Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to one of the most inspiring people in the technology world, a friend, and inspiration, Mr. Shigeru Urushibara (@urucrunch). Urushibara-san is a Java and Spring programmer and a general technology enthusiast. He's founder, president, and director of ULS Group Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Tokyo that is listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange and that employs hundreds of people. He's a friend of the Java community and we're honored to have him on the show.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Friends, director of Spring engineering and Spring Native cofounder Andy Clement and I will be doing a presentation with Bellsoft's Dmitry Chuyko called Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three, that introduces how to build GraalVM native images for Spring Boot applications with the new Spring Native project. Do not miss this webinar on March 25th at 11 am.

• Join Spring Cloud for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling for this webinar, GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes, on March 25, 2021, at 9:00 AM PTA.
• Join VMWare Tanzu CTO James Watters for this webinar, What Is Tanzu?, on March 24th at 17:00 CET.
• A nice Japanese language blog on the just-announced Spring Native project
• Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones
• An Azure Spring Cloud Update: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud
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Join Josh Long (@starbuxman), Nate Schutta, Mark Heckler (@mkheck), Cora Iberkleid (@ciberkleid), Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski), and Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) for this journey from code with Spring Boot to production on Kubernetes.

For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel

Hi, Spring fans! I hope you'll join the legendary Andy Clement (director of engineering on the Spring team, Spring/AspectJ/Spring Tool Suite/Eclipse contributor, and Spring Native cofounder) and me, well known ASCII art fan, for the upcoming JRUSH event.

At some point, after you've gotten the business logic just right and the ASCII art resplendent, you'll want to reduce data center spend and improve speed. And when this time comes, you're going to wish you had watched this presentation where Andy and Josh introduce the Spring Native project. You don't want regrets, do you, friend? Do the right thing. Be the change you want to see in the world: …

Hi, Spring fans! DataStax and Spring are the classic Netflixian definition of a cloud-native, and for good reason:

• they scales
• they're easy
• they're easily operationalized

In this video, join DataStax's Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin), Cedrick Lunven (@clunven), and the Spring team's Josh Long (@starbuxman) as they introduce Bootiful Cassandra and look at some of the technology that continues to power some of the largest websites on the planet.

Register for DataStax Astra now and try this code anytime. You don't need a credit card, and you get $25.00 USD credit every month, which gives you…

I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.5 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• OpenMetrics support for Prometheus
• Support for environment variable prefixes
• More Buildpack updates
• A fresh new look for the docs (including a "dark theme").

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.5-M3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.5 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on start.spring.io…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train (2020.0.2) is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.2 Release Train

This release was primarliy for bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

See this page for a list of Known Issues.

See the wiki for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Hint-based instance selection for SC LoadBalancer added (#672)
• Request-based sticky-session support added in blocking LoadBalancer client (#901)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 60 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

NOTE: this post was written by our friend Kylie Liang (@liangkylie) from the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team. Thanks, Kylie!

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale features. Both are critical to securely running production workloads at scale on the Azure Spring Cloud service.

Secure Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Network

With the Managed Virtual Network feature, you can provision the Azure Spring Cloud service in your virtual network which enables:

• Isolation of Azure Spring Cloud apps and service runtime from the internet on your corporate network.
• Interacting with systems in on-premises data centers or Azure services in other virtual networks.
• Controlling inbound and outbound network communications for Azure Spring Cloud.
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