Hi, Spring fans! In this (relatively quick) installment, recorded live from the lovely Spring I/O 2023, Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li about some of the latest and greatest in the Azure ecosystem for Spring developers.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are key components of securing communications between systems in a layered or service-oriented architecture. Spring Boot applications in such an architecture often accept incoming network connections or create outgoing connections, and developers are tasked with configuring applications to work in such a secure environment.

If you've ever worked with the Java security and SSL APIs, you're probably aware that this is not a particularly fun task. It often involves multiple trips to stackoverflow.com to copy and paste code. There are a…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things as much as possible. In the case of at least one Vue.js application, this meant some major reworking of the codebase. It's also meant rewriting lots of Github Actions with the new best-practices and patterns, which I confess has been painful.

Once everything's fully migrated (soon, I hope!), I think a…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware.com) talks to Spring Boot team member Moritz Halbritter (@m_halbritter)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This installment I write on the day of my daughter's High School graduation, an auspicious day indeed! There's a lot to get through this week, though, and I have a graduation to get to, so let's dive right in!

• Spring Authorization Server is on Spring Initializr! This is my favorite technical news of the week, by far! I loved it so much that I even invited its author, Steve Riesenberg, on my little show. He and I (well, mostly him) did an awesome live demo setting up an Authorization Server, a Resource server, and OAuth OIDC client with login support. We did it all from scratch using Spring Boot 3.1, too! Check this out!
• Spring Cloud 2022.0.3 (aka Kilburn) Is Available
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on the latest and greatest in Java
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando, recorded live from the amazing Spring I/O show in Barcelona, Spain!

Today, I'm excited to announce that you have a new superpower: creating applications with Spring Authorization Server on Spring Initializr!

That's right, it's time to begin your OAuth2 journey and become the hero you always knew you could be! In this post, I'll explain how you can get the most from your new superpower and where to go to learn more.

What is Spring Authorization Server?

Spring Authorization Server is an open-source framework built on top of Spring Security that allows you to create your own standards-based OAuth2 Authorization Server or OpenID Connect Provider. It implements…

In March, we introduced the Consumption pricing plan for Azure Spring Apps allowing you to start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Standard Dedicated plan! The Standard Dedicated plan provides a fully managed, dedicated environment for running Spring applications on Azure. This plan offers you customizable compute options (including memory-optimized), single tenancy, and high availability to help you achieve price predictability, cost savings, and performance for running Spring applications at scale.

In 2019, Microsoft and Pivotal (now VMware) announced Azure Spring Apps, a fully managed service for Spring apps. We set out to solve many of the common challenges enterprise developers face when running Spring apps at scale. The service manages dynamic scaling, security patching, out-of-the-box instrumentation for monitoring, and more so developers can focus on their apps. Since then, we’ve worked with many customers including Bosch, Digital Realty, FedEx, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan Stanley, National Life, Raley's, and Swiss Re…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 23rd and, famously, nothing major has happened in the last week OH WAIT WE RELEASED SPRING BOOT 3.1! Have you checked it out yet? It's dope. I did a Spring Tips installment looking at some of its features here that you might like.

Friends, we've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Boot 3.1 is now available!
• If you want to learn all about Spring Boot 3.1 (and why wouldn't you?), watch this Spring Tips installment: Go fast with Spring Boot 3.1
• Spring Boot 3.0.7 available now, fixing CVE-2023-20883. There's also a Spring Boot 2.7x line fix for the same issue and one for Spring Boot 2.5
• Happy 28th birthday, Java!
• Tomorrow! I'll be doing a webinar with Marcus Hellberg over at Vaadin called Bootiful development with Spring Boot 3 and Vaadin
• Matt Raible's updated his article showing how to build a beautiful CRUD application with Spring Boot and Angular
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Grubhub's John Burns…