This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2018
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm speaking at the San Diego JUG with Mario Gray on testing with Spring. Then I'm off to the IBM Index conference here in San Francisco where I'll be talking about building reactive microservices, and then it's off to Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, where I'll be talking about Kotlin and testing. I hope you'll join me and say hi if you're nearby.
- Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.4.
- Check out this whitepaper on building flexible Spring Cloud Data Flow data pipelines
- It's now even easier to use Spring Cloud Stream from the Spring Initializr: now you need only choose a binder implementation (Kafka, or RabbitMQ) and then choose whether you want the implementation to be reactive or not, and you're off to the races!
- Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M3. The new release includes smarter default behavior when an application closes, the ability to restrict tasks from running concurrently, …