Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this in an Uber en route to the airport to get to awsome Atlanta, GA, for Devnexus 2026! Who's goin'? You goin'? We - the Spring team - will be there in force! Come say hi at the boothes or come see our many, many talks there! Anyway, I've got a flight to catch so let's dive right into this wonderful week's roundup! this post is really cool: want to make your run-of-the-mill Spring Boot + Tomcat + JPA applications scale a lot higher? Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.6, and check out this wonderful…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I sit down with DevOps legend and industry analyst extraordinaire John Willis and talk about his new book Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith, and talk about the nature of the ecosystem, AI, the role of the developer in this exciting new world, and so much more! #ai #springboot #developers #artificailintelligence get the book begin your AI journey with Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome (and oh-so-agentic) week in Spring! We've got a ton to look into, and I've got even more to prepare for next week's DevNexus event in Atlanta, GA, so let's dive right into it! (Be sure to say "hi" if you're going to be there, though!) You've heard of Agent Skills before, right? The new thing announced about a month ago by Anthropic as a way to conditionally add knowledge about your expectations for workflows, processes, conventions, etc.? Well, good news! In this video, DaShaun Carter, James Ward, and I look at the amazing support for building Agent…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the amazing Glenn Renfro about Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring AI, and much more — plus why you should definitely register to attend the amazing Devnexus event in Atlanta, GA!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year for billions of people around the world and to those who celebrate, Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year (新年快乐)! Or Happy Spring Festival (春节快乐)! (My favorite kind of festival!) In honor of the auspicious day, I asked the AI to generate an image of the fire horse, and it did not disappoint! Awesome! You know what else is awesome? So much amazing content from the community this week, so let's dive right into it! Nice! An article on using Spring AI on Baeldung. This is awesome! A…

Hi, Spring fans! I've been waiting for this episode for so long! Today, we're finally joined by my friend Richard Fichtner, who so took pity on my plight waiting for music to be added to the GraalVM that his company, XDev Software, created the music-maven-plugin, the best Maven plugin, ever! This episode was recorded live at the amazing JFokus 2026 event!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 10th, 2026, as I write this from lovely London, UK. I spoke at the local Java User Group here last night, had a wonderful time. Tomorrow, I'm going home. It's been fun, but it's time to conclude this roller coaster whirlwind tour of Toronto, Canada; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Istanbul, Turkey; and London, UK. I've been busy, but as usual, the community's been busier! There's a ton to get into so let's dive right into it! I did a video on how to build production-worthy AI systems and services with…

hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to JetBrains legend Marco Behler

Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in northern Europe. I went on the Vaadin cruise from Finland to Sweden, gave a talk on a boat, then arrived in Stockholm in time for the amazing JFokus 2026 event where I had the privilege yesterday of doing a deep dive with my pal James Ward on Spring AI and agentic patterns (some of which we also look at in this very roundup). Later today, I'm doing a talk introducing the new Spring Boot 4 support. Busy day, so let's dive right into this roundup! Spring gRPC 1.0.2 available now want your AI agents to be more intelligent? Check out this amazing new blog from the…

Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.