Web applications and Project Loom

Engineering | Mark Thomas | February 27, 2023 | ...

Introduction

Project Loom aims to bring "easy-to-use, high-throughput, lightweight concurrency" to the JRE. One feature introduced by Project Loom is virtual threads. In this blog post, we'll be exploring what virtual threads mean for web applications using some simple web applications deployed on Apache Tomcat.

High-throughput / Lightweight

The first experiment was to compare the overhead associated with using Tomcat's standard thread pool to the overhead associated with using a virtual thread (Loom) based executor. The test environment used is detailed at the end of this post. Performance…

Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function

Engineering | Christian Tzolov | February 24, 2023 | ...

What is the Spring Cloud Function?

Spring Cloud Function is a SpringBoot-based framework allowing users to concentrate on their business logic by implementing them as Java Functions (i.e., Supplier, Function, Consumer). In turn the framework provides necessary abstraction to enable execution of these functions in various environments (e.g., REST, Streaming) as well as serverless environments such as AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, without having to worry about the underlying platform-specific details. This allows developers to focus on writing their business logic and let the framework handle…

From Spring Native to Spring Boot 3

Engineering | Sébastien Deleuze | February 23, 2023 | ...

Today, we are finishing to transition the Spring support for building native executables from the experimental Spring Native project to the official Spring Boot GraalVM native image support.

In practice, that means we are archiving the Spring Native GitHub repository and moving it to the https://github.com/spring-attic organization. There will be no new release of Spring Native (based on Spring Boot 2.x) and we are encouraging all Spring Boot users to migrate to Spring Boot 3.x to leverage its official native support.

SpringOne

If you missed SpringOne keynote, be aware that the recording of…

This Week in Spring - February 21, 20223

Engineering | Josh Long | February 21, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you? I almost forgot today was Tuesday! Here in the US, we had a three day weekend for President's day, and also I've been streaming for a few hours every day (or almost every day on my little YouTube channel) so the days kinda have blurred together. I'm so glad I caught a glimpse of the calendar or I might have missed this installment. We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right into it!

Also: next week I'll be in Dallas! Let me know if you wanna grab some code and coffee?

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2023

Engineering | Josh Long | February 15, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's early Tuesday morning for me. I'm preparing to head to Chicago, Illinois to meet some customers and have myself a grand ol' time in the windy city. I hope you're doing well, I certainly am.

This Week in Spring - February 7th, 2023

Engineering | Josh Long | February 07, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, as I write this and I'm so very glad to be talking to you. How're you doin'?

Some housekeeping: I'll be doing more live streams over on my YT channel - join me and we'll talk shop.

I'm going to be in Chicago, IL, next week, and am wondering about doing an in-person livestream folks while I'm there? Anybody wanna meet at a café or something for a little code and coffee? Hit me up!

Anyway, my friends, let's get on with this week's roundup:

An ever green, ever great way to learn Spring

Engineering | Josh Long | February 03, 2023 | ...

I could do this post every week. Wait, I do do this post every week! It's called This Week in Spring, and in it I recap a lot of interesting new bits of content on the internet that elaborate or introduce or innovate. I love those points of data. They help. But they're almost never a full-guided course. Now, obviously, there are lots of good training efforts out there, but I think you're going to like this one: the The Spring Academy. I mention this because I've got COVID, so I'm quarantining, at home, and always eager for fun stuff to watch. I just finished The Wire, and I'm rewatching The…

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