Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Manchester, UK, for an appearance at the Manchester JUG and then it's off to London, UK, for some customer visits and the epic Devoxx UK event. This time next week I'll be in Denver, USA, for the SpringOne Tour event. If you're in any of these places, as usual, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)

• Missed an installment of This Week in Spring? Well, have no fear there's now a monthly aggregation of the weekly aggregation! Here's the April edition
• Dormain Drewitz swoops in for the kill with this epic announcement: Pivotal and Confluent are teaming up to make Pivotal's Kubernetes environment, PKS, the best place to run Confluent Kafka
• Spring Framework luminary Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework .3.17 and 5.0.6
• Spring Data legend Mark Paluch just announced the release of Spring Data Ingalls SR12 and Kay SR7. These releases are, as usual, packed with new releases!
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella has just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RELEASE…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Micrometer metrics collection and publication facade. Micrometer is a new project from Pivotal that underpins the Actuator metrics endpoint in Spring Boot 2.0.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the last week I went from Germany (for JAXON) to Linz, Austria (for DevOne) and Vienna, Austria (for a meetup) and now I'm in Melbourne, Australia (after a 10 hour stopover in Bangkok, Thailand), for the VOXXED Melbourne event. As usual, if you're around I'd love to hear from you!

Without further ado, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Pivotal just turned 5! Happy birthday to us!
• Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley RC1. The new release is packed with all sorts of new stuff and represents one of hopefully the final releases before Spring Cloud Finchley before it's GA
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips I looked at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine
• the RabbitMQ 3.7.5-beta2 is now available.
• I really like this Chinese-language post on whether Spring Boot and Spring Cloud …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another incredible installment of all that's fit to tweet, blog, record and print about Spring! It's been an insane week! Since our last installment I was in Paris, FR, for the epic Devoxx FR conference where I spoke at a meetup hosted by ZenikaIT, gave a workshop on Reactive Cloud Native Java and co-presented a talk on Reactive Spring with the one-and-only Juergen Hoeller. I jumped off stage and ran to the airport to board a flight leaving 150 minutes later headed back to the US!

Now, you may have heard that Pivotal, the company that leads and/or at least…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the many facets of Redis, the distributed data structure server. Spring supports Redis through the Spring Cache abstraction, Spring Session, the Spring message-listener container abstraction, and through the Spring Data Redis module.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France and I'll be in Mainz, Germany, next week for JAX and Linz, Austria for the DevOne event. If you're in any of these places then don't hesitate to reach out!

We've got so much to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Task and Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RC1
• Artem Bilan looks at what's new in the Spring Cloud GCP 1.0.0.M3 release.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced Spring Tool Suite 3.9.4
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb is cooking up a very interesting project to ensure code-formatting consistency for all Spring Boot projects. Interesting! (and still super early days yet..) Think of this as the Java and Spring Boot equivalent of gofmt.
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Lovelace M2. This release ships with updates for all store modules that contain new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Notable changes include: MongoDB 3.6 support for Change Streams, $jsonSchema, and Client Sessions (in preparation for MongoDB Transactions); Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and Tuple Types, along with newly introduced Lifecycle Callbacks; Upgrade to Apache Solr 7; Improved Connection Handling…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Atlanta, Indianapolis and Cincinnati! I'll be speaking at the Atlanta, GA Spring Meetup on Tuesday the 10th where I'll be looking about all things new, bootiful and cloud-native including reactive programming, Spring Web Flux, Spring Cloud Finchley, Spring Cloud Function and Project Riff. Then it's off to Indianapolis where I'll be doing the same talk on Thursday the 12th.

What a crazy week it's been! There's so much to get to this week. I want to call out, first, that there are some CVEs out there and if you haven't already, you should be updating urgently…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the reactive Cloud Foundry Java client. We'll see how to use it support applications that know how to deploy themselves into a cloud target.

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment (the first of 2018!) of Spring Tips we look at stream processing in Spring Boot applications with Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Streams and the Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Streams binder.