Mark Pollack

Mark Pollack

Mark Pollack is a software engineer with Pivotal and is the lead of the Spring Cloud Data Flow project. He has been a contributor to many Spring projects dating back to the Spring Framework in 2003 as well as founding the Spring.NET and Spring Data projects.

Recent Blog posts by Mark Pollack

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5.0 Released

Releases | May 16, 2018 | ...
The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.5.0 GA release. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Here are the highlights: UI Improvements Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Stream 2.0, and Spring Cloud Task 2.0 Support Updated Application Starters Metrics Improvements Nested splits for Composed Tasks Kubernetes Improvements Updated File Ingest sample UI Improvements We have continued to improve the UI/UX of the Dashboard. We hope that you will immediately notice an overall lighter weight design. The Tasks tab has been rewritten to match the…

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5 RC1 released

Releases | May 09, 2018 | ...
The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.5.0 RC1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Here are the highlights: General Improvements Switch to Hikari connection pool and restructure code to use fewer connections. Several bug fixes in underling deployer libraries. Dashboard Editing a created/deployed stream is now possible from the Stream Builder. The application and deployment properties can be edited and re-deployed. The App version can be switched, too. A new paginator component is added to all the list page…

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5 M1 released

Releases | April 20, 2018 | ...
The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.5.0 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Here are the highlights: UI Improvements Spring Boot & Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Support Nested splits for Composed Tasks Metrics Collector 2.0 M1 Stream Application Starters Darwin M1 release train Support for deploying to multiple Kubernetes clusters UI Improvements We have continued to improve the UI/UX of the Dashboard. You will immediately notice an overall lighter weight design. The Tasks tab has been rewritten to match the UX…

Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 GA Released

Releases | February 05, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 GA Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment. The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires. Release Highlights: Introduction of Flyway to manage schema along with various schema tweaks. Option to delete a release along with…

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.RC1 released

Releases | January 24, 2018 | ...
We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.RC1 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Release Highlights Feature toggle for Skipper To simplify the overall experience of opting into using Skipper to deploy streams, a feature toggle provides you the ability to switch between skipper mode and the previous 'classic' mode. The feature toggle is used in both the Shell and the Server. The default value is to use the 'classic' non-skipper mode. To enable skipper mode, pass in the…

Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 RC1 Released

Releases | January 19, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 RC1. Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment. The 1.0 RC1 release fixes several bugs and introduces a some new features. OAuth Security support. Release install, upgrade, and rollback workflow managed using the Spring StateMachine project. REST API improvements. Database…

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry 1.3.0.M3 released

Engineering | December 01, 2017 | ...
We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry. The Getting Started Guide is the best place to start kicking the tires. Release Highlights Stream updates, a JavaDSL, and the complete port of the UI to the Angular 4.0 stack are some of the main highlights. More information on release highlights can be found in the release blog for the core Data Flow project. Of note for the Cloud Foundry server is an upgrade to v2.23.0 of the cf-java client library and setting the default health check to be http instead of port. You can now also specify the…

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M3 released

Releases | November 29, 2017 | ...
We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects. Local Server: Getting Started Guide Release Highlights Stream updates and rollback A streaming data pipeline orchestrated as a series of microservice applications has always been the core value of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s design. In 1.3.0.M3 we have provided the ability to update sources, processors, and sinks independently without having to undeploy and redeploy the entire stream. The stream update feature is implemented by delegating the deployment process to a new Spring…

Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2 Released

Releases | November 21, 2017 | ...
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2. Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment. The 1.0 M2 release fixes several bugs and introduces a few new features. Support for Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and HSQLDB databases. Improved support for upgrading applications that use an HTTP location for the…

Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M1 Released

Releases | October 30, 2017 | ...
On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M1. Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment. The main features in Skipper 1.0 M1 are: Define multiple platform accounts where Spring Boot applications can be deployed. Supported platforms are Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Substitute variables in Mustache…

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