Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring legend Greg Turnquist (@gregturn) about Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, CI, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's been exciting and only going to get more exciting as the days carry on.

Tomorrow, the 24th of February, I'll be participating in a panel with Angie Jones, Daniel Bryant, Stefania Chaplin, and Jonathan Harris on how to debug and fix issues so that it doesn't block production.

Tomorrow, I'll_also_ be streaming on Twitch.tv around noon PST. Join us!

Alright, without any further ado, this week's roundup! Enjoy!

• Announcing Spring Cloud for Kubernetes
• As part of that release, I put together a Spring Tips video/tutorial (1h40m!) that introduces the open-source Spring Cloud Gateway and features interviews with Spring Cloud Gateway creator and Spring Cloud cofounder Spencer Gibb as well as Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling. Enjoy!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Gitlab's Reshmi Krishna on the developer lifecycle
• Spring Boot 2.3.9 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.4.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.5.0-M2 available now
• Spring Data 2021.0 M4, 2020.0 SR5, Neumann SR7 and Moore SR13 released
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, I revisit Spring Cloud Gateway.

Here's what's inside:

Intro

11:12​ Have your cake and Eat it too with an API Gateway

Basics

00:11:37​ Get to Know Your New Gateway 00:21:18​ The Observable Gateway
00:22:39​ Meet The Supporting Characters
00:24:30​ Reactive Data For The Demo
00:28:10​ A Reactive WebSocket Endpoint 00:31:00​ Reactive HTTP Endpoint

Behind the Source with Spring Cloud co-founder, lead, and Spring Cloud Gateway creator Spencer Gibb

00:33:00​ Spencer Gibb

Service Discovery

37:59​ Introducing Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka 40:4…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Gitlab's Reshmi Krishna (@reshmi9k) about the developer lifecycle, cloud-native computing, working at Gitlab and Pivotal, and more.

• the Gitlab handbook
• Gitlab's Twitter account

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week is fixing to be a really fun one!

I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG tonight. It's free, online, virtual, etc. Join us, won't you?

I'll also be speaking at the legendary Devnexus event this week. Do not miss that. Or the show. It's free, being held virtually, online, and a ton of us from the Spring team will be there.

We've got a lot of good stuff to get to this week so let's dive in!

• My buddy, the amazing and inestimable, Tanzu observability engineer Tommy Ludwig, and I wrote a little blog, Metrics and Tracing: Better Together. It's chock full of Tommy's brilliance and my terrible terrible puns. Don't miss it!
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Doordash tech lead manager Zohaib Sibte Hassan on Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, and more
• An Open Source Approach to Decentralized Transactions
• This looks cool: a way to inspect RSocket frames from within Chrome
• Musings on Supply Chain Security
• Paving the Road to Modern Apps, by VMware Tanzu
• Philip Riecks has an interesting new tutorial, Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Doordash tech lead manager Zohaib Sibte Hassan (@zohaibility) about Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, organizational scalability, and more at Doordash.

• the Doordash Engineering blog
• A GRPC Spring Boot Starter
• the Gitter chat for R2DBC
• Zohaib on LinkedIn

This blog post was co-authored by our very own, always excited about all things Spring, Josh Long.

You've decided to put your talents to work in the service of humanity and - in the age of the pandemic, and having no other real skills to speak of besides software - you're going to build a web service that people can check for the availability of the highly vaunted Playstation 5 video game console, on your new website, www.ps5ownersarebetterpeople.com.net.

It All Started so Auspiciously...

Go to the trusty Spring Initializr and generate a new project (called service) using the latest version of Java ( natch! ) and add the Reactive Web, Wavefront, Lombok, Sleuth, and Actuator dependencies to the project. Click the Generate button to download a .zip…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

I'm just about to give a 2h presentation for the OOP conference. It's live. It'll be fun. Join us?

How've you been? You realize it's already the second week of February? Chinese New Year, a holiday celebrated by more than two billion people, begins on the 12th of February. So, seeing as how we won't get to talk again until after, let me wish everyone who celebrates: 新年快乐!

• A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka
• Alibaba's Jacky Chan has put together an awesome project that does client-side load balancing with Spring Cloud, but based on RSocket - very convenient!
• Demystifying Spring Cloud Stream producers with Apache Kafka partitions
• 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware
• A New Yeoman code generator for Spring Boot (that isn't the amazing JHipster?). Looks interesting...
• A Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, part 2
• A Spring Boot starter for the Doma mapping framework
• A great blog, Handle R2DBC in Spring Projects…

Whether you’re a long time user of Spring Boot or just getting started with it, there are numerous resources out there that you can leverage. Knowing what’s available for your specific need is not always obvious and this blog post is aimed toward helping you to navigate through these resources.

Learning

Reference Documentation

As a software developer, you probably already know that reading any project’s documentation can help you save a lot of time and effort. The Spring Boot reference documentation is a comprehensive document containing everything you need to know about Spring Boot. It is available in multiple formats, multi-page HTML, single-page HTML, and PDF. You can choose the one that suits your needs. The documentation is versioned, with current pointing to the latest GA release. Be sure…