Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in yummy, sunny Jakarta, Indonesia at the moment, preparing for a week of meetings and the SpringOne Tour Indonesia event later this week. I'll also be speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 20th, 2023 . If you're in either of these regions, please come out and join me for what is sure to be a ton of fun on our journey to production!

Anyway, we've got a ton of stuff to dive into this week, so let's get to it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains' Anton Arhipov on IntelliJ, Java, and so much more
• Active Health Check strategies with Spring Cloud Gateway
• A fluid, functional-style, non-reactive HTTP client for Spring: Introduce RestClient? spring-projects/spring-framework@0820210
• Logging in Spring Boot with Loki - Piotr's TechBlog
• How I deleted more than 1000 lines of code using Spring Retry
• ELK + Spring Boot: A Guide to Local Configuration
• the new Spring Cloud Gateway for Spring MVC.fn looks amazing!
• Interesting repository: …

Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset, Azure and VMware Tanzu have been trusted partners to customers for running mission-critical Java and Spring workloads. Our commitment and fondness for the Java Spring developer community have never wavered.

Microsoft and VMware Tanzu Collaboration Continues

Microsoft collaboration with the Spring team…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long talks to Jetbrain's developer advocate Anton Arhipov, recorded live from the amazing Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain!

Active health check strategies with Spring Cloud Gateway

Nowadays, applications are built as a collection of small independent upstream services. This accelerates development and allows modules to be focused on specific responsibilities, increasing their quality. This is one of the main advantages of using a microservice approach. However, jumping from one service to another can add extra latency, and this latency can be dramatically higher when the services are not responding.

If you run microservices, you want to prevent your upstream services from being called when they are not working…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop.

If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Spring Boot 3.x with Josh Long, Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 6:00 PM. It's going to be a ton of fun!

I'll be doing a SpringOne Tour event next week in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the 13th of July. Don't miss this!

We've got a crazy busy roundup to get to so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Philipp Krenn
• Blog: Verifying Container Image Signatures Within CRI Runtimes
• Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI
• Get started with Spring Boot and Auth0
• The IntelliJ IDEA Blog has a nice post titled Reactive Programming Made Easy?
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.8 (aka Jubilee) Is Available
• Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 are now available
• Want to learn more about what makes Axon and Spring work so well together? Join Allard Buijze and I as we delve into it in this AxonIQCon 2023 keynote: register now!
• Sébastien did a nice demo looking at Spring Boot and CRaC: …

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy!

Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is the most popular Java framework in the market, known for its simplicity, design patterns and focus on productivity for developing enterprise-grade applications. In this blog, we delve into the exciting realm of leveraging Spring with Azure OpenAI to unlock a new realm of possibilities. You can…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Elastic's Philipp Krenn, live from Spring IO 2023 in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about.

First, yesterday I did a joint presentation with my friend the one the only the amazing Trustin Lee, creator of Netty and lead of the Armeria Project over at LINE corporation. LINE is a super popular social messaging application used a lot in Korea and in Japan. It was a ton of fun collaborating with, and copresenting with, him…

Introduction

This is a guest blog post by Gerrit Meier from Neo4j who maintain(s) the Spring Data Neo4j module.

A few weeks ago version 1.2.0 of Spring (for) GraphQL was released with a bunch of new features. This also includes even better integration with Spring Data modules. Motivated by those changes, more support in Spring Data Neo4j has been added, to give the best experience when using it in combination with Spring GraphQL. This post will guide you on creating a Spring application with data stored in Neo4j and GraphQL support. If you are only partial interested in the domain, you can…