Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Spring time is here! Astrologically and meteorlogically, speaking, of course. I love this season. Longer days, greener grass, bluer skies, and more. Next week, my family and I are headed to Hawaii for some much-needed R&R while my daughter has a week off from school. (It's hard to believe she might be going to college in another state in 18 short months! We need all the family vacations we can get together! T_T)

As always, we've got a lot to look at today, so let's dive right into it!

• First thing: Java 18 was released today! There are a ton new features, including UTF-8 by default, a simple HTTP server, a reimplementation of core reflection to use method handles, an SPI for internet resolution, an easier JavaDoc attribute to simplify the inclusion of code snippets in JavaDoc comments, and previews of a bunch of amazing new features including pattern matching for switch, Project Panama, the new Vector API (as in matrix multiplication, not a collection, exactly). There's also a switch you can use to disable finialization and finalizers, which you might want to try now to see if your application continues to do the right…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Elastic's Felix Barnsteiner about APM for Spring developers.

• make log onboarding easier. Start here.
• use this to make slow methods show up in traces

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the joy of writing fast, native CLI applications with Spring Boot, Spring Shell, GraalVM, and Spring Native

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a good amount of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, an amazing new web framework from Vaadin
• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
• OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a really nice look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves"
• Kai Tödter announced that he's released version 1.3.0 of JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• I'm honored to be counted among many amazing folks in this list of The Top 100 Influencers in #DevRel
• Binaries for #OpenJDK 11.0.14.1 are out. This release addresses an issue with the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former fellow Spring Developer Advocate at Tanzu, and current Java Developer Advocate at Microsoft, friend, ally, and altogether amazing human being, Mark Heckler (@mkheck).

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment we'll look at the new frontend/backend web framework from the fine folks at Vaadin: Hilla!

code is available at github.com/spring-tips/vaadin-hilla

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'?

• A Bootiful Podcast: Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang
• Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.1 GA Release
• GraphQL with Spring Boot java
• Hidden gems in Java 16 and Java 17, from Stream.mapMulti to HexFormat
• Introducing Spring Native for JHipster: Serverless Full-Stack Made Easy | Okta Developer
• Mar 10 - Getting Started with Spring Authorization Server
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.0-M1 Released
• Spring Cloud Gateway CVE reports published
• Spring Cloud Square 0.4.1 has been released
• Spring Tips: Reliable Database…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This preview release contains many improvements and bug fixes - check out the release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in 2.10.0-M1

• Update to Spring Boot 2.6.3 and Spring Cloud 2021.0.0
• Provide a Carvel package for easy installation into k8s
• Starting from 2.10, dropping support for mysql database in favour of MariaDB

Stay in touch...

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Akka lead and deputy CTO at Lightbend, engineering director at Sinch, Reactive Streams cofounder, the one and only legendary Viktor Klang (@viktorklang)