Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's nearly December 2021? I'm still getting used to the idea that we're already in 2021 and now the year's nearly behind us! Stop the world, I want off! Time's flying.

I've been up to my eyeballs in Spring Tips video production. I can't wait for you to see tomorrow's installment (@SpringTipsLive)!

We've also got some great podcast interviews lined up. As always, new episodes drop on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc., every Thursday night (California time)/Friday (for most of the world). Don't miss it (@BootifulPodcast)!

You could also just check out my blog (joshlong.com) for the upcoming appearances, podcasts, Spring Tips videos, etc. The trouble is that the blog is otherwise pretty boring. My boring content notwithstanding, it's a plain l'il page on the internet, and I've been wanting to mix it up…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Apache Artemis and messaging legend Clebert Suconic (@clebertsuconic). Check out ArtemisCloud.io for easy Kubernetes deployments of Apache Artemis.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, I wanted to share with you the keynote that Google's James Ward (@_JamesWard) and I put together for the recent Reactive Summit 2021 event, titled: "Reactive, Here and There."

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I'm doing alright! It's been raining cats and dogs here in San Francisco. California, the state where I live, dearly needs the rain, so it's a positive, I suppose. But it still feels miserable. Between the daylights savings time shortening the daylight significantly and the rain, it's a gloomy kind of day. At least there's a lot of good stuff to read! Let's dive right into it!

• Bootiful Podcast: Legend, Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids contributor, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal
• Full Stack Java with React, Spring Boot, and JHipster
• Hello, Coherence — Bootiful Spring by Oracle's Gunnar Hillert, a legend.
• Check out the videos from the recent Reactive Summit. I was the emcee and the day two keynoter, along with my friend and Google's James Ward.
• Running Spring Boot Apps? Start Tracing with OpenTelemetry in Minutes!
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-RC1 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.8.4 and 2.9.1 Released
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids Netherlands (@Devoxx4KidsNL) leader, inspiring person, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal (@DuchessFounder).

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll continue our exploration of @Controllers, and look at HTTP APIs and SSE with Spring. This time, we'll use Spring Webflux.

The code is here: github.com/spring-tips/controllers

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've been busy as all get out emceeing the Reactive Summit 2021 event (it's free and it's online!). The event has been awe-inspiring because there are so many amazing speakers from all walks of life present and speaking. Today, the conference welcomed professor Carl Hewitt, the creator of the Actor Paradigm, as its keynote. Then, figuring there was no topping that and figuring they could go for broke, they foolishly ( muahahah! ) asked me to do the day two keynote. So, I'll be doing tomorrow's keynote…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Paketo contributor Daniel Mikusa about buildpacks, Paketo, containers, UPX, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, the first of a series, Josh Long looks at the venerable @Controller annotation and its use supporting Model 2 MVC-style web applications.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you?

I'm doing well, as always. I literally just wrapped up presenting a fun session at the Russian Joker conference all about Spring and GraphQL. I got a ton of great questions from an enthusiastic audience. Thanks so much for joining me, everyone. I've got to get to other meetings, though, so let's get this wonderful week in Spring out of the way!

• Spring Tips: refreshable configuration with Spring Cloud Bus, and the Spring Cloud Config Monitor
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder Alexis Richardson about RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD
• A great article that @Javinpaul linked me to: What is @PropertySource in Spring Framework?
• fellow Java Champion Andres Almiray has just released a very cool sample Spring Boot application demonstrating some features of the JReleaser project, which aims to make deploying artifacts as easy as possible.
• Want to learn Spring Boot? Check out …