Hi Spring fans! Happy New Years to you! Here's hoping that your new year is healthier and happier than the last. Did you notice that spiffy new numeral in the date? 2019? Isn't that 'perty?? We made it! (We're now a year away from 2020! I don't know why that year holds so much sway for me...)

Also, this is the eighth anniversary of This Week in Spring! I started this series in the first week of January 2011. We've come a long way since then! This is as good a time as any to remind you that I love this community and I love reading what you're up to. It's a pleasure to learn with you. As always, I'm grateful for any contributions in this humble roundup; just hit me up on Twitter. My Direct Messages are wide-open. Thank you for…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring Cloud integrations for some of Alibaba's open source infrastructure, namely Nacos and Sentinel, and then we look at the Spring Cloud Alibaba Alibaba Cloud integrations for the Alibaba public cloud.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! And welcome to another, very special installment of This Week in Spring where we look not only at the last week's news but also the highlights of the year behind us. 2018 was one of incredible turmult on the technology landscape, one that the Spring community has been able to deftly navigate. In this special year-end wrapup we'll do what we always do - look at the latest and greatest in the ecosystem, but we'll also revisit the things that I, your friendly neighborhood @starbuxman, feel most positively impacted the Spring developer in 2018.

First, of course, let me get the…

It is my pleasure to announce Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SSDG), 2.1.2.RELEASE (official project site).

In addition to several new features and improvements that follow, SSDG 2.1.2.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Framework 5.1.3.RELEASE.

• Spring Data for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire Lovelace-SR3.

• Spring Session 2.1.2.RELEASE.

These bits will be picked up in Spring Boot 2.1.2.RELEASE and are available in Maven Central now.

You can easily switch from Apache Geode to Pivotal GemFire simply by changing your application dependency from

org.springframework.session:spring…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at using the nascent R2DBC abstraction supporting reactive SQL data access and then introduce the Spring Data R2DBC project that supports typical Spring Data idioms like repositories.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just wrapped up the last two talks or workshops I'll do this year. Yesterday we spent four hours looking at Reactive Spring and today we spent four hours looking at Spring Boot and Kotlin. I love doing these sorts of trainings because I really get to dive deep on topics with my audiences. It's, truly, one of the rare pleasures in an otherwise hectic schedule. Needless to say, I am super relaxed and happy as I write this and I hope you are too!

You realize it's already December 18th, 2018, already? Gee time flies when you're having fun! The next installment of This Week in Spring is on the 25th, which, for some in the world, is the holiday Christmas. If that includes you, then let us be the first to …

I’m pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring CredHub 2.0.0, available now in the Spring milestone repository. A GA release of Spring CredHub 2.0.0 will be available in a few weeks.

CredHub

CredHub provides centralized credential management to the Cloud Foundry platform. CredHub implements an HTTP API to securely store, generate, retrieve, and delete credentials of various types.

Spring CredHub provides a Java binding for the CredHub API, making it easy to integrate Spring applications with CredHub.

What’s New

The 2.0.0 release includes the following enhancements:

• Supports CredHub server versions 1.x and 2.x, and the CredHub v1 and v2 APIs

• Provides compatibility with Spring Framework 5.1 and Spring Boot 2.1

• Addition of a reactive interface using Reactor

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Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to use Spring to work with infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

speaker: Josh Long

Performance has always been one of the top priorities of the Spring Engineering team, and we are continually monitoring and responding to changes and to feedback. Some fairly intense and precise work has been done recently (in the last 2-3 years) and this article is here to help you to find the results of that work and to learn how to measure and improve performance in your own applications. The headline is that Spring Boot 2.1 and Spring 5.1 have some quite nice optimizations for startup time and heap usage. Here’s a graph made by measuring startup time for heap constrained apps:

As you…