Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in beautiful Sao Paolo, Brazil for QCon Sao Paolo then it's off to Devoxx UK in London. As usual, lots of good stuff to get to so let's get to it.

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RELEASE Available!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Engineer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RC2 Released!
• Interesting thread on Reddit.com: Docker and Spring Boot done properly?
• Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface
• Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. This is part 3 of a series, titled "From config server to OAuth2 server (without in-Memory things)"
• JPA or SQL in a Spring Boot Application? Why Not Both?
• DZone have my Spring Tips installment on WebMvc.fn up and …

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud engineeer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma (@olga_maciaszek) about joining the Spring team, testing, consumer driven contracts and consumer driven contract testing, and so much more.

• Olga's Twitter (@olga_maciaszek)

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in colorful Chicago, Illinois, and magnificent Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so excited to be in both places. I'm in Chicago for the GOTO Chicago event, which is always fun, and I'm in Milwaukee for a meetup and, of course, to partake of local delicacies like Kopps, a Cousins sub, and a Spotted Cow beer. Life is great!

Did you see this epic image of the Chicago Lakeshore area I took the other day? Spring is truly in full swing! (I'll ignore the buckets of rain that have been dumped on Chicago and Milwaukee…

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

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RC1.

This is another significant milestone and SBDG 1.0 is less than a week away from final GA.

The new bits, org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.0.0.RC1, are available in the Spring libs-milestone repository, here.

What’s New

This release adds several new features with some significant improvements and important bug fixes:

• Added auto-configuration support to automatically configure a GemfireTemplate for each GemFire/Geode Region defined in the GemFire/Geode cache. Read more

• Added chapter on "Auto-configuration vs. Annotation-based configuration" to the reference guide. Read more

• To compliment the chapter, added a new sample to explain and show Spring Boot’s auto-configuration support for GemFire/Geode in action. Read more

• Fixed a bug in the HTTP client used to push cluster configuration from a client to a standalone GemFire/Geode cluster, or PCC environment, with Security (Auth) enabled. Read more

• Switched Reference Docs to the HTML5 format. See here.

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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-2019-3799: Spring Cloud Config 2.1.2, 2.0.4, 1.4.6 Released
• Spring Cloud Task 2.2.0.M1 is now available
• Flight of the Flux 2 - Debugging Caveats
• Introducing Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker
• Spring Security 5.2.0.M2 Released
• Spring Boot 2.2 M2
• CVE-2019-3801: Java Projects using HTTP to fetch dependencies
• …

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)

Background

When using a microservices architecture to build our applications, it is very common to end up with a pretty complex dependency tree amongst services. If the service down the dependency tree encounters an issue that causes it to start to respond slowly, it ends up causing a set of issues that cascade up the dependency tree. As more and more requests come in to the application, more and more resources may be consumed by waiting for the slow service to respond. Even worse, the additional load being put on the slow service may exacerbate the problem. To help alleviate the effect of…