May 21, 2024, at 9 AM PST

You can now use Azure Spring Apps to effectively run Spring Batch applications with adaptive cost control. You only pay when batch jobs are running, and you can simply lift and shift your Spring Batch jobs with no code change.

Spring Batch is a framework for processing large amounts of data in Java applications. It provides reusable functions for logging, transaction management, job statistics, job restart, skipping errors, and resource management. It also supports high-performance tasks through optimization and partitioning. Introduced in March 2008, Spring Batch is…

Hi, Spring and Testcontainers fans! In this interview, I talk to Oleg Šelajev

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This week's highlights in the Spring ecosystem emphasize the ongoing advancements and applications of Spring AI. The discussions range from exploring the impressive VectorStore abstraction and enhanced structured output support to practical integrations with platforms like Azure OpenAI and Neo4J. There are several posts this week about how Spring AI can power intelligent applications. The celebration of Spring Boot's 10th anniversary with its cofounders and a historical reflection by Spring founder Rod Johnson further…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to cofounders Phil Webb and Dr. David Syer, on the occassion of the 10th Anniversary of Spring Boot

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing support for vector databases in Spring AI.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in bellisima Rome, Italy, where I've just spent time in some fun meetings, and now I'm off to lovely London, UK, for Devoxx UK 2024. It's going to be amazing. If you're there, don't hesitate to say hi! I've got to run for a plane so let's make this week's installment quick!

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Zenika CEO Carl Azoury
• Spring Tools 4.22.1 released
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the humble Spring bean, and you should too!
• Interesting! Somebody is refactoring and reworking a Spring AI demo I did and it's fun to watch
• Baeldung is at it again with a post that'll surely be the first search result for some search you'll make soon enough: setting the default time zone in a Spring Boot application
• Four Cool Things about Spring AI
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Zenika founder and CEO Carl Azoury, and friend to the community and a part of the Spring story for decades

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we explore the essential Spring bean. What are they, how are they created, and what do they mean to you?

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we revisit Spring Cloud Gateway, this time to look at the fantastic new support for Spring MVC, made all the more amazing by Java 21's virtual threads.

Welcome to yet another amazing installment of This Week in Spring!

As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right into it!

• Chris Bono announces the new versions of Spring Functions Catalog and Spring Cloud Streams Applications
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Cloud Services and security guru Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the nascent world and support in Spring Security of Passkeys.
• Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 have been released! This introduces an updated ArchUnit 1.1.1 release, which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat .jar format of Spring Boot. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator, and observability modules had been affected and should now properly…