Hi, Spring fans! How're y'all doing? Can you believe we're almost halfway through this crazy little thing called 2021? Time sure flies when you're having fun! This week was no exception. I joined the my buddy Matt Raible and Brian Demeers today for the OktaDev Twitch channel and we hacked on making the Spring Boot starter for Okta work with Spring Native. The goal is that you should be able to bring your application unchanged with Spring Native, and this is yet another example of that working. We didn't know what issues we were going to face, but we managed to figure out the relatively minor…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Azure Developer Advocate Rory Preddy (@rorypreddy).

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm silly stoked! This week saw the release of Spring Native 0.10.0 and it is awesome! You absolutely have to check this release out. I put together an episode of Spring Tips, the most comprehensive of its kind, introducing (almost) everything you'll need to know about Spring Native and Spring Native 0.10.0 in particular. Start here. Spring Native is awesome and this is the comprehensive introduction I wish I'd had at the start.

The next time we meet in this humble column, next week, will be June 22nd, and by then we'll have passed summer solstice - the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Mikiel Agutu, technical lead for the Flyway team at Redgate software about database migrations and continuous delivery.

Hi, Spring fans! What's shaking? It's one of those weeks where, even though the thing I wanted to happen - a vacation with the family - didn't happen, what did happen - accidentally lots of free time with no meetings - has turned out wonderfully. It was all I could do to pry myself from the IDE to pull together this week's roundup, but I am glad I did! There's a ton of great stuff there. Let's dive into it.

• I love this post by the good Dr. David Syer: "Wiremock" for RSocket
• In this week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, JHipster creator and Microsoft Java Developer Advocacy manager Julien Dubois
• Kotlin 1.5.0 Release Community Event
• This is super interesting: OpenJDK on RISC-V - an update from Alibaba
• To all the readers of my little book so far: Thank you! Schiko on Twitter: "Reactive Spring" by @starbuxman is without a doubt the best programming book i've ever read. Thanks Josh! https://t.co/nAzdK4kNyn #springboot #Java" / Twitter
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to JHipster creator and Microsoft Java Developer Advocacy manager Julien Dubois (@juliendubois)

If you have an application that connects to an RSocket server at runtime, how do you test it? We need a way for a test to start a server and tell us where it is listening, and then we need to be able to register request and response examples (a.k.a. "contracts"). That’s what this project provides - it’s like Wiremock but for RSocket.

Getting Started

The easiest way to use the project is as a JUnit (Jupiter) extension, e.g:

@SpringBootTest
@ExtendWith(RSocketServerExtension.class)
class SocketsApplicationTests {
	...
}

With this extension installed the Spring Boot tests will run with an RSocket server listening on a port given by test.rsocket.server.port, so the test can connect directly to it, or (more likely) the code that it is testing will connect to it. You might need to tell it where to connect via the @SpringBootTest annotation, e.g. if the application is looking for a property at runtime called rsocket.port…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing well! I hope you're doing well, too. Can you believe we've just entered the month of June 2021? WHERE HAS THIS YEAR GONE ALREADY! It's insane. But, the march of Spring continues, and with each passing week a ton of new stuff to talk about arrives. Let's get into it!

• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Micrometer-lead Tommy Ludwig
• Announcing the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Terraform provider
• Cool to see an Azure Spring Cloud success story in the MSBuild keynote
• Get your reactive microservices to Kubernetes with Spring Boot and JHipster
• Michael Coté asks on Twitter: What's an API Gateway and why would you use it? Also, what does "business value" mean here? See the full interview with Rita Marinachi, Chris Sterling, and me to hear even more and also a how API gateways fit with service meshes.
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Micrometer-lead and observability guru Tommy Ludwig (@tommyludwig) about Tokyo, Japan; metrics; tracing; and so much more.

• the Micrometer project