Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it's off to Lima, Peru. It's figuring to be quite a week!

As usual, we've got a lot to get to so let's do!

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.
• Explore a newly-generated project on start.spring.io
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M1 is available.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.M3 Released!
• I love seeing that DICKS sporting-goods is experiencing such great success with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
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Hi, Spring fans! Happy 4th to those of you who celebrate. In today's episode, I talk to the man, the myth, the legend, the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.

• Dr. Subramaniam on Twitter (@venkat_s)
• a tweet asking that whatever recording I do with Dr. Subramaniam for the Bootiful Podcast be longer than an hour (wish granted!)
• The image from today's episode comes from a joint-talk that the good Dr. Subramaniam and I did in Atlanta, GA for the epic Devnexus conference. I am using the photo from Matt Raible's tweet
• Dr. Subramaniam's new book, Programming Kotlin
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm sunny summer-time San Francisco indulging in a little downtime. Last week was a doozy! I visited Tampa, Flordia; Paris, France; and finally Santiago, Dominican Republic. Later this week, after the 4th of July holiday here in the States, I'll head on over to Medellin, Columbia for JConf Columbia; Chicago, Illinois for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event; and then Lima, Peru for the JConf Peru event.

I'm so looking forward to a few weeks of fun talking to amazing developers around the globe. If you're around, as usual, don't hesitate to reach out to me on @starbuxman…

Ben Wilcock – Spring Marketing, Pivotal. Brian McClain – Technical Marketing, Pivotal.

It's rare for a company to want every API to be publicly accessible. Most prefer to keep their services secret by default, only exposing APIs publicly when absolutely necessary.

Spring Cloud Gateway can help. Spring Cloud Gateway allows you to route traffic to your APIs using simple Java™ instructions (which we saw in the last article) or with YAML configuration files (which we’ll demonstrate in this one). To hide your services, you set up your network so that the only server accessible from the outside is…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to @Datadog 's Jason Yee (@gitbisect) about observability, operations, metrics, Kubernetes, language and more.

• Jason Yee on Twitter (@GitBisect)
• a great post on the (brief) history of Observability
• @DevoxxUK

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.1.2 GA and 2.0.3 GA of Data Flow.

This is a minor release with mostly bug fixes and documentation enhancements.

Here are the highlights of the releases:

• Bug fixes on Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Data Flow UI and Spring Cloud Scheduler for CloudFoundry

• Java Stream DSL now supports stream update operation

• Spring Cloud Deployer now uses Maven Resolver instead of Aether for resolving the Maven artifacts

Along with the releases, we also have the Spring Cloud Data Flow website enhanced with

• Responsive Design

• More receipes and use cases discussion

• Documentation fixes

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Hi Spring fans! It's the end of yet another season of Spring Tips! I finished season 5 very recently, and had planned to leave it there for a month or two, but there were so many amazing things yet uncovered and constantly being released that I ended up releasing more episodes for what would become season 6. Now, I've finished season 6, and an extra episode besides, and will be taking a brief break to gather for the next season and take a few weeks to soak up and savor the summer season with my family.

Please follow @SpringTipsLive on Twitter. I'd love any ideas you have for the new season. In the meantime, I'll still be doing the Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast on Twitter), if you want to listen instead of watch, and of course there is my weekly…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today I'm in beautiful Tampla, Fl, where I got to talk to a wonderful Pivotal customer today. Now I'm at TPA airport preparing to board for Paris, France, for JHipsterConf.

We've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

• I just want to remind people that the majority of the Spring team is sponsored by the company Pivotal, an open-source powerhouse that sponsors among other things Spring, Cloud Foundry, a Kubernetes distribution, RabbitMQ, Jasmine, Apache Geode, Apache Tomcat, and a ton of other things. We've also got a deep bench in building software development tools including things like Pivotal Tracker. Want to learn more?
• Spring Tools 4.3.0 released
• A Bootiful Podcast: IBM's Pratik Patel on Java, Functions-as-a-service, cloud infrastructure, Spring and Devnexus
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.9 released
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Hi Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) speaks to @IBM's Pratik Patel (@prpatel) about function-as-a-service, Spring Cloud Function, Spring, Java and Devnexus