This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | February 13, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it!

Spring Tips: Spring Boot Testjars

Engineering | Josh Long | February 08, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the brand new Spring Boot Testjars project, which greatly simplifies standing up and reusing satellite Java-based services like other Spring Boot-based microservices or infrastructure like the Spring Authorization Server.

#springboot #java #java21 #testjars #oauth #docker #architecture #softwaretesting #microservices

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Engineering | Josh Long | February 08, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs (like the one behind ChatGPT) and tools to support the RAG (retrieval augmented generation) pipeline.

#ai #springboot #artificialintelligence #java #graalvm #cloud #java21 #postgresql

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Engineering | Josh Long | February 07, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it!

  • in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge) that asks people to - using nothing but barebones JDK Java types - load one billion rows of weather station telemetry data. This was a race to the bottom as hundreds of entries flooded in and we eventually got implementations that loaded and analyzed and processed thirteen gigabytes of data in less than 1.5 seconds. It's a very cool effort and Gunnar was kind enough to share some of the learnings we can take from the results
  • In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at the fantastic new Spring AI

This Week in Spring - January 30th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! (Sadly, he passed in 2019). I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good as all the cool stuff we've got in this week's roundup! Let's dive right into it.

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