speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips. In this installment, we're going to look at the new support just released for building Spring Boot applications with GraalVM. We've looked at GraalVM and native images in another Spring Tips when we looked at Spring Fu.

GraalVM is several things. It's a C1 replacement for a standard OpenJDK install. You can listen to this episode of my podcast, A Bootiful Podcast, with GraalVM contributor and Twitter engineer Chris Thalinger, for more details on this use of GraalVM. It lets you run regular Sring…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a crazy week so let's delay not even one second longer!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked with Microsoft’s Kushagra Thapar on Spring Data Cosmosdb
• Have you seen the new Spring Graal Native 0.6.0 support?
• In last week's Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Integration Kotlin DSL
• Want help on effectively pair programming remotely? Our experts are here to help
• This Month in RabbitMQ went out - don't miss these roundups!
• A nice post looking at when to Use Eirini, Quarks or KubeCF for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
• Apache Geode: A Quick History. Apache Geode, the open source project that underpins the Gemfire in-memory data-grid, has had a long and storied road to where it is now. You can use it easily with Spring Boot and the Spring Data for Apache Geode project - I did a Spring Tips video on the topic a little while ago…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we talk to Kushagra Thapar who is a senior software engineer at Microsoft working on the world-class, and world-wide Azure CosmosDB.

• Kushagra's LinkedIn
• The Spring Initializr
• Azure CosmosDB
• Azure Spring Cloud
• Spring Data CosmosDB

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing all right, all things considered! I miss you all.

OK, so, first things first: we're kicking off #TanzuTuesday today. Join us TODAY at 1pm PST/PDT and I'll introduce you to the wide world of Reactive Spring!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda - yes, that Joe Beda! Do not miss this!
• Spring Data for Apache Solr Discontinued
• Getting Started With RSocket: Spring Boot Channels
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M4 available now
• Spring Security 5.3.1, 5.2.3, 5.1.9, 5.0.15, 4.2.15 Released
• In last week's Spring Tips, I look at manipulating the Cloud Foundry PaaS with the Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Java Client Autoconfiguration
• Anyone interested in Spring Cloud Config with Microprofile? Vote on this issue
• Check out this blog on the future of Spring Data for Solr…

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we're going to take a look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Integration. I've covered both Spring Integration and Kotlin in other videos before. I am pretty sure I've also used Spring Integration from within a Kotlin-based Spring application, but this is the first time I've been able to cover a Kotlin DSL specifically for Spring Integration.

Spring Integration has been around for a long time - 13 years at least - and it serves a timeless use case: the integration of disparate systems and services. It's patterned after the seminal tome by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, Enterprise Integration Patterns. It's a fantastic tome, and I couldn't more enthusiastically recommend it as it serves, after a fashion, as the documentation required for understanding Spring Integration. Spring Integration codifies the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow cloud native at VMWare (@VMWare) and Kubernetes (@KubernetesIO) co-creator Joe Beda (@jbeda)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-meaty installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we've got a ton of stuff to look at so I won't belabor it!

• Tomorrow, the 1st of April, marks the 6 year anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0 going GA! Happy birthday my old friend!

• Spring Data Neumann goes RC1

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.6.RELEASE Available

• @DynamicPropertySource in Spring Framework 5.2.5 and Spring Boot 2.2.6

• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, and Reactor committer Sergei Egorov

• Spring Boot 2.2.6 available now

• Liveness and Readiness Probes with Spring Boot

• Spring Data Moore SR6 available now

• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at Spring Cloud Loadbalancer

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tip! In this installment, we look at something near and dear to my heart (and my @author tag!) - the Cloud Foundry Java client auto-configuration.

What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open-source PaaS. It has a lot of flexibility. I'm in love with it if I'm honest. It's simple. I love things like it that give me flexibility without requiring too many sacrifices at the altar of the YAML deity. It's an opinionated platform as a service. You give the platform an application, and it deploys them. You upload a spring boot app, and it figures out that the app is a standalone, self-contained, so-called "fat" .jar and it downloads the required JDK, configures the necessary amount of memory and then creates a filesystem with your…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker, and Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, and Reactor committer Sergei Egorov (@bsideup).

• TestContainers
• Apache Groovy
• project Reactor
• Sergei on Twitter (@bsideup)

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we're going to look at a new feature in Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Loadbalancer. Spring Cloud Loadbalancer is a generic abstraction that can do the work that we used to do with Netflix's Ribbon project. Spring Cloud still supports Netflix Ribbon, but Netflix Ribbons days are numbered, like so much else of the Netflix microservices stack, so we've provided an abstraction to support an alternative.

The Service Registry

For us to use the Spring Cloud Load Balancer, we need to have a service registry up and running. A service registry makes it trivial to programmatically query for the location of a given service in a system. There are several popular implementations, including Apache Zookeeper, Netflix's Eureka, Hashicorp Consul, and others. You can even use Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry as service registries. Spring Cloud provides an abstraction, DiscoveryClient…