Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Ambassador Labs devrel director, InfoQ contributor, lifelong learner, and awesome human, and friend Daniel Bryant (@danielbryantuk).

• the Ambassador Office Hours
• Sign up for the Rapid Development with Azure Spring Cloud webinar that Microsoft's Julien Dubois and I are putting on April 15th, 2021.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doing alright, thank you. We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Join Julien Dubois and me for this look at a rapid development with Azure Spring Cloud
• A Bootiful Podcast: SpringFox creator Marty Pitt on Swagger, Vyne and Taxi lang, and much more
• A new Microsoft build of OpenJDK will become the default in Azure
• API Rate Limiting with Spring Cloud Gateway
• Blog: PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future
• Check out the new release of Spring Cloud SleuthOpenTelemetry support
• Ki is a New, More Flexible Kotlin Interactive Shell - I love this!
• Run Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes
• Spring Data 2021.0.0-RC1 and 2020.0.7 released
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One of the imperative architectural concerns is to protect APIs and service endpoints from harmful effects, such as denial of service, cascading failure. or overuse of resources. Rate limiting is a technique to control the rate by which an API or a service is consumed. In a distributed system, no better option exists than to centralize configuring and managing the rate at which consumers can interact with APIs. Only those requests within a defined rate would make it to the API. Any more would raise an HTTP “Many requests” error.

Spring Cloud Gateway (SCG) is a simple and lightweight component…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Swagger-SpringMVC (which eventually became SpringFox) creator and Vyne creator Marty Pitt (@marty_pitt).

• Reach Marty by email
• Vyne
• SpringFox

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's nearly April? Time sure flies when you're having fun! There's a lot of good stuff to get to this week, particularly around the nascent and just announced Spring Native project which people seem to love, so let's get to it!

• The amazing Andy Clement and I presented on Spring Native and GraalVM at JRush last week. Here's the recording
• A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time. Urushibara-san is a great technologist and an even better person.
• A neat Infoq article on Spring Native
• I like this German-language article on Spring Boot and container images called Container-Images: Abschied vom Dockerfile
• How to Debug Your Spring Native Applications
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to one of the most inspiring people in the technology world, a friend, and inspiration, Mr. Shigeru Urushibara (@urucrunch). Urushibara-san is a Java and Spring programmer and a general technology enthusiast. He's founder, president, and director of ULS Group Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Tokyo that is listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange and that employs hundreds of people. He's a friend of the Java community and we're honored to have him on the show.

Join Josh Long (@starbuxman), Nate Schutta, Mark Heckler (@mkheck), Cora Iberkleid (@ciberkleid), Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski), and Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) for this journey from code with Spring Boot to production on Kubernetes.

For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Friends, director of Spring engineering and Spring Native cofounder Andy Clement and I will be doing a presentation with Bellsoft's Dmitry Chuyko called Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three, that introduces how to build GraalVM native images for Spring Boot applications with the new Spring Native project. Do not miss this webinar on March 25th at 11 am.

• Join Spring Cloud for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling for this webinar, GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes, on March 25, 2021, at 9:00 AM PTA.
• Join VMWare Tanzu CTO James Watters for this webinar, What Is Tanzu?, on March 24th at 17:00 CET.
• A nice Japanese language blog on the just-announced Spring Native project
• Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones
• An Azure Spring Cloud Update: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud
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Hi, Spring fans! I hope you'll join the legendary Andy Clement (director of engineering on the Spring team, Spring/AspectJ/Spring Tool Suite/Eclipse contributor, and Spring Native cofounder) and me, well known ASCII art fan, for the upcoming JRUSH event.

At some point, after you've gotten the business logic just right and the ASCII art resplendent, you'll want to reduce data center spend and improve speed. And when this time comes, you're going to wish you had watched this presentation where Andy and Josh introduce the Spring Native project. You don't want regrets, do you, friend? Do the right thing. Be the change you want to see in the world: …