NOTE: this post was written by our friend Kylie Liang (@liangkylie) from the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team. Thanks, Kylie! We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale features. Both are critical to securely running production workloads at scale on the Azure Spring Cloud service. Secure Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Network With the Managed Virtual Network feature, you can provision the Azure Spring Cloud service in your virtual network which enables: Isolation of Azure Spring Cloud apps and service runtime…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to inspiration, legend and fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones (@techgirl1908). Also: Java 16, the R2DBC driver for Oracle database, Spring Native (GraalVM!), and Bootiful Cassandra!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's dive right in! Announcing Spring Native Beta!. This is by far the most important bit to come out of the last week! There is SO MUCH good stuff to ponder here. Spring Native is a set of hints that help GraalVM's native-image facility turn your dynamic Java code into a lightning fast, super lightweight, machine architecture-specific binary that you'll definitely want to invite to your next Docker container party. Tons of stuff just works out of the box. Native compilation…

Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices. Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on scaling properly, security, deployment, and cost requirements. Many of these customers…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to FF4J project creator and DataStax Astra SDK engineer Cedrick Lunven (@clunven).

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Tomorrow is the day of Spring One Tour - do not miss this event! We've also got a lot to get into this week so, without further ado... In last week's installment of a A Bootiful Podcast, I talk Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling on API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud and more Tanzu Observability for Wavefront (formerly Wavefront) delivers scalable observability as a service where Spring developers can build analytics-driven dashboards based on multi-sourced data including metrics, traces…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling (@csterwa) about API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've finally managed to get my joshlong.com/feed.html page working again so if you're curious about what I'm doing, check this feed out. We've got a really great roundup this week, so let's get into it. Check out our very own Mark Heckler’s new book “Spring Boot Up and Running”! A Bootiful Podcast: Spring legend Greg Turnquist on Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, CI, and so much more. Check out this first new installment of Spring Tips in which I revisit Spring Cloud Gateway. This episode features a long, detailed look at all…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring legend Greg Turnquist (@gregturn) about Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, CI, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's been exciting and only going to get more exciting as the days carry on. Tomorrow, the 24th of February, I'll be participating in a panel with Angie Jones, Daniel Bryant, Stefania Chaplin, and Jonathan Harris on how to debug and fix issues so that it doesn't block production. Tomorrow, I'll_also_ be streaming on Twitch.tv around noon PST. Join us! Alright, without any further ado, this week's roundup! Enjoy! Announcing Spring Cloud for Kubernetes As part of that release, I put together a Spring Tips video…