In this wide-ranging interview, I finally sit down one-on-one and talk to Dr. Rod Johnson, the creator of Spring, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, engineer, father, Kotlin fan, AI researcher, and musician, about this, that, and everything in between, fresh off our recent SpringOne presentation on Spring AI with Spring AI founder Dr. Mark Pollack. This is an extra special, extra-long episode!

Hi, Spring fans! Or, I suppose: 안녕하세요, Spring 팬 여러분! I'm writing this from a café in scintillating Seoul, Korea. It's amazing. I've been talking to developers of all stripes who are using and building upon Spring to do all sorts of cool stuff.

And tomorrow, it's off to jolly Japan. I'll be speaking, among other places, at the Japanese Spring User Group in Tokyo. I'd love to see you there!

We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze has a nice sample application demonstrating Kotlin/WASM, leveraging Kotlin serialization on both JVM and in WASM, and using Spring Boot 3.3 and Kotlin 2.0.
• Speaking of Sébastien, I interviewed him, and we talked about all things Spring, AppCDS, GraalVM, Project Leyden, Kotlin, and more.
• I also interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson yesterday, and we talked about all things Spring, AI, venture capital, and more.
• There’s an interesting discussion on a ticket in Spring Framework around proxies with CGLIB when @Aspect is used.
• Micrometer 1.13.4 is out!…

Dive deep into the world of Spring Framework and Kotlin, GraalVM, Project Leyden, AppCDS, runtime efficiency, Kotlin, and more, with the one and only Sébastien Deleuze! From runtime efficiency to all things Kotlin, this episode is packed with expert insights and valuable information. Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation with a true Spring guru! Tune in now! #Java #SpringFramework #Kotlin #TechTalks #SpringBoot

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the Tanzu legend Chris Sterling, who works on making Spring an even more valuable part of a platform. (This episode was recorded live at the epic SpringOne 2024 event!)

Hi, Spring fans, from the expo hall of SpringOne at VMware Explore 2024! There's a livestream of some of the key talks - register and watch for free now at SpringOne.io. Right now I'm hanging out at the expo hall manning a booth and doing demos to the hoardes of people streaming by, but I'll be talking a bit later, too, which, again, you can watch online at SpringOne.io.

As you can imagine, in the runup to SpringOne, there are a ton of exciting bits to look into, so let's!

• Spring AI 1.0.0 M2 is available now!
• Spring AI support for NVIDIA LLM API
• Good news everybody! Spring Shell 3.3.7, 3.3.2, and 3.4.0 M1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.3 M2 and 1.2.3 are available
• [Spring Boot CVE fixes](https://spring.io/blog/2024/08/23/spring-boot-releases-fix-for-cve-2024-38807
• check out this nice blog looking at structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4
• Spring Boot 3.4 M2 now available
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, i talked with Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg
• Spring Boot 3.3.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 3.2.9 is now available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Vaadin developer advocacy legend Marcus Hellberg about the lates-and-greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Spring.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment in This Week in Spring! And happy week-before-SpringOne! I'm so excited I could spit! As you might imagine, AI, cloud native architecture, and so much more are top-of-mind. I love AI, and all its many applications. In that spirit, let's get ChatGPT to write a little poem for us!

'Twas the week before SpringOne, and all through Las Vegas, Java devs were arriving, their excitement contagious. Spring Boot and Kotlin, all polished with care, In hopes that new features soon would be there. Workshops and sessions, each bright in their light, Promising…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Gradle and Develocity engineer and Spring community legend Eric Haag

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy...

• Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at using Spring Boot and HTMX together
• I love this: a bunch of opensource projects are working on a common set of annotations to convey nullability and null-restricted types in Java
• I love this: IntelliJ IDEA has a new feature: multi-project workspaces…