Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment we talk Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security and founder of the exciting new project Spring Boot Testjars.

Front end development these days is dominated by large JavaScript client side frameworks. There are plenty of good reasons for that, but it can be very inefficient for many use cases, and the framework engineering has become extremely complex. In this article, I want to explore a different approach, one that is more efficient and more flexible, built from smaller building blocks, and well-suited to server side application frameworks like Spring (or similar tools in a range of server side languages). The idea is to embrace the concept of hypermedia, imagine how a next-generation browser would…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be!

• Do this first: we need your help! Please answer some questions in our State of Spring survey!
• Join me for a look at the latest-and-greatest, chronicling how I got started with Spring Boot in 2024!
• Spring AI 0.8.1, with new support for Google's Gemini, Mistral AI, QDrant vector store, and improvements across the board, has been released!. Also: it should work with AOT! (let us know if it doesn't!)
• Cristian Schuszter sat down with me for a discussion about CERN, what they do, their use of Java and Spring Boot, and so much more in this installment of A Bootiful Podcast.
• Speaking of Spring AI, just last week they announced easy, portable support for function callbacks…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long looks at how to use Spring Batch's remote partitioning support to easy-button your data processing scale out strategies.

#postgresql #ai #datascience #data #springboot #java #java21

NB: the code is here on my Github account: github.com/joshlong/bootiful-spring-boot-2024-blog.

Hi, Spring fans! I'm Josh Long, and I work on the Spring team. I'm excited to be keynoting and giving a talk at Microsoft's JDConf this year. I'm a Kotlin GDE and a Java Champion, and I'm of the opinion that there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer. I say that fully aware of where we stand in the span of things today. It's been 21+ years since the earliest releases of the Spring Framework and 11+ years since the earliest releases of Spring Boot. This year marks 20 years…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. (This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!).

Don't forget to help us out with the State of Spring Survey

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we continue our look at the venerable Spring Authorization Server, this time looking at how to configure persistence and durability for various aspects of the system

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication.

Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function Calling support to its cutting-edge models.

Function Calling is a feature that facilitates the integration of LLM with external tools and APIs. It enables the language model to request the execution of client-side functions, allowing it to access necessary run-time information or perform tasks…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll." Well, you won't find that here, no way, no how! There are no memes here. Well, not often, anyway. No, this is a place for personal growth, reflection, and contemplation on the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Spring.

• I did an article for The New Stack looking at the New Relic Developer Survey report: We Can Have Nice Things
• Our very own Jason Konicki has a fabulous post about the amazing Spring projects that were released in February - there are a ton! Check them out!
• The Spring Framework lead has a nice blog detailing the expected support timeline for Spring Framework 6.0x and 5.3x, both of which are at least a year old already.
• Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan has a nice post introducing the Spring Functions Catalog.
• In last week's episode of Spring Tips, I continued our series introducing the Spring Authorization Server, this time applying it to support and secure single-page applications and messaging flows. Stay tuned for the last installment, landing tomorrow - Wednesday, the 6th of March, 2024…