Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, and Happy Devnexus 2025 to those who celebrate! That's right sports fans, I'm off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia later today for Devnexus, one of the world's largest annual gatherings of Java community and luminaries alike. I'll be doing a talk on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot as well as another talk looking at Spring AI with the legendary Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring AI. And, of course, I'll be soaking up all the other talks by Spring luminaries like Glenn Renfro, Jonatan Ivanov, Ken Kousen, Ryan Baxter…

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! Later today I'll board a plane for magnificent Montreal, Canada for the amazing Confoo conference! I'm super excited!

• Good news everybody! Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2 is now available!
• In last week's installment of the Bootiful Podcast, I talked to BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis
• Spring Boot 3.4.3 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.3.9 available now
• Spring AMQP 4.0 M1 available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.3 and 3.2.7 are now available
• Spring Integration 6.5 Milestone 2 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.5.0-M1, 1.4.2, and 1.3.5 are available now
• Using RAG and VectorStore in Spring AI
• Accelerate Spring AI Development with effortless privacy from CodeGate
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Hi, Spring and JDK fans! In this week's episode I talk to BellSoft developer advocate Catherine Edelveis

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Hi, Spring fans! It's the week of February 18th, 2025, and you know what that means? ConFoo and Devnexus are nearly here! Next week, I'll be traveling to amazing Montreal, Canada, to speak at the ConFoo show for an amazing community, poutine, and technology! Then, a few days later, it's off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia, where I'll be doing a workshop, a talk on Spring AI with Dr. Mark Pollack, and my usual Spring Boot latest-and-greatest talk. If you're going to either of those shows (why not both?), please don't hesitate to say "salut" or "hello"!

There's a lot of great stuff in this week's…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

• How to create dynamic SQL queries with Spring Boot
• I love this article looking at the amazing new features in Spring Application Advisor
• a lovely video by the amazing Greg Turnquist: Using JdbcTemplate with CockroachDB
• Spring AI: a Doot to GenAI heaven for Java developers - yup!
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Just Use Postgres!" author Denis Magda
• I've got this queueud up: Spring AI Masterclass with Spring Boot..
• ..and this one: Spring AI with DeepSeek R1
• a gentle reminder that there are guides on …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Java and distributed database ninja Denis Magda about his new book, "Just Use Postgres!", which looks at how to wield Postgres for a variety of use cases that an application developer should know.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term!

Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• Thanks very much to the San Francisco JUG for letting Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb and I take a little stroll down memory lane, and revisit at the first 10 whole years of Spring Boot. This was a ton of fun!
• our friend, Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg, has a really crazy example of a Spring Boot and Vaadin application that uses Spring AI MCP to update itself!
• Bellsoft's Catherine Edelveis has a nice video on Dockerizing your Spring Boot applications
• do you ever want an exploding code minigame from within your IntelliJ IDEA? there's a plugin for that!
• …