Hi, Spring fans! In this special midweek installment I (Josh Long) correct a mistake I made last week when I inadvertently released the episode featuring open-web legend Dion Almaer with the interview I conducted with the inspirational and oh-so-amazing Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine. This is the actual episode with Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) who is known for so many contributions to the Java ecosystem and beyond. I know him as a former editor in chief of TheServerSide.com, but you may know him for his work championing the open web at Palm, Walmart, and Google, and many more.

Prologue

Uniformity of data across systems and platforms is a singular and noble purpose of Cloud Event specification. With its growing adoption, the hope is that the developers and architects would no longer have to worry about how to deal with various events coming from different systems and platforms. . . But the point of this post is not to re-litigate or re-justify Cloud Events. A simple Google search renders quite a few points for you to read to help the "Why Cloud Events?" question. The goal of this and subsequent posts on the subject is to share some ideas and the work we've been…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already past the first week of the last month of the year? I can't even believe that it's already been a week since we last congregated here, for this humble column, let alone almost a year since 2019! What a whirlwind.

We've got a ton of stuff to catch up on so let's get to it!

• 10 Best Java Frameworks to Use in 2020 [Updated]
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Heinz Kabutz
• How to figure out which Spring Boot versions are compatible with which Spring Cloud versions
• J-Fall Virtual 2020: Josh Long - Keynote: Cloud Native Java, Redux - YouTube
• Micrometer's RSocket-based Prometheus proxy version 1.3.0 has been released. This upgrades to RSocket 1.1, Spring Boot 2.4, and Java 11 runtime for the proxy container image. It's also using Paketo buildpacks to build the container now.
• Spring Boot can create a JFR dump
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M6 (aka Ilford) Is Available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long talks to his hero, longtime friend (9+ years and counting!), inspiration and a person who has made the JVM a better place to deploy software and the JVM community a better place for people to build software through his JavaSpecialists newsletter and through his amazing content: Dr. Heinz Kabutz. 'Nuff said. Enjoy!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it's already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies... or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
• …

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0 and 2.6.4

While the release 2.6.4 has the bug fixes, the 2.7.0 has the following updates along with the bug fixes and improvements :

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3. Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.5 release.

Wavefront integration

Spring Cloud Data Flow dashboards for streams, tasks, SCDF server components and Kafka Streams dashboard are available in VMware Wavefront dashboards for integrations. The configurations required to set up the wavefront integration are simplified at the SCDF as well. More information on this can be found here…

Spring Data 2020.0.0 ships with Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1. This release ships with numerous enhancements that refine existing functionality and introduce support for selected Cassandra 4 features:

• Reactive auditing
• Reactive SpEL support in @Query query methods.
• Configuration of the keyspace per Statement through CqlTemplate and QueryOptions.
• Revised CqlOperations with new queryForStream(…) methods returning a Stream with transparent pagination.
• DataClassRowMapper to map Cassandra results to data classes via constructor creation/bean properties

Reactive Auditing

Reactive auditing is enabled by annotating your configuration class with @EnableReactiveCassandraAuditing. Registering a bean that implements ReactiveAuditorAware…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Swarna Podila (@skpodila) about Cloud Foundry, networks and Hashicorp, among other things.

Happy Thanksgiving!

• Hashicorp Cloud Platform
• Waypoint
• Cloud Foundry

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States and I feel like I've got a ton of things and a ton more people for which and for whom to be thankful, and a huge, constant part of that is you, dear community. I say this in this column all the time, but you - the community - are the main reason that Spring is worth doing. I know that I speak for the entire Spring team when I say: thank you! And, speaking for myself, I hope that, whether you're in the US celebrating Thanksgiving or anywhere else, that you…