, choosing instead to focus on reactive support here. What is reactive programming? Why does it matter…

Hi Spring fans! We're at the end of another season of Spring Tips. I'll be back in a few months with even more Spring Tips, and we'll continue our journey through aspects of the ecosystem large and small. This season, as with all seasons, has been fun for me to put together. It is a mix of brand new stuff and older stuff that we get to review in a new light. As always, I do these for you and am always eager to hear about what regions of Springdom you'd like illuminated.

Anyway, here's a recap of the things we've looked at in previous installments from seasons 1-4. Enjoy!

Season 1

• Functional Reactive Endpoints with Spring Framework 5.0
• Spring Integration
• The Kotlin Programming Language
• Circuit Breakers
• Spring Aware Beans
• Spring Cloud Stream
• Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Cloud Foundry
• JTA
• Bootiful Dashboards
• Demystifying Bootiful Magic
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Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC for the SpringOne Tour NYC event, then it's off to Amsterdam for some customer visits. It's been a wild week in Spring so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Java Persistence API
• Don't miss this webinar on MongoDB by Spring Data's Christoph Strobl and Mat Keep
• Spring Fu is here and it's awesome! Just check out this example application of the new Kotlin-first microframework for Spring developers. Spring Fu is explicit, not implicit. It's functional, it's fast, it's Spring Fu.
• Don't miss the upcoming Pivotal Paris event with many of the Spring team's local engineers
• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5.1
• Dr. Mark Pollack, not one to rest on his laurels, …