Hi, Spring fans!

You know what I did? I goofed, people. I accidentally released This Week in Spring on this the last week of December, the last month of the year! And I shouldn't have. I should not have done that. Usually, you see, I turn the final installment of This Week in Spring for a given year into the aptly named This Year in Spring, a celebration of the big tentpole themes that have defined the year (well, from my perspective, anyway). Then I include the usual This Week in Spring roundup inline. I forgot to do that first part, so I am publishing this as a separate post. Hey, it's tradition…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast and happy new year! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google's Daniel Zou .

Happy New Year!

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

How are you? How're things? I spent this morning on a fun two-hour panel hosted by the Barcelona JUG (who run the JBCN conference, among other things) talking about all sorts of things including GraalVM native images, new features in the Java language, cloud-native applications, and so much more. Thanks for having me!

I am so happy about this week's roundup and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Alibaba's San-Hong Li on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba Scale
• Cloud Events and Spring - part 2
• Cosium/spring-data-jpa-entity-graph: Spring Data JPA extension allowing full dynamic usage of EntityGraph on repositories
• Hah! This is so interesting! Give Python applications Spring Boot Actuator endpoints
• Interesting! A third party library to allow people to easily follow CQS principles in Spring Boot.
• Interesting: Open API v3 Generator for Spring Boot applications
• Java Proxies: From Dog to TransactionalDog
• Java libraries I like – Eduards Sizovs
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Hi, Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Alibaba's San-Hong Li (@SanHong_Li) on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba-scale.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you!

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

It's December 22nd, 2020, as I write this and I can not believe we're smack dab in the middle of the week and only have two shopping days until Christmas! I don't know if it's just that time of year and I'm flush with the normal amount of warm-n-fuzzies or if it's just that, after a year like 2020, I'm very keen on savoring this precious reprieve. Either way, couldn't be happier. I've got a cold! I'm sick and sneezing and my nose is running, but at least it's not COVID-19, and at least I've got my family and my job, and - all things considered - I feel very, very, veery…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Cloud Foundry Developer Advocate Shedrack Akintayo (@coder_blvck) .

Also: Happy Holidays!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already December 15th? Me either! Another few weeks and this soul annhilating year will be over with and we'll be staring down 2021 filled with new hopes and possibilities! How are you? (Have you dipped into the eggnog yet?) I'm doing alright, thanks! I've been busy, as usual.

Most of that was fun stuff. But, some of that, I confess, was a mess of my own making. I spent Monday cleaning up a fire I'd set for myself. You see, I got a little sloppy with last week's podcast episode. Last week, I was…

Hi, Spring fans! In this special midweek installment I correct a mistake I made last week when I inadvertently released the episode featuring Dion Almaer, with the interview I conducted with Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine. This is the actual episode with Mahmoud Ben Hassine, with the correct title and everything! Enjoy!

Hi, Spring fans! In this special midweek installment I (Josh Long) correct a mistake I made last week when I inadvertently released the episode featuring open-web legend Dion Almaer with the interview I conducted with the inspirational and oh-so-amazing Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine. This is the actual episode with Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) who is known for so many contributions to the Java ecosystem and beyond. I know him as a former editor in chief of TheServerSide.com, but you may know him for his work championing the open web at Palm, Walmart, and Google, and many more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already past the first week of the last month of the year? I can't even believe that it's already been a week since we last congregated here, for this humble column, let alone almost a year since 2019! What a whirlwind.

We've got a ton of stuff to catch up on so let's get to it!

• 10 Best Java Frameworks to Use in 2020 [Updated]
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Heinz Kabutz
• How to figure out which Spring Boot versions are compatible with which Spring Cloud versions
• J-Fall Virtual 2020: Josh Long - Keynote: Cloud Native Java, Redux - YouTube
• Micrometer's RSocket-based Prometheus proxy version 1.3.0 has been released. This upgrades to RSocket 1.1, Spring Boot 2.4, and Java 11 runtime for the proxy container image. It's also using Paketo buildpacks to build the container now.
• Spring Boot can create a JFR dump
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M6 (aka Ilford) Is Available
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