Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm home, in San Francisco, California, in the US, where the fears around Coronavirus have heated up and made things problematic for those of us who travel. It looks like, at least for the immediate future, I'll be - basically - grounded. Stay safe out there, my friends.

The good news is that this will let me get to a ton more other things like the blogs, A Bootiful Podcast and Spring Tips and of course my Reactive Spring book. And of course, we've got a ton of things to get to today in today's installment of This Week in Spring, so…

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In the diverse world of microservices, HTTP is the undisputed leader in agent-to-agent communications. It’s mature, well established, and everywhere. But in some cases, HTTP request-response can be cumbersome. What if you need communication patterns beyond traditional request-response, such as fire-and-forget or streaming? And what if you want to send messages in either direction?

With HTTP, there are ways to achieve this but it’s not what the protocol was built for. Many of the solutions come with additional tradeoffs or shortcomings. Plus, here’s no rulebook that…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud team member lead Marcin Grzejszczak.

• Spring Cloud Contract
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Marcin on Twitter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to look at Alibaba's Apache RocketMQ. We've talked some about Alibaba in Spring Tips before. Check out the earlier Spring Tips installment in which we explore some of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Running Apache RocketMQ

In order to use Apache RocketMQ, you'll need to follow the steps in the RocketMQ quickstart. This Spring Tips installment introduces Apache RocketMQ, originally a technology developed and used internally at Alibaba and proven in the forge of 11/11, the famous Chinese sales holiday, sort of like "Cyber Monday," or "Black Friday," in the US. Sort of like that, but waaaaaay bigger. In 2019, Alibaba (alone, with no other e-commerce engines involved), made almost $40 billion USD in 2…

Hi, Spring fans! This week I am in delicious Philadelphia enjoying the amazing food (scrapple! TastyKakes!) and hanging out with amazing customers using VMWare and Spring to great effect. It's been a busy week since we last talked: I released a new Spring Tips installment, wrote a bunch of blogs, recorded a new podcast, and published a new podcast installment. We've got a lot to get to today so let's get to it!

• In this first installment of Spring Tips, season 7, I look at RSocket and Spring Security
• Spring Framework 5.2.4 and 5.1.14 available now
• Netflix Built a Spring Application Generator to Boost Dev Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.3.0.M2 Available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.3.0.M2 Available
• Netflix Built an Application Generator to Boost Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more
• You should probably check this video on …

If you watch Taylor Wicksell of Netflix's SpringOne Platform keynote you can’t help but be blown away by the sheer productivity of their engineering team. Last year, over 300 Spring-based apps went into production – an incredible achievement.

What Can Your Enterprise Learn From Netflix?

At Netflix, Taylor and his Java Platform team own the Java developer experience (DevEx). Taylor’s team has one mission: to help Netflix's engineers stay productive – delivering great code at great velocity. It’s a mission that is clearly proving successful.

Top of Taylor’s list of productivity secrets is Application Generators. Netflix found that developers adopt platforms far quicker when everything they need to get started is right there, at their fingertips. Application generators help developers to get started quickly by providing useful guide rails that reduce toil and ease their burden. Application generators also encourage common approaches to common problems – particularly useful if you have lots of teams creating microservices…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to friends - Mercy Ma (马昕曦), Andy Shi (施孜海), and Jim Fang (方剑) - from Alibaba. These engineers work on Spring Cloud Alibaba, some of the open source infrastructure coming out of Alibaba designed to support Spring applications running at Alibaba, and more.

• The Reactive Foundation
• My Reactive Spring webinar series
• Apache RocketMQ
• Spring Cloud for Alibaba
• My Spring Tips video introducing some of Spring Cloud Alibaba

Hi, Spring fans! In this first installment of Spring Tips season 7, we look at how to lock down RSocket services with Spring Security.

By Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at using Spring Security and RSocket together. RSocket is a payload and platform agonostic wire protocol developed by engineers at Netflix and Facebook that supports the Reactive Streams concepts on the wire. The protocol is a stateful-connection centric protocol: a requester node connects and stays connected to another responder node. Once connected, either side can transmit information…

We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2 (just released) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.4 and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.2.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

This release contains several fixes and enhancements primarily driven by user's feedback, so thank you. For more details please follow these links:

• Spring Cloud Stream Core
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Rabbit Binder
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Kafka Binder
• Spring Cloud Function
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