Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it.

• Fred Melo is one of Pivotal's brightest and when he talks about data, people listen. Here's your chance to watch his SpringOne Platform talk on data microservices
• The RabbitMQ Team has been busy! The RMQ Java Client has some very nice new (non-breaking) new features in Metrics, logging and Java NIO, among other things.
• Expanding on the metrics support in RMQ Java Client 4.0, the Rabbit team blogs about using JMX, Spring Boot Actuator and Coda Hale's awesome DropWizard Metrics library.
• I liked this SpringOne Platform talk, from Confluent's Joe Kutner, I Can't Believe it's not a Queue: using Apache Kafka with Spring…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to process large amounts of sequential data using Spring Batch.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very busy week and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• first, the big news: Spring Boot 1.5 has just been released! The new release improves the integration with Cloud Foundry, features Spring Data Ingalls support, LDAP support, a loggers endpoint, and Apache Kafka auto-configuration support. Get started with Spring Boot now!
• Spring Data guru March Paluch put together a nice look at Spring Data Ingalls. The new release is packed with lots of great features including a 20-70% performance improvement, event publication for aggregate roots, improved pagination and so much more! Read the post!
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data Ingalls has gone GA! Hurray! See the release post for more…

As you probably have seen, we have just announced the GA release of Spring Data release train Ingalls. As the release is packed with way too many features to cover them in a release announcement, I would like to use this post to take a deeper look at the changes and features that come with the 15 modules on the train.

Housekeeping

A very fundamental change in the release train’s dependencies is the upgrade to Spring Framework 4.3 (currently 4.3.6) as the baseline. Other dependency upgrades are mostly driven by major version bumps of the underlying store drivers and implementations that need to…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the Spring Data Couchbase support in Spring Boot 1.4.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it: we've got an fresh batch of both new Spring Cloud software from the team and microservice themed S1P 2016 replays from Pieter Humphrey this week, so fasten your seat belt!

• Spring Cloud Data Flow product manager Sabby Anandan put together a great post on the Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1 release
• Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry lead Eric Bottard just announced the latest release supporting memory optimizations, Maven cache and disk optimizations, improved error handling, and task support.
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn.SR2 and Chelsea.M1
• Spring Integration Java DSL lead and all around great guy Artem Bilan just announced
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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to get into this week - even more so than usual! So, let's get into it!

Starting to put together topics for the next season of Spring Tips: what would you like to see discussed?

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) January 13, 2017

This week there are a lot of great SpringOne Platform 2016 replays available online thanks to our very own Pieter Humphrey!

• Don't miss Stéphane Maldini's SpringOne Platform (S1P) 2016 talk introducing Reactor 3.0
• or this S1P 2016 talk by Sebastien Deleuze and Stephane Maldini on reactive programming options for the JVM (introducing Reactor and RxJava, among others)
• Yahoo! Marcin just tweeted some exciting news: Pact support has been added to Spring Cloud Contract
• Noriaki Tatsumi ( from Capital One) gave a nice S1P 2016 talk on operating a high velocity organization with Spring Cloud
• Google's Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen put together a nice talk on using gRPC for Spring Developers
• in this S1P 2016 talk, Ben Hale, Paul Harris and Stephane Maldini introduce some …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and New York City talking to developers and toiling on the final edits to the O'Reilly book Cloud Native Java (almost there!). Also, marketing ninja Pieter Humphrey is ramping up the S1P 2016 replays, so fasten your seat belt and check the S1P 2016 YouTube playlist for the most current releases. We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Task ninja Glen Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.1 with a fast following, bug-fix only, 1.1.2 release.
• our latest and greatest Spring Boot team member Madhura Bhave just announced Spring Boot 1.5.0.RC1
• Spring Integration guru Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M2
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0 complete with a lot of niceties and - in particular a feature I've wanted forever - an easy way to build instances of the more sophisticated ItemReader and ItemWriter intances, including the FlatFileItemReader…

Update: a comprehensive Spring Boot + Kotlin tutorial is now available.

Following the Kotlin support on start.spring.io we introduced a few months ago, we have continued to work to ensure that Spring and Kotlin play well together. One of the key strengths of Kotlin is that it provides a very good interoperability with libraries written in Java. But there are ways to go even further and allow writing fully idiomatic Kotlin code when developing your next Spring application. In addition to Spring Framework support for Java 8 that Kotlin applications can leverage like functional web or bean…