Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doin' well. Got a lot of exciting stuff to share with you in the near future so check this space! We've got a ton to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm
• Introduce example value object implemented as record. · xmolecules/jmolecules-examples@4e60942
• Spring Shell 2.1.0-M2 is now available
• Spring Tools 4.13.1 released
• the initial Micrometer 2.0.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0 observability is on its way to Spring Boot!
• Additions and Updates to Microsoft Build of #OpenJDK https://t.co/LRWnPdBTIY #OpenJDK https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/additions-and-updates-to-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
• Blog: Spotlight on SIG Multicluster
• Build 33 of Java 18 is available
• Liberica Native Image Kit 22.0.0.2 and 21.3.1 builds are released…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm) about building elegant architectures.

• jMolecules
• Moduliths
• Architecturally Evident Code with jMolecules

Hi, Spring fans! It's a new Lunar year, so that's exciting, and I just celebrated my birthday, and that of my late father, as well. That was exciting. But there was also some bittersweet news. Let's get that out of the way first...

My friend, my hero, Stéphane Maldini, former project lead of Project Reactor and cofounder of the Reactive Streams initiative, passed away two months ago. We in the Java community made him a Java Champion posthumously. We miss him dearly. I think of him when I write reactive code.

Mon ami, mon héros, Stéphane Maldini, ancien lead de l'equipe Reactor et cofondateur…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Framework co-founder and project lead, friend, and all-around amazing human being, Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3.

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already the 25th of the first month of a brand new year!? And we're fast approaching the Lunar New Year, often also called the Chinese New Year, which will arrive next Tuesday. Reunion dinner will be on the 31st of January, and the two weeks of celebration will begin. All that to say that this is my last real chance, speaking I'm sure for the entire Tanzu team, to wish everyone around the planet (billions of people!) who celebrates a very happy Lunar New Year (Mandarin: 新年快乐 (pronounced: xin nian kauai le ) / Cantonese: 新年快乐 (pronounced: san nin fai lok…

This is the fourth article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of:

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to Use Custom ID Generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How Do I Make Bidirectional Relationships?

3. Spring Data JDBC - How Do I Implement Caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root? (this article)

5. Spring Data JDBC - How do I Generate the Schema for my Domain Model?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to returning guest RedHat's Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91) on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka.

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot apps, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. And gain a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments.

Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring…