Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Eitan Suez Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/where-does-apache-geode-fit-in-cqrs-architectures

In this talk, Eitan Suez will explore the question: Where does Geode fit in an organization's system architecture? Geode is a unique and feature-rich product that perhaps hasn't seen as much adoption as it deserves. Today's apps are no longer the straightforward, database-backed web applications we used to build a few years ago. Applications have become more sophisticated, as they've had to meet the need to scale, to be reliable, fault…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Greg Turnquist Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/introduction-to-spring-data

Are you still writing data queries by hand? Learn how Spring Data gives you the tools to leap over that hurdle and dive into solving problems. Feeling locked into your relational database due to having written gobs of SQL operations? In this live coding session, see how Spring Data provides the means to reduce that risk and give you the means to branch into other data stores. With a couple extra lines of code, you can even have a RESTful interface in no…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Mark Paluch Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/managing-secrets-at-scale-64889986

Running multiple instances of microservices, deploying Docker images to Kubernetes is the current trend. But what about security? Are you encrypting passwords? Where do you store the key? How often do you rotate secrets? A modern system requires access to a multitude of secrets: database credentials, API keys for external services, credentials for service-oriented architecture communication and often much more. Traditional, manual patterns cannot keep…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the fourth Spring Framework 5.0 milestone is available now, right in time to wrap up 2016! Once again, please check the project page for how to obtain it from our milestone repository and the updated "Reactive Web Applications" documentation.

This milestone brings our reactive efforts close to completion and introduces a functional bean registration facility as well as comprehensive support for the Kotlin language. Stay tuned for a dedicated blog post on Kotlin...

Cheers, Juergen

Welcome to a very special This Week in Spring! Every year we wrap up with a recap of highlights from the year. This year's no different! It's been a heckuva year, and the Pivotal Spring and Cloud Foundry teams seem to deliver bigger and better tech every passing day. If you've been following This Week in Spring then you'll no doubt be aware of the changes! It's hard to keep up, even for me, with the dizzying pace of releases!

So, here are the top five things I'd encourage people to review from 2016:

• Spring Boot: this year saw the release of Spring Boot 1.4 which in turn contains support for Spring Framework 4.3, Hibernate 5, Couchbase, Neo4J, and a slew of other niceties as discussed in the changelog. This year, in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9, Spring Boot enjoys even greater integration with the platform, with deep support for Spring Boot Actuators, among many other things being surfaces in the Apps Manager console. Also, the downloads for Spring Boot are through the roof, going from 2.4 million a month in November 2015 to 10.2 million a month in 201…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’d like to announce the first (and final) Release Candidate of Spring AMQP 1.7, which is available in the Milestone Repository.

This release is mainly an intermediate between version 1.6.x and 2.0 for Spring Boot 1.5 and IO Platform Brussels compatibility.

Anyway there are several improvements and new features to explain here:

• Upgrade to Amqp Client 4.0 with appropriate RabbitConnectionFactoryBean changes

• Upgrade to Log4j 2.7 and required braking change fix for the log4j2.AmqpAppender

• Upgrade to Spring Retry 1.2 with important StatefulRetryOperationsInterceptor.setUseRawKey(true) for backward compatibility

• a new spring-rabbit-junit artifact is provided with several utilities (like BrokerRunning @Rule) which can be useful for testing Spring AMQP applications

• The SimpleMessageListenerContainer can now be started without queues to listen to at all. They can be provided later at runtime via addQueues()

• a ConnectionNameStrategy is provided for the ConnectionFactory to allow to identify application connections in the Broker or other monitoring and tracing tools

  …

Hi Spring fans! I'm taking some time off for the holiday so there won't be a new Spring Tips until after the new year. If you're itching for something to watch and learn, here are some resources to tide you over.

Happy new year!

• the Spring YouTube channel is a wonderful resource with countless talks and videos from previous years' SpringOne2GX, SpringOne Platform and Cloud Foundry summit conferences, our year-long webinar program and even various meetups and so on. This is one of my absolute favorite resources that, thanks to our own Pieter Humphrey, has grown in leaps and bounds in the last several years, exceeding even the Java YouTube channel in subscribers!
• the Spring Tips YouTube Playlist - all the previous installments of Spring Tips are captured in this playlist. If you missed an episode or simply want to review, start here! So far, in 2016, we've looked at Spring Integration, Kotlin, Circuit Breakers, Spring-aware beans, functional reactive endpoints in Spring 5, Spring Cloud Stream, Cloud Foundry, JTA, Bootiful Dashboards, Demystifying Spring Boot, and …

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the first (and final) release candidate of Spring Data train Ingalls. The release ships over 310 issues fixed (some of them previously released with Hopper service releases). The most important new features are:

• Upgrade to Spring 4.3(.5) as baseline - #294.
• Support to easily expose domain events as Spring application events from aggregate roots - DATACMNS-928.
• Support for exists projection from derived query methods - DATACMNS-875.
• Support for Javaslang's Option, collection and map types on repository query methods - DATACMNS-937, DATACMNS-940.
• Added Spring Data LDAP module taking over the repository implementation of Spring LDAP.
• Support for MongoDB aggregation operators added in latest releases - DATAMONGO-1536.
• Stream execution now rejects invocation without surrounding transaction in JPA - DATAJPA-1023…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.3 includes over 70 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed!

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 at stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

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