Hypermedia and Browser Enhancement

Engineering | Dave Syer | March 15, 2024 | ...

Front end development these days is dominated by large JavaScript client side frameworks. There are plenty of good reasons for that, but it can be very inefficient for many use cases, and the framework engineering has become extremely complex. In this article, I want to explore a different approach, one that is more efficient and more flexible, built from smaller building blocks, and well-suited to server side application frameworks like Spring (or similar tools in a range of server side languages). The idea is to embrace the concept of hypermedia, imagine how a next-generation browser would…

This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | March 13, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be!

Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1)

Engineering | Josh Long | March 11, 2024 | ...

NB: the code is here on my Github account: github.com/joshlong/bootiful-spring-boot-2024-blog.

Hi, Spring fans! I'm Josh Long, and I work on the Spring team. I'm excited to be keynoting and giving a talk at Microsoft's JDConf this year. I'm a Kotlin GDE and a Java Champion, and I'm of the opinion that there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer. I say that fully aware of where we stand in the span of things today. It's been 21+ years since the earliest releases of the Spring Framework and 11+ years since the earliest releases of Spring Boot. This year marks 20 years…

Function Calling in Java and Spring AI using the latest Mistral AI API

Engineering | Christian Tzolov | March 06, 2024 | ...

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication.

Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function Calling support to its cutting-edge models.

Function Calling is a feature that facilitates the integration of LLM with external tools and APIs. It enables the language model to request the execution of client-side functions, allowing it to access necessary run-time information or perform tasks…

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | March 05, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll." Well, you won't find that here, no way, no how! There are no memes here. Well, not often, anyway. No, this is a place for personal growth, reflection, and contemplation on the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Spring.

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