Hi, Spring fans! What a week! I've just returned from Prague, the Czech Republic, where I was for the epic Geecon Prague 2019 event. (Thanks for voting my talk on Reactive Spring the #1 talk, Prague!). Now I'm in Nantes, France, the DevFest Nantes show. I'd never been to Prague and I've never been to Nantes. So how's that for cool first-time appearances in one week? I'll be speaking about testing here. Tonight I fly to Paris, Fr, for customer meetings. Then I fly on Thursday to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Joker conference, where I'll be presenting on testing and I'll be co-presenting with…

Last year right in the middle of SpringOne Platform 2018, I posted the first post in this series, _ The Reactive Revolution at SpringOne Platform 2018 (part 1/N)_, which looked at some of the big features we'd just dropped at SpringOne Platform 2018. I wanted to follow up and revisit that blog and the concepts I'd introduced last year, and show just how far we've come in the intervening year. TL;DR: things are much easier!

R2DBC

Last year, we announced our work on trying to support a standard for reactive SQL data access with a new project called R2DBC. Traditional approaches to SQL data…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rafael Winterhalter (@rafaelcodes) about Bytebuddy; Mockito; the JVM; bytecode; Oslo, Norway; and so much more.

• ByteBuddy
• Mockito
• JavaZone

Hi, Spring fans! WHEW! What a week! Last week was the insane SpringOne Platform 2019 event, from which I am still recovering! Then I flew home, hosted Spring team member and Micrometer lead and friend Tommy Ludwig in San Francisco, and prepared to fly out for meetings and user group appearances on Monday (in Stuttgart, Germany) and Tuesday (in Amsterdam).

I prepared, and got into the Uber going to San Francisco airport when I got a call from my brother saying my 81-year-old dad wasn't doing well (thanks to everyone for the well-wishes!) and was rushed to the hospital. I had to, regretfully…

Hi, Spring fans! In this SpringOne Platform 2019 episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) interviews Spring mad scientist Andy Clement (@andy_clement) on AspectJ, SpEL, Eclipse, the new Graal native image feature, being an Iron-Man triathlete, and more.

• Andy Clement on Twitter
• the Spring Expression Language
• AspectJ
• the Graal native image feature

It's here it's finally here! My favorite time of the year! Happy SpringOne Platform week! This week I'm in amazing Austin, TX talking to anybody who wants to about all things Spring. There have been a ton of amazing things announced at this show but one thing I've been excited to share with y'all is that we just announced the new Azure Spring Cloud runtime. (More on that in the links below)

I've been busy! I'm doing one talk with Microsoft on Azure Spring Cloud, and another with Okta / Google on simplifying the dev lifecycle. Also, I'm hosting the keynote tomorrow morning. So much to do, so…

Hi Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) interviews Oracle's Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW) about his new book (on developer advocacy) "Developer, Advocate!"

Oh emm geee y'all! We just released Spring Framework 5.2, complete with new RSocket support, and a slew of projects have followed suit in the intervening... day! I expect we'll see more soon, followed not too far behind by Spring Boot! And, of course, next week is the biggest week in all of Springdom every week: SpringOne Platform 2019!

I can't wait to get there, but first I'm off to Taipei for the JCCConf. THere's a ton to get to let's dive right in!

• Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.RELEASE is released!
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.0.M2 Released
• Spring Data Lovelace SR11 released
• Spring Framework 5.2 goes GA
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 5.1.10 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.0.M3 Released
• How to configure RSocket security in a Spring Boot application with Spring Security - Stack Overflow
• twitter.com
• https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/1178773296839565312
• Reactive programming with Neo4j - Hantsy - Medium
• …

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, industry legend, New Delhi JUG leader, author of several books on Java and Java certification, teacher, and @Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta (@eMalaGupta) about @Java, learning new features in Java, and more.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, a weekly roundup where I get to swim through the great content in the ecosystem and learn things and hopefully share interesting tidbits with you all. I mark my calendar by the number of This Week in Springs, so imagine my elation to realize looking at the calendar that we're really close to the epic SpringOne Platform 2019! I can't believe it!

The event takes place soon - October 7–10, 2019 - in Austin, Texas. That's just around the corner, but I've still got a few places to get to. I'm in Madrid, Spain, for the epic…