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I've just finished recording two epic episodes of a Bootiful Podcast that'll be streaming to ears near you in the not-too-distant future. I can not wait.

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We've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's begin.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Intuit's Katie Levy on Spring Boot, Kotlin, Android and more
• Announcing Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes.
• At @VMware, @sinasojoodi & @RKela are helping retailers migrate to event streaming and event-driven microservices. Hear all about it on today's episode of #StreamingAudio, hosted by @tlberglund, where they cover @springcentral and much more!
• Building a Chat application with Angular and Spring Reactive WebSocket: Part 2 | by Hantsy | Jul, 2020 | Medium
• Check out this guide to learn how to schedule Tasks with Spring
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Introducing Java Functions for Spring Cloud Stream Applications - Part 1

Last week we posted Introducing Java Functions for Spring Cloud Stream Applications - Part 0
to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream applications 2020.0.0-M2.
Here, we explore function composition, one of the more powerful features enabled by the function oriented architecture presented in Part 0. If you haven’t had a chance to read Part 0, now would be a great time!

Function Composition

Function composition has a solid theoretical foundation in mathematics and computer science.
In practical terms, it is a way to…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Intuit's Katie Levy (@klevy110) about how Intuit uses Spring Boot, Kotlin, Android and more to help tens of millions of users every year with their taxes.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.9.0 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 34 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

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This post is a guest post by community member Marcus Hellberg (@marcushellberg). Marcus is the head of the Community team at Vaadin. He likes helping developers discover and learn modern web technologies by creating online content and speaking with developers at events.

Building web apps can be a daunting task. There are many moving parts: you need to define the structure in HTML and then use CSS to make it look the way you want. For frontend apps, you also need to write the app logic in JavaScript and connect it to your backend over REST. And of course, you also need to implement the…

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Hi, Spring fans! How're things? Good? Good. I just finished (virtually) presenting for the always-lovely London Java Community this morning. We spoke about Kotlin and Spring and things. It was good. Thank you so much for having me LJC! I also kicked off the epic JetBrains Java Day Online event last Friday. That was a ton of fun! Thank you Jetbrains. I finally, finally, put some elbow grease into automating a listing of some my activity and so now whenever I publish a new Spring Tips video, a new A Bootiful Podcast podcast, or commit to a new public appearance, I'll have information here on my…

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream applications 2020.0.0-M2. This release is a complete overhaul of the legacy Spring Cloud Stream App Starters. Starting with this release, we are moving away from theme-oriented release train names (famous scientists in alphabetical order) to calendar based versioning. The current GA release is called Einstein, and we are pleased to introduce 2020.0.0-M2. We are also moving away from the app starters. Having reorganized, repackaged, and (in some cases) rewritten the underlying code, we now have a new Git repository: spring-cloud/stream…

Earlier this month, we released a first milestone of Reactor 2020.0. This cycle, codename Europium, follows the Dysprosium one (which included reactor-core 3.3.x and reactor-netty 0.9.x).

It includes reactor-core 3.4.0 and reactor-netty 1.0.0.

In this blog post, we'll cover a few highlights of the reactor-core milestone, and briefly mention what's in store for M2.

For reactor-netty, we'll link to a separate blog post here as soon as it is out.

Note also that there is a new versioning scheme in place, which has been adopted accross the Spring portfolio: see the reference guide and this blog post…