Ryan Baxter

Ryan Baxter

Currently, Ryan is working as a software engineer as part of the Spring Cloud team. Ryan has a passion for sharing what he learns via social media, including Twitter and his blog (http://ryanjbaxter.com), as well as in person at conferences. When he’s not coding, Ryan likes spending time with his daughter, ice fishing, running obstacle course races, and watching the Red Sox.

Recent Blog posts by Ryan Baxter

Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M4 (aka Ilford) Is Available

Releases | October 07, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3. Please see [the wiki] for a list of all breaking changes in this release train. See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project. Spring Cloud Commons The bootstrap phase is no longer enabled by default. If your project requires it…

Spring Cloud Hoxton Released

Releases | November 28, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train Spring Cloud Hoxton.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.2.1.RELEASE. Documentation Changes The Hoxton.RELEASE docs have a new landing page, new theme and a single-page, multi-page and a pdf version.The landing page will link you to the documentation for the specific project you are interested in…

Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR4 Released

Releases | November 19, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 4 (SR4) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR4 is built upon Spring Boot 2.1.10.RELEASE. Spring Cloud Kubernetes Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Commons Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Openfeign Upgraded to OpenFeign 10.4.0 Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Contract Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Vault Dependency and documentation changes Bug…

Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC2 Released

Releases | November 12, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC2 is built upon Spring Bot 2.2.1.RELEASE. Spring Cloud Vault Issues Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker Added property to disable Resilience4J auto-configuration Spring Cloud Gateway Added a filter which uses the new Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker library to provide circuit…

Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC1 Released

Engineering | October 25, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC1 is built upon Spring Boot 2.2.0.RELEASE, please use this release when using Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC1. Spring Cloud Vault Support for PCF authentication. Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker Added auto-configuration to collect circuit breaker metrics when using…

Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 Released

Releases | September 12, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information. All issues closed in this release across all projects can be found in the Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 project on GitHub Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train New Load Balancer Implementations Spring Cloud Greenwich.M3 is the first release containing both blocking and non-blocking load balancer client implementations as an…

Spring Cloud Hoxton.M2 Released

Releases | August 19, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information. In addition you can view the GitHub Project For Hoxton.M2. Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train Spring Cloud Hoxton.M2 builds upon Spring Boot 2.2.0.M5. Documentation Changes The Hoxton.M2 docs have a new landing page as well as a new theme. The landing page will link you to the documentation for the specific project you are…

Spring Cloud Edgware.SR6 Released

Releases | May 29, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 6 (SR6) of the Spring Cloud Edgware Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Edgware release notes for more information. Edgware End Of Life Reminder As a reminder, the Edgware release train will reach EOL status on August 1st, 2019. Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train Spring Cloud Netflix Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Sleuth Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Config Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Commons Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Contract Bug Fixes Spring Cloud Vault Upgraded to…

Introducing Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker

Engineering | April 16, 2019 | ...
Background When using a microservices architecture to build our applications, it is very common to end up with a pretty complex dependency tree amongst services. If the service down the dependency tree encounters an issue that causes it to start to respond slowly, it ends up causing a set of issues that cascade up the dependency tree. As more and more requests come in to the application, more and more resources may be consumed by waiting for the slow service to respond. Even worse, the additional load being put on the slow service may exacerbate the problem. To help alleviate the effect of…

Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR1 is now available

Releases | March 07, 2019 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 (SR1) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train Spring Cloud Netflix Issues Spring Cloud Stream Bug fixes Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry Issues Spring Cloud Commons Issues Spring Cloud OpenFeign Added Spring Data pagable support Issues Spring Cloud Task Bug fixes Spring Cloud Sleuth Issues Spring Cloud Aws Logging and formatting changes Spring…

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