Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at jOOQ (a fluent API for typesafe SQL query construction and execution) to quickly and easily interface with our SQL database.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Valentines Day for some, and so happy Valentines day to you! This week I'm in Memphis, Tennessee for business and then it's off to Saint Louis where I'll be presenting on Reactive Spring with my buddy Mark Heckler (join us!), then it's off to Atlanta, Georgia, ahead of next week's big DevNexus show. Check out what Pivotal is up to at the event!

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

• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin
• Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella has just announced that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M1
• Marcin Grzejszczak has just announced Spring Cloud Pipelines 1.0.0.M3 with complete support for blue-green deployment on Cloud Foundry
• check out this SpringOne platform 2016 talk on Spring Data Hazelcast repositories
• there's a good article on the Spring Boot Actuator support on Pivotal Web Services
• this S1P talk on streaming live data in the Hadoop ecosystem looks interesting
• Oleg Zhurakousky gives a nice look at using Apache NiFi with Spring…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at how to integrate distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and the OpenZipkin project.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it.

• Fred Melo is one of Pivotal's brightest and when he talks about data, people listen. Here's your chance to watch his SpringOne Platform talk on data microservices
• The RabbitMQ Team has been busy! The RMQ Java Client has some very nice new (non-breaking) new features in Metrics, logging and Java NIO, among other things.
• Expanding on the metrics support in RMQ Java Client 4.0, the Rabbit team blogs about using JMX, Spring Boot Actuator and Coda Hale's awesome DropWizard Metrics library.
• I liked this SpringOne Platform talk, from Confluent's Joe Kutner, I Can't Believe it's not a Queue: using Apache Kafka with Spring…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to process large amounts of sequential data using Spring Batch.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very busy week and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• first, the big news: Spring Boot 1.5 has just been released! The new release improves the integration with Cloud Foundry, features Spring Data Ingalls support, LDAP support, a loggers endpoint, and Apache Kafka auto-configuration support. Get started with Spring Boot now!
• Spring Data guru March Paluch put together a nice look at Spring Data Ingalls. The new release is packed with lots of great features including a 20-70% performance improvement, event publication for aggregate roots, improved pagination and so much more! Read the post!
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data Ingalls has gone GA! Hurray! See the release post for more…

As you probably have seen, we have just announced the GA release of Spring Data release train Ingalls. As the release is packed with way too many features to cover them in a release announcement, I would like to use this post to take a deeper look at the changes and features that come with the 15 modules on the train.

Housekeeping

A very fundamental change in the release train’s dependencies is the upgrade to Spring Framework 4.3 (currently 4.3.6) as the baseline. Other dependency upgrades are mostly driven by major version bumps of the underlying store drivers and implementations that need to…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the Spring Data Couchbase support in Spring Boot 1.4.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it: we've got an fresh batch of both new Spring Cloud software from the team and microservice themed S1P 2016 replays from Pieter Humphrey this week, so fasten your seat belt!

• Spring Cloud Data Flow product manager Sabby Anandan put together a great post on the Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1 release
• Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry lead Eric Bottard just announced the latest release supporting memory optimizations, Maven cache and disk optimizations, improved error handling, and task support.
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn.SR2 and Chelsea.M1
• Spring Integration Java DSL lead and all around great guy Artem Bilan just announced
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