Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to VMware vice president Betty Junod about VMware, its amazing ecosystem, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's October 17th, 2023, and I am here in Montreal, Canada, and then I'm off to Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday for the Java User Group there. Don't miss it!

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

• Apache Kafka's Exactly-Once Semantics in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications
• Guide to Modulith with Spring Boot - Piotr's TechBlog
• Runtime efficiency with Spring (today and tomorrow)
• Spring Data 2023.0.5, 2022.0.11, and 2021.2.17 released
• Spring Framework 6.0.13 available now
• Transactional Rollback Strategies with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka
• Using Records as Projections in JPA
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Hi, Spring fans! Are you using Java 21 in production already? No? you should listen to this episode. Yes? Then you should listen to this episode! This week, Josh Long talks to legendary Java Language Architect Brian Goetz (@BrianGoetz) recaping the latest-and-greatest and previewing Java.next

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium event, and this week I've been in Amsterdam for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam stop and - in the middle of the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam event - I dipped out to join my friend and fellow Java Champion Trustin Lee (@trustin) (he created Netty! the guy's a living legend!) for a discussion and ask-me-anything at the local Amsterdam Java User Group, hosted by fellow Java Champion and local Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW). It was a lovely day indeed across the two…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to Spring Data legend Greg Turnquist (@gregturn) about the incredible next-level optimizations and query enhancements, the work in general, and so much more. Recorded live at SpringOne 2023 in Las Vegas!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've just flown in from Singapore - where I was keynoting and presenting at SpringOne Singapore - and am now in Antwerp, Belgium for the deliriously fun Devoxx Belgium show. I've missed this show, and it's a true pleasure to be back here! Next week, I'll be in Amsterdam, just next door, for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. If you're there, come out and say hi!

We've got a lot of stuff to look at this morning, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack
• Building a ChatGPT clone with Spring Boot, LangChain, and React in 20 minutes
• Dockerize Your Spring Boot App Like a Pro
• Hah. This is fun! Generate Dynamic Websites using ChatGPT and Spring AI
• a new release of GitHub - toedter/spring-hateoas-jsonapi: A JSON:API media type implementation for Spring HATEOAS
• How To Log Outgoing HTTP Requests with Spring Rest Client and Spring Boot 3
• Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications
• Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M2 (aka Leyton) has been released
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? It's September 26th, 2023, and I am in sunny Singapore for SpringOne at VMWare Explore Singapore. If you're around, don't forget to say hi!

It's gonna be a fun and busy week in Singapore, and then next week I'm off to Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx BE 2023. Then, I'm off to Morocco, for Devoxx MA 2023. Then, I'm off to Amsterdam for SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. If you're in any of these places, do not hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'd love to chat! And with that, we've got a ton of things to cover…

Hi, Spring fans! Java 21 is out and in order to celebrate, I talk to Java community legend Sharat Chander.

Hi, Spring fans!

Get the bits

Before we get started, do something for me quickly. If you haven’t already, go install SKDMAN.

Then run:

sdk install java 21-graalce && sdk default java 21-graalce

There you have it. You now have Java 21 and graalvm supporting Java 21 on your machine, ready to go. Java 21 is, in my estimation, the most critical release of Java, perhaps ever, in that it implies a whole new world of opportunities for people using Java. It brings a slew of nice APIs and additions, like pattern matching, culminating years of features slowly and steadily adding to the platform. But…