This Week in Spring - February 6th

Engineering | Josh Long | February 07, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it!

  • in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge) that asks people to - using nothing but barebones JDK Java types - load one billion rows of weather station telemetry data. This was a race to the bottom as hundreds of entries flooded in and we eventually got implementations that loaded and analyzed and processed thirteen gigabytes of data in less than 1.5 seconds. It's a very cool effort and Gunnar was kind enough to share some of the learnings we can take from the results
  • In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at the fantastic new Spring AI

This Week in Spring - January 30th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! (Sadly, he passed in 2019). I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good as all the cool stuff we've got in this week's roundup! Let's dive right into it.

This Week in Spring - January 23rd, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | January 22, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from CERN, home of the famous Large Hadron Collider, where I'm speaking again at the VOXXED Days CERN 2017 event. It's been an amazing almost week here in lovely Switzerland, first in Lugano (for VOXXED Days Ticino), and now in Geneva.

I'm super excited to be here, but all this wonderful scenery has only made it more difficult to keep up with what has been a very exciting week indeed in the community. Let's dive right into it, we have a ridiculous amount of stuff to look into!

Spring Security 6.3 Adds Passive JDK Serialization/Deserialization for Seamless Upgrades

Engineering | Marcus Hert Da Coregio | January 19, 2024 | ...

In the early versions of Spring Security, a deliberate decision was made to avoid providing any guarantee of compatibility for serialized classes (via JDK serialization) between different versions of the project. This decision primarily took into account the context of RMI, with the recommendation being that both the server and client should use the same version of Spring Security.

As more apps depend on persistent sessions and technologies like Spring Session, the problem with inconsistent serialization becomes a bigger deal. Persistent sessions mean saving user sessions by turning them into…

This Week in Spring - January 16th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | January 16, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 16th of January already! We're closer to February than not! I can hardly believe it.

As always, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

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