Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in Chennai, India, en route to Bangalore, India for a day of exciting customer meetings and then I'm off to sunny Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO event! Then, this Friday, I'm off to Kiev, Ukraine, for JEEConf. If you're around, as always, don't be shy and say hi!. That said, let's get into it!

• The BIG news: Spring Cloud Brixton is now available! Get the bits from the Spring Initializr. If you'll permit a little back-patting, I submit that you might get a good feel for what concerns a technology like Spring Cloud addresses by reading this article I wrote and you'll learn how Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are used in this video. That said, grab the bits and go!
• Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0 is here, at long last! Spring Cloud stream makes it simple to build collaborating messaging-based microservices.
• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced that Spring Boot 1.4.0.M3 is now available, just in time…

Auntie Em! Time sure is flying! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Warsaw for a Cloud Native meetup and Krakow, Poland for the spectacular Geecon event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi for Also, some very big news coming! Stay tuned to the Spring.io blog tomorrow! Anyway, as usual, we've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.0 RELEASE! This is a big release with a lot of cool stuff!
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform 2.0.4 release
• Spring AMQP and messaging guru Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 1.6.0 RC (and 1.5.6)
• Spring framework ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework 4.3 RC2, 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 are now available
• not one to sit on his laurels, Stéphane also announced Spring Boot 1.3.5
• This blog has a really nice look at some of the players in the microservice ecosystem…

I can't even believe it's May already! STOP THE WORLD I WANT OFF! Well, at least the times are exciting! There's so much cool stuff to look at this week so let's get to it!

• New sessions are up on the shiny new SpringOne Platform website check it out! In addition to an Adrian Cockcroft keynote, we're got speakers booked from Netflix, Google, Comcast, Express Scripts, Kroger, along with Spring leaders like Juergen Hoeller, Dr. Dave Syer, Rossen Stoyanchev, Oliver Gierke, and of course, yours truly!
• and join Spring Cloud Data Flow leads Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack for a look at Data Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Session and Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.2.0.RC3.
• Spring REST Docs lead …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Budapest, Hungary, for the amazing Craft Conf. This show is a very special show indeed. Special, for me, first in that I'll be joined by industry titans like Adrian Cochroft, Jez Humble, Sam Newman, and Kyle Kingsbury, and in that I'll join two of my friends from Pivotal - Andrew Clay Shafer and Bridget Kromhout (also titans)! I'm so excited to be among these, and many more, that I can hardly contain it and I recommend you consider making the trip if it's convenient, one day, yourself.

Now then, we've got a lot to get…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stuttgart and Mainz, Germany and Paris, France, speaking to customers and at the JAX conference, then it's off to Paris, France, to speak at the Devoxx France edition. If you're around in any of these places don't hesitate to reach out I'd love to say hello.

Also, tonight, I'll be joining my friends from industry (Daniel Bryant, Markus Eisele, and Simon Maple) for the ZeroTurnaround webinar, Microservices for the Enterprise. There are already more than 3,000 people registered and I hope to see you there, as well!

As usual…

The Bigger Picture

Let's talk about Pivotal. Our ambition is to make business more agile, to reduce the time around the innovation loop; speed is the single biggest advantage an organization can have. Pivotal's main "product" is agility. This translates naturally into technology. Microservices are well-defined, small, easy-to-evolve, independently deployable batches of functionality. They lend themselves to rapid iteration because they're small. Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem make short work of standing up new microservices and applications, and Spring Cloud handles the complexity in…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in wet and wonderful New York City. It's already almost tax-day here in the US! Whew! time is sure flying. Other (markedly more pleasant) annual landmarks will soon be here, including our big SpringOne Platform event, so book your tickets now!

Also, I'll be joining my friends Simon Maple, Daniel Bryant, and Markus Eisele for a webinar on microservices on April 19th - join us! It should be fun and - hopefully - interesting!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data Hopper went GA! This release includes 395 tickets closed and represents a substantial body of work! Get the bits and try it out now!
• Spring Integration and general messaging ninja Artem Bilan's just announced the first milestone in the Spring Integration Kafka 2.0 series. This release represents a complete rewrite of the support provided in Spring Kafka based on the Producer and Consumer APIs in Kafka 0.9x. Check it out, kick the tires and give feedback!
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream 1.0RC2. This release includes support for the ObjectMapper…

I just wanted to register here an experience that made me smile yesterday: making the rapidly improving Spring Cloud Data Flow wiggle from (Spring Boot) start(-ers) to service in a matter of minutes!

The only pre-requisite is that you have a Redis instance runnning. My Redis instance is running on 127.0.0.1 and it required no further configuration for Spring Boot to find and work with it.

We'll use the epic Spring Initializr to make short work of generating our applications. Remember those silly Apple commercials, "There's an App For That?" Nevermind that, there's a checkbox for that! Let's…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1 has been released! Get the bits and try it out.
• Oracle's amazing Geertjan Wielenga put together an awesome, 100% live demo looking at how to use Spring Boot with NetBeans
• I love Spring Cloud Data Flow! Whether you want a way to describe and compose complex processing streams from simple actor-like components, want to orchestrate stream processing solutions, manage tasks like data at-scale data ingest or otherwise, Spring Cloud Data Flow is probably what you're looking for. Check out this quick look at…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm working with customers and trying to bring the Spring (and hoping for the according weather!) to hitherto snow-covered Denver, Colorado.

• the momentum behind the sensation that's sweeping the nation, Spring Cloud, continues as it picks up speed heading to Spring Cloud Brixton's final release! The first release candidate, Spring Cloud RC1, is now available! The new release has a lot of new features - make sure to consult the README!
• Joe Stein's Developing Real-Time Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka from SpringOne2GX 2015 talk replay is now up
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls' SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on developing social applications with Spring Social is now up
• Martin Lippert continues his epic series on the really …