Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks with Sergi Almar (@sergiAlmar) about organizing one of the best JVM community shows in the business, Barcelona's Spring I/O, being a trainer, and so much more.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Important Security Advisory

Spring Cloud Config contains fixes for CVE-2020-5405.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone was primarily a bugfix release.

Please see the Hoxton.SR3 Github Project for all issues closed.

This milestone release is built with Spring Boot 2.2.5.RELEASE.

Spring Cloud Config

NOTE: The writable env endpoint has been disabled by default. To re-enable this please set management.endpoint.env.post.enabled=true…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips. In this episode we're going to look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Security. I love Kotlin. I introduced Kotlin in several other Spring Tips videos: The Kotlin Programming Language, Bootiful Kotlin Redux, and Spring's Support for Coroutines. Some of those videos are very old! There are already a number of different projects in the Spring diaspora that are shipping Kotlin DSLs. They include, among others, Spring Framework, Spring Webflux, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Contract and Spring Cloud Gateway. And now, Spring Security!

Spring Security is an amazing project - it solves some of the hardest problems in the industry and helps people secure their applications. And, as if that weren't enough, it's displayed a steadfast determination to make security easy. If you ever used Spring Security in its earliest incarnations, you'd know that it required loads of XML - pages! - to get anything done. That improved to the point where in Spring Security 3 you…

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…