Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the Tanzu legend Chris Sterling, who works on making Spring an even more valuable part of a platform. (This episode was recorded live at the epic SpringOne 2024 event!)

How can Spring Boot developers improve the runtime efficiency of their applications with minimal constraints in order to enjoy those benefits on most applications? The answer is the CDS support introduced by Spring Boot 3.3 which allows you to start your Spring Boot applications faster and consume less memory. It is based on the foundation introduced by Spring Framework 6.1 that I presented a few months ago.

A key point is that this new CDS support provides a different value proposition compared to the GraalVM native image support: the improvements you get with CDS are less dramatic than with…

Hi, Spring fans, from the expo hall of SpringOne at VMware Explore 2024! There's a livestream of some of the key talks - register and watch for free now at SpringOne.io. Right now I'm hanging out at the expo hall manning a booth and doing demos to the hoardes of people streaming by, but I'll be talking a bit later, too, which, again, you can watch online at SpringOne.io.

As you can imagine, in the runup to SpringOne, there are a ton of exciting bits to look into, so let's!

• Spring AI 1.0.0 M2 is available now!
• Spring AI support for NVIDIA LLM API
• Good news everybody! Spring Shell 3.3.7, 3.3.2, and 3.4.0 M1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.3 M2 and 1.2.3 are available
• [Spring Boot CVE fixes](https://spring.io/blog/2024/08/23/spring-boot-releases-fix-for-cve-2024-38807
• check out this nice blog looking at structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4
• Spring Boot 3.4 M2 now available
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, i talked with Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg
• Spring Boot 3.3.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 3.2.9 is now available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Vaadin developer advocacy legend Marcus Hellberg about the lates-and-greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Spring.

Logging is a long established part of troubleshooting applications and one of the three pillars of observability, next to metrics and traces. No one likes flying blind in production, and when incidents happen, developers are happy to have log files. Logs are often written out in a human-readable format.

Structured logging is a technique where the log output is written in a well-defined, often machine-readable format. This format can be fed into log management systems and enables powerful search and analytics capabilities. One of the most commonly used formats for structured logging is JSON.

With Spring Boot 3.4, structured logging is supported out of the box. It supports the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and Logstash…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment in This Week in Spring! And happy week-before-SpringOne! I'm so excited I could spit! As you might imagine, AI, cloud native architecture, and so much more are top-of-mind. I love AI, and all its many applications. In that spirit, let's get ChatGPT to write a little poem for us!

'Twas the week before SpringOne, and all through Las Vegas, Java devs were arriving, their excitement contagious. Spring Boot and Kotlin, all polished with care, In hopes that new features soon would be there. Workshops and sessions, each bright in their light, Promising…

Spring AI now supports NVIDIA's Large Language Model API, offering integration with a wide range of models. By leveraging NVIDIA's OpenAI-compatible API, Spring AI allows developers to use NVIDIA's LLMs through the familiar Spring AI API.

We'll explore how to configure and use the Spring AI OpenAI chat client to connect with NVIDIA LLM API.

• The demo application code is available in the nvidia-llm GitHub repository.
• The SpringAI / NVIDIA integration documentation.

Prerequisite

• Create NVIDIA account with sufficient credits.
• Select your preferred LLM model from NVIDIA's offerings. Like the meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct in the screenshot below.
• From the model's page, obtain the API key for your chosen model.
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Gradle and Develocity engineer and Spring community legend Eric Haag