This Week in Spring - November 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 5th of November, 2024, and, um, I - an American - am desperately trying to keep calm and carry on. I did everything I can do (VOTE!), and so it's with considerable enthusiasm that I dive into this week's (hopefully distracting) roundup!

• Dr. David Syer announcing the Spring GRPC project
• a Spring Boot and GraalVM native image application, demonstrated by awesome Oracle GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko
• understanding the Spring Boot @SpringBootApplication annotation
• understanding the lifecycle of a Spring Boot application
• there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring developer!
• A New Developer's Journey, in 2024
• Super cool! Java 24 is targeting a fix to allow developers to synchronize code on virtual threads and avoid pinning