Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long talks to his hero, longtime friend (9+ years and counting!), inspiration and a person who has made the JVM a better place to deploy software and the JVM community a better place for people to build software through his JavaSpecialists newsletter and through his amazing content: Dr. Heinz Kabutz. 'Nuff said. Enjoy!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it's already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies... or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
• …

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Swarna Podila (@skpodila) about Cloud Foundry, networks and Hashicorp, among other things.

Happy Thanksgiving!

• Hashicorp Cloud Platform
• Waypoint
• Cloud Foundry

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States and I feel like I've got a ton of things and a ton more people for which and for whom to be thankful, and a huge, constant part of that is you, dear community. I say this in this column all the time, but you - the community - are the main reason that Spring is worth doing. I know that I speak for the entire Spring team when I say: thank you! And, speaking for myself, I hope that, whether you're in the US celebrating Thanksgiving or anywhere else, that you…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dan North (@tastapod), creator of BDD, optimizer of teams and all around legend.

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already November 17th, 2020!? We're weeks away from Thanksgiving here in the US and then the end-of-year holidays. I, for one, can not believe it. You know what else is pretty wild? The first week of January will be ten years of writing This Week in Spring!

I've got a pretty busy appearance schedule between now and the end of the year though. I'd love to see you at any of these events.

And, with all that out of the way, we've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot 2.4 and living legend, CTO, and friend John Davies
• A Seal of Approval: Project Pinniped
• AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
• Biased locking Obsoletion
• BuildKit CLI for kubectl: A New Way to Build Container Images
• Case Study: Elasticsearch sink
• Episode 7 “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz
• Implement a rolling index strategy with Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1 | sothawo
• Matt Raible looks at ways to secure your applications with Spring Security
• New Project Lanai Early Access build
• OpenJDK Projects Give Rise to Innovations in JDK 15 and Beyond
• …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the week that was, talks about the JUST released Spring Boot 2.4, and then talks to industry legend and larger-than-life friend John Davies (@jtdavies)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 10th, 2020, as I write this and I, for one, can not believe that we're closer to 2021 than we are to 2019 at this point. That's insane. Time has absolutely rocketed by in some senses and stood utterly still in others. Odd year, this one.

I hope you're all doing well! I'm at the Reactive Summit today (virtually, of course). This afternoon I was on a wonderful panel with all sorts of folks from around the ecosystem. And soon, around 17:30 or so, if memory serves, I'll be speaking about RSocket and its use in…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring legend Thomas Risberg (@trisberg).

Hi, Spring fans! I hope you're all doing well, staying safe, healthy and happy. Today's election day here in the US, so I am super happy to have the chance to dive into this week's roundup as a bit of a distraction. We've got a ton to get through today, so let's!

• I really enjoyed last week's A Bootiful Podcast episode with Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen
• Spring Integration 5.4 goes GA; some other Integration releases
• Spring Boot 2.4.0.RC1 is now available
• Notice of Permissions Changes to repo.spring.io, Fall and Winter, 2020
• Congrats, Carsten Hoffmann, on your first live-coding presentation, and congrats on starting your work from my second favorite place on the internet: start.spring.io!
• Oleh Dokuka on Twitter: "Woo! ? ? New RSocket 1.1.0 is GA. It includes, among other things, 10x better performance than before, reworked loadbalance API and implementation, a new RSocketClient…