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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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to get into this week - even more so than usual! So, let's get into it!

Starting to put together topics for the next season of Spring Tips: what would you like to see discussed?

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) January 13, 2017

This week there are a lot of great SpringOne Platform 2016 replays available online thanks to our very own Pieter Humphrey!

• Don't miss Stéphane Maldini's SpringOne Platform (S1P) 2016 talk introducing Reactor 3.0
• or this S1P 2016 talk by Sebastien Deleuze and Stephane Maldini on reactive programming options for the JVM (introducing Reactor and RxJava, among others)
• Yahoo! Marcin just tweeted some exciting news: Pact support has been added to Spring Cloud Contract
• Noriaki Tatsumi ( from Capital One) gave a nice S1P 2016 talk on operating a high velocity organization with Spring Cloud
• Google's Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen put together a nice talk on using gRPC for Spring Developers
• in this S1P 2016 talk, Ben Hale, Paul Harris and Stephane Maldini introduce some …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and New York City talking to developers and toiling on the final edits to the O'Reilly book Cloud Native Java (almost there!). Also, marketing ninja Pieter Humphrey is ramping up the S1P 2016 replays, so fasten your seat belt and check the S1P 2016 YouTube playlist for the most current releases. We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Task ninja Glen Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.1 with a fast following, bug-fix only, 1.1.2 release.
• our latest and greatest Spring Boot team member Madhura Bhave just announced Spring Boot 1.5.0.RC1
• Spring Integration guru Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M2
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0 complete with a lot of niceties and - in particular a feature I've wanted forever - an easy way to build instances of the more sophisticated ItemReader and ItemWriter intances, including the FlatFileItemReader…

Update: a comprehensive Spring Boot + Kotlin tutorial is now available.

Following the Kotlin support on start.spring.io we introduced a few months ago, we have continued to work to ensure that Spring and Kotlin play well together. One of the key strengths of Kotlin is that it provides a very good interoperability with libraries written in Java. But there are ways to go even further and allow writing fully idiomatic Kotlin code when developing your next Spring application. In addition to Spring Framework support for Java 8 that Kotlin applications can leverage like functional web or bean…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're now squarely in 2017, and 0 as always - there is much to cover!

This is also the first week of the year. I note it with some pride because it also marks the 6th anniversary of the first installment of This Week in Spring, in January 2011, which I've since continued every Tuesday without fail come sickness, holiday, travel or otherwise. It's been a heckuva run and I'm excited to see what will grace This Week in Spring in the next 6+ years! I'm eternally grateful for all the people (from the community and internal to VMWare and now Pivotal) that have contributed to This Week in Spring over the years! For the last 3+ years my friend and Pivotal's own …

Welcome to a very special This Week in Spring! Every year we wrap up with a recap of highlights from the year. This year's no different! It's been a heckuva year, and the Pivotal Spring and Cloud Foundry teams seem to deliver bigger and better tech every passing day. If you've been following This Week in Spring then you'll no doubt be aware of the changes! It's hard to keep up, even for me, with the dizzying pace of releases!

So, here are the top five things I'd encourage people to review from 2016:

• Spring Boot: this year saw the release of Spring Boot 1.4 which in turn contains support for Spring Framework 4.3, Hibernate 5, Couchbase, Neo4J, and a slew of other niceties as discussed in the changelog. This year, in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9, Spring Boot enjoys even greater integration with the platform, with deep support for Spring Boot Actuators, among many other things being surfaces in the Apps Manager console. Also, the downloads for Spring Boot are through the roof, going from 2.4 million a month in November 2015 to 10.2 million a month in 201…

Hi Spring fans! I'm taking some time off for the holiday so there won't be a new Spring Tips until after the new year. If you're itching for something to watch and learn, here are some resources to tide you over.

Happy new year!

• the Spring YouTube channel is a wonderful resource with countless talks and videos from previous years' SpringOne2GX, SpringOne Platform and Cloud Foundry summit conferences, our year-long webinar program and even various meetups and so on. This is one of my absolute favorite resources that, thanks to our own Pieter Humphrey, has grown in leaps and bounds in the last several years, exceeding even the Java YouTube channel in subscribers!
• the Spring Tips YouTube Playlist - all the previous installments of Spring Tips are captured in this playlist. If you missed an episode or simply want to review, start here! So far, in 2016, we've looked at Spring Integration, Kotlin, Circuit Breakers, Spring-aware beans, functional reactive endpoints in Spring 5, Spring Cloud Stream, Cloud Foundry, JTA, Bootiful Dashboards, Demystifying Spring Boot, and …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Spring Tool Suite, your premier Eclipse-based destination for building Spring applications.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in the winter wonderland of Toronto, Canada, hanging out with the amazing Pivotal Labs Toronto office and working with some of the largest financial institutions in all of Canada as they transition to Spring Cloud and to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. I love seeing seemingly large, lumbering companies run at startup speeds and crave it.

This week is the week of Christmas for some in the world, followed shortly by the western western new year. If you celebrate either (or both) of them, then, on behalf of the Spring team, let me wish you the happiest of holidays! I, for one, can't believe we're now less than two weeks away from 2017 (and with it, the beginning of the 7th year writing This Week in Spring…