Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another wild-and-wacky week of This Week in Spring! I'm in Johannesburg, South Africa where I both spoke at the SpringOne Tour South Africa event and at the Johannesburg Java User Group. Had tons of fun on safari visiting (from the safety of a good deal of distance and an SUV) the utterly astonishing and beautiful - majestic - wildlife here. I can't stress that last part enough. The animals here are so, so, SO breathtaking. I got as close as I ever want to get to an elephant that was like a small house with eyes. Utterly massive! It towered over buses. When you go…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's episode Josh talks to Microsoft's Kylie Liang and Theresa Nguyen about the Microsoft Java and Spring integrations, the Java ecosystem, open-source, and more.

• Kylie (right) on Twitter (@liangkylie)
• Theresa (left) on Twitter (@RockClimberT)
• Josh on Twitter (@starbuxman)
• The "Spring Tips" screencast introducing the Spring and Microsoft Azure integration

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips in which I look at the just-landed-on-master WebMvc.fn programming model in Spring MVC. WebMvc.fn is the functional DSL for Spring MVC that, I'll bet, you didn't know you wanted! This is awesome!

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Asir Selvasingh | Principal PM Architect | Microsoft – Java on Azure

Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available.

It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation; this includes emergencies, thanks to its geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features.

Spring Cloud Stream provides a binder abstraction for popular message broker implementations. It provides a flexible programming model…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I'll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg and then it's off to to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

LTR: Confluent co-founder Jay Kreps, Tim Berglund, me and Pivotal SVP James Watters

And without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
• Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
• Last week on A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast) I talked to Josh Mckenty about data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
• If you get one blog to read, read this one on the Reactor Debugging Experience. It's amazing!
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
• Want to know what makes Pivotal Cloud Foundry the best place to run Spring Boot applications?
• Focus on Integration Tests Instead of Mock-Based Tests
• A gentle reminder that you should …

Hi Spring fans! In this week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast I, Josh Long, welcome Josh Mckenty - or "better Josh," as I affectionately call him - to the show to discuss Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, Python, microservices, and data sovereignty, among other things.

Josh McKenty (@jmckenty) on Twitter

In the Project Reactor team, we believe that the debugging experience of the libraries you rely upon is as important as, let's say, the feature set or performance.

Today, we're excited to announce two new experimental projects in the Reactor family!

BlockHound - a new kid on the block

One of the most common rookie mistakes is to block Java threads that are supposed to run only non-blocking code (e.g., Schedulers.parallel()).
It is one of the most harmful issues because you may block unrelated processing or even create a deadlock!

Consider the following code:

Flux.range(0, Runtime.getRuntime…

We are pleased to announce the first Milestone of the Spring Cloud Stream Germantown release train - Germantown.M1/2.2.0.M1.

Spring Cloud Stream Germantown 2.2.0.M1 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Some of the highlights:

Improved Home page and User Documentation

Please check out our new home page and user guide

Further functional programming enhancements

We've added additional functional programming enhancements and simplifications where you no longer required to provide @EnableBinding annotation and in some cases you may not need spring.cloud.stream.definition…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Pleasanton, CA, visiting one of Pivotal's large customers, and then tomorrow it's off to New York City for my talk there at the Kafka Summit with the excellent Tim Berglund and James Watters. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg) and then it's off to Mauritius for the DevConf - if you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

Also, totally worth including that on Sunday Spring Framework marked the 15th anniversary of its release on…