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…
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…
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…
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm supposed to be in Paris and Belgium. Unfortunately, because of the recent, tragic, disgusting and cowardly attacks on the Brussels airport and metro, I am not entirely sure about whether I'll be in Belgium physically. Tonight's meetup talk, however, will carry on remotely, via streaming. Stay tuned to my Twitter handle - @starbuxman for more. That said, there's a lot of great content so let's get to it! Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced the first release…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a crazy week it's been since we last talked! I spent a day in San Francisco, Germany, Scotland, and Romania between Monday and Friday last. It's nice this week to be in (warm!) southern California in Los Angeles and San Diego speaking to customers and at a couple of meetups! If you're around, I hope you'll join me for the Cloud Native Meetup here in Los Angeles (tonight!). the 2016 NFJS tour has just kicked off, first in Minneapolis. The amazing Craig Walls and Matt Stine be presenting at most of the NFJS shows in 2016 on all manner…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bruhl, Germany for the amazing JavaLand show, then it's off to Scotland to visit a large customer, and then it's off to Romania for Voxxed Days Bucharest. If you're in any of those places, I'd love to connect! Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll introduces some of the niceties in Spring framework 4.3 Do not miss Micah Silverman's upcoming webinar introducing the amazing Stormpath and Spring/Spring Boot-based integration and Auto-configuration. Stormpath is an epic identity provider as-a-service. It's ideal for cloud-based…
