Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the second week of 2024, and I am already thinking about 2025! And, a bit more immediatelt than that: the next two weeks. I'll be at both VOXXED DAYS Ticino and VOXXED DAYS CERN, both in Switzerland. If you're about, come out and say hi!

This year is going to be amazing!

And this week's been amazing, too. Let's dive into it.

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to my friend and Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili
• Spring Shell 3.1.7 and 3.2.0 is now available
• Spring Boot Kafka and websockets: a practical approach to real time messaging
• Like Lombok? Me too. But some folks on the Java team will remind you that it's built on intrinsic, unsupported internal bits of the JDK and JRE and that it's doomed to failure without some major changes. Soooo... maybe it's time to start looking for more well-supported alternatives? One such thing that handles a very specific feature of Lombok is Jilt…

Hi, Spring fans! And Happy new year! In this episode I talk to Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili, who helps us ring in the new year!

Hi, Spring fans! Happy New Year! As we step into 2024, full of hope and enthusiasm, welcome to the first installment of This Week in Spring. It's a time for new beginnings and resolutions, and what better way to start than by exploring the ever-evolving world of Spring? I hope your new year celebrations were both fun and memorable, marking the start of a year filled with learning, growth, and innovation in our field.

• This blog looks at the fantastic Spring Modulith project and how it can be used to improve modular applications with Spring.
• The post we just looked at eventually landed on Reddit and prompted a great question about why and how Spring Modulith's event bus helps promote modularity, to which Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm wrote a must-read reply.
• Speaking of Spring Modulith, to celebrate the new year, I looked at Spring's ApplicationEvent subsystem in this installment of Spring Tips.
• An interesting read on the Data Transfer Object pattern and different ways - manual DTO creation, ModelMapper, and Lombok - to create them in a Spring Boot application…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to longtime Spring community legend and Trifork CTO Joris Kuipers. Happy new year!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in Spring. So, here are some of the biggest themes in the year 2023, and then we'll get to our regularly scheduled roundup.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You've no doubt heard all about the incredible leapfrogging advancements being made in the area of artificial intelligence! It's everywhere! Even before…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Cloud Native Whitney Lee about cloud infrastructure, that one trick every dev must know, her new operations-centric gameshow, and more. Happy holidays to y'all!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another oh-so-festive edition of This Week in Spring!

• the Spring Authorization Server 1.2.1, 1.1.14, and 0.4.5, are now available
• Spring AMQP 3.1.1 is now available
• Spring Security 5.8.9, 6.1.6, 6.2.1 are now available
• Spring for Apache Kakfa 3.1.1 is now available
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.1 is now available
• Spring Data 2023.1.1 and 2023.0.7 are now available
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Microcks.io contributors Laurent Broudoux and Yacine-Kheddache
• Digma has a nice blog about the "Spring way" of doing things: 9 ways to improve your Spring Boot skills. It's a good'un!
• Fellow Java Champion and industry legend Simon Martinelli has a nice blog, …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk about the wide world of AI and then discuss microservice testing with Microcks.io contributors and founders Laurent Broudoux and Yacine-Kheddache. This was recorded live from Devoxx BE 2023!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to a new installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right in!

• Laur Spilca and I look at how to ugprade a Spring Security 5.x application to Spring Security 6.x.
• Apache SkyWalking with Sheng Wu and Apache ShardingSphere with Trista Pan
• I looked at all of the new Spring Cloud Leyton releases
• Exciting! Spring Tools 4.21.0 has been released
• Spring Cloud Leyton and I looked at it in detail in this epic mega video of 2.5+ hours duration. Enjoy!
• On last week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast, I was joined by legends Rod Johnson, creator of Spring, and Heather VanCura, VP at Oracle, to talk about career path development
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