Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. We've all been there. There's some everyday string-manipulation routine you want, so you extract it out into a separate…

This post was written by our friend on the Azure Spring Cloud team, the amazing Kylie Liang (@liangkylie). I interviewed her for the Bootiful Podcast in April 2019, too! -Josh 2020 was a busy year for Azure Spring Cloud service. Microsoft and VMware co-announced Azure Spring Cloud General Availability (GA). We were excited to see how Azure Spring Cloud helped customers focus on code and let us take care of the underlying infrastructure management, operation, and maintenance. We continue to prioritize our work according to customers’ requests and feedback. For example, 7 more regions were…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I type this I'm sitting on the amazing Tanzu Tuesday's stream as a (guest) cohost with Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) learning about tips and tricks for working with Spring Boot and Kubernetes from the Spring team's Oliver Hughes (@olliehughes82). If you missed it, then it - and all sorts of other content - is available for replays on our Tanzu Twitch.tv channel. Now then, we've got a ton of good stuff to get to so let's gooo... Tomorrow, I'll be streaming with Reactor team member and RSocket committer Oleh Dokuka on…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. The open web has long extended hope to those who wanted a commodity platform to build and deploy services and applications at…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert (@martinlippert) about sustainability in software, specifically, and I.T., generally. the slides to Martin's talk Sustainability in Software Engineering, as presented at EclipseCON 2020 and here is the video for that talk

This is a guest post authored by our friend, Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh Hi, Spring fans! We are excited to announce that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is now fully integrated into Azure Spring Cloud, powered by Application Insights. Azure Spring Cloud is jointly built, operated, and supported by Microsoft and VMware. It is a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications that lets you focus on building the applications that run your business without the hassle of managing infrastructure. APM in Azure Spring Cloud offers in-depth performance monitoring for your Spring…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. It's 3 AM. Do you know where your production KPI Metrics are? You can't improve that you can't measure, and metrics are an…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. What’s new in Spring Boot 2.4 A Bootiful Podcast - Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky YMNNALFT: Easy RPC with RSocket YMNNALFT: Express Yourself with SpEL Check out the Sentry Spring Boot starter Developing Spring Boot applications with Kotlin on Google Cloud JEP draft: Primitive Objects (Preview) @__jpr has integrated Hotwire into a Spring Boot environment New Loom Early Access Build No matter what the usecase, Azure has your Java apps covered On the JetBrains Blog…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. Integrating two services separated by a common, potentially volatile, and overwhelmed network is one of the most challenging…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky (@z_oleg).