speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the many facets of Redis, the distributed data structure server. Spring supports Redis through the Spring Cache abstraction, Spring Session, the Spring message-listener container abstraction, and through the Spring Data Redis module.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France and I'll be in Mainz, Germany, next week for JAX and Linz, Austria for the DevOne event. If you're in any of these places then don't hesitate to reach out!

We've got so much to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Task and Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RC1
• Artem Bilan looks at what's new in the Spring Cloud GCP 1.0.0.M3 release.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced Spring Tool Suite 3.9.4
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb is cooking up a very interesting project to ensure code-formatting consistency for all Spring Boot projects. Interesting! (and still super early days yet..) Think of this as the Java and Spring Boot equivalent of gofmt.
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Lovelace M2. This release ships with updates for all store modules that contain new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Notable changes include: MongoDB 3.6 support for Change Streams, $jsonSchema, and Client Sessions (in preparation for MongoDB Transactions); Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and Tuple Types, along with newly introduced Lifecycle Callbacks; Upgrade to Apache Solr 7; Improved Connection Handling…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Atlanta, Indianapolis and Cincinnati! I'll be speaking at the Atlanta, GA Spring Meetup on Tuesday the 10th where I'll be looking about all things new, bootiful and cloud-native including reactive programming, Spring Web Flux, Spring Cloud Finchley, Spring Cloud Function and Project Riff. Then it's off to Indianapolis where I'll be doing the same talk on Thursday the 12th.

What a crazy week it's been! There's so much to get to this week. I want to call out, first, that there are some CVEs out there and if you haven't already, you should be updating urgently…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the reactive Cloud Foundry Java client. We'll see how to use it support applications that know how to deploy themselves into a cloud target.

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment (the first of 2018!) of Spring Tips we look at stream processing in Spring Boot applications with Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Streams and the Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Streams binder.

Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in beautiful Dallas, TX, for the Spring One Tour Dallas event which is, like so many of the other cities already, utterly and completely sold out! What a crowd!

Wow #SpringOneTour Dallas, you’re so #bootiful ! pic.twitter.com/SySCBw4UNX

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) April 3, 2018

And, so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework Juergen Hoeller has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are now available.
• Check out the PR supporting Pact v3 in Spring Cloud Contract.next. Now would be a good time to try it out and feedback!
• PCF 2.1 and the Quest for a One Pizza Ops Team
• Check out this shiny new Kotlin DSL for Spring Data Cassandra!
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb has published a nice look at property binding in Spring Boot 2.0
• Spring Batch 1.0.0. was released ten years and a week ago, on March 28th, 2018. Happy tenth anniversary, Spring Batch!
• Roy Clarkson has just announced that the Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.0.0.M2…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm hanging out in sunny San Francisco talking to local customers and working on more installments of the next season of Spring Tips.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Check this Pivotal showcase on object detection with Spring Cloud Stream.
• Spring Security SAML DSL lead Filip Hanik has just announced the 1.0.5.RELEASE of our SAML DSL project. This release works against Spring Security SAML 1.0.4.RELEASE. This release adds a simple Java configuration option to your existing Spring Boot applications.
• Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley.M9. This new release includes some nice features in Spring Cloud Gateway including support for rolling deployments and route refresh from service discovery heartbeats.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has …

Hi Spring fans, and welcome to the first day of the Spring season! This week I'm in San Francisco visiting some customers and just hanging out, working on new Spring Tips installments, enjoying the amazing weather. As if today wasn't exciting enough, Java 10 also shipped today! I know that all seems like enough already, but read on as we have a lot of good stuff this week!

• We want your feedback on this Spring Cloud Contract proposal to support fetching stubs over different protocols
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Gunnar Hillert has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4.0. The new release includes improved dashboards, versioned streams, a new stream deployment builder, support for Docker compose, security improvements, proxy server support for the shell, LDAP Role Mapping support and improved documentation, among other things. This is a massive release with a lot of good stuff, so don't miss it!
• Spring Security and OAuth-ninja Joe Grandja has just released Spring Security OAuth 2.3.0 which now supports Elliptic Curve signature verification in JwkTokenStore…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in blizzard-besieged Boston, Massachusetts, for the epic Spring One Tour Boston event. Unfortunately, due to this crazy snow storm / blizzard, the event's been postponed one day as we all grapple with the weather. Hope you were able to join the Spring Boot 2.0 launch webinar! If not the replay will be available here and don't forget to check out the launch blog!

Snow or no snow! The show must go on, at least here on the Spring blog, so without further ado:

• The Reactor team is looking for a motivated new engineer to join the team - apply now!
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Gunnar Hillert has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4 RC1
• Spring IO Platform Cairo-RC1 lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced the latest updates, including Spring Boot 2.0. Check it out and make sure works as you expect it to.
• I love this post by Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll on upgrading the Spring Initializr (http://start.spring.io) to Spring Boot 2.0.
• The Spring Data JDBC project has added @Modify for marking queries that perform DML or DDL. Modifying queries will return type boolean or Boolean…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this it's early morning Tuesday in Sydney, Australia, where I've been visiting with some of Pivotal's amazing customers, and I'm now preparing for my flight to Dubai, in six short hours, where I'll visit some more of Pivotal's amazing customers. Later this week I'll be in Bangalore, India, for the amazing Agile India conference, and then - early next week on Tuesday - I'll be in Boston, MA for the first SpringOne Tour event. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi, as usual!

This week we've got a lot of…