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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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to sunny Atlanta, Georgia, for the epic Devnexus show there. If you're there, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'm also busy recording new episodes of a Bootiful Podcast and new Spring Tips videos videos. We have some amazing guests on the show coming up and we have some really fascinating topics to introduce in our Spring Tips videos, too!

• Announcing: The NEW Spring Website!
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Vedran Pavic on Spring Session, Croatia, and so much more
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M2 available now
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud in 15 minutes
• Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 2 Available
• Spring Data Neumann M3 released
• Happy birthday to the Cloud Foundry foundation!
• InfoQ hhas a really nice look at various, recent feveloper surveys and their results. One conclusion's inescapable: Spring Boot is a tour de force! Thank you communuty for being so amazing.
• Want to learn about the latest and greatest in Spring…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to community member and Spring Session teammate Vedran Pavic (@vedran_pavic).

• Vedran on Github
• Vedran on Twitter (@vedran_pavic)
• Spring Session

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends?

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

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oleg Šelajev on ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more
• Spring Security 4.2.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.2.2, 5.1.8 and 5.0.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.3.0.RC1 Released
• Oh, btw, did you know that the BOM and some choice starters for the Alibaba integrations for Spring are now available on the Spring Initializr?
• I published my monthly digest This Month in Spring over on the Pivotal blog, as usual.
• The Simplest Way to Deploy Spring Boot with PostgreSQL on AWS
• Mutation Testing: Case Studies on Spring Boot APIs
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Oleg Šelajev (@shelajev) about ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more.

• The GraalVM project
• The Virtual JUG
• The vJUG slack
• Oleg Šelajev on Twitter
• JRebel from ZeroTurnaround