Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already square into the second month of 2021? We're 1/12th of the way through the year already! IT'S ALL GOING SO QUICK! So, I won't waste any further time, let's get to the roundup!

• This is a fantastic video by the legendary Brian Sam Boden on building a Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, with a React front end: Part 1
• 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware
• A Bootiful Podcast: Traceable's Pavol Loffay, creator of the Hypertrace Java agent
• GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java
• Handle R2DBC in Spring Projects, an article by Thibault MONEGIER du SORBIER
• I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG Meetup on February 16th, 2021
• New Year Goodies - Oracle JDBC 21.1.0.0 on Maven Central | Oracle Developers Blog…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

I think the first use I had for Spring, more than 15 years ago, was the JdbcTemplate, which eliminated the eye-watering and…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Hypertrace Java Agent creator Pavol Loffay (@ploffay) about telemetry, observability, and more.

Introduction

Batch processing has been a challenging area of computer science since its inception in the early days of punch cards and magnetic tapes. Nowadays, the modern cloud computing era comes with a whole new set of challenges for how to develop and operate batch workload efficiently in a cloud environment. In this blog post, I introduce some of the challenges a batch developer or architect may face when designing and running batch applications at scale and show how Spring Batch, Spring Boot and Kubernetes can tremendously simplify this task.

Challenges of Designing and Running Batch…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

We've all been there. There's some everyday string-manipulation routine you want, so you extract it out into a separate abstract class and expose it as a static method. Then, there's some factory method for building a java.util.Collection<T>, so you extract it out into a separate class and expose it as a static method. And eventually, you've got a whole collection of these things scoured about your codebase, and there's little to no cohesion across them. After all, there's just not that much to it, right? These are, essentially, only global functions, not really methods on stateful objects, …

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I type this I'm sitting on the amazing Tanzu Tuesday's stream as a (guest) cohost with Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) learning about tips and tricks for working with Spring Boot and Kubernetes from the Spring team's Oliver Hughes (@olliehughes82). If you missed it, then it - and all sorts of other content - is available for replays on our Tanzu Twitch.tv channel.

Now then, we've got a ton of good stuff to get to so let's gooo...

• Tomorrow, I'll be streaming with Reactor team member and RSocket committer Oleh Dokuka on Twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu - don't miss it!
• Mark your calendars! Call for Papers and registration for SpringOne 2021 open on Feb. 16. Sign up for updates
• A Bootiful Podcast - Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert on sustainable software
• Bootiful Application Monitoring with Azure Spring Cloud
• You can monitor Azure Spring Cloud Spring Boot apps and dependencies without any effort! Brought to you jointly by Microsoft and VMware
• YMNNALFT: Dimensional Metrics Accumulation with Micrometer
• …

This post was written by our friend on the Azure Spring Cloud team, the amazing Kylie Liang (@liangkylie). I interviewed her for the Bootiful Podcast in April 2019, too! -Josh

2020 was a busy year for Azure Spring Cloud service. Microsoft and VMware co-announced Azure Spring Cloud General Availability (GA). We were excited to see how Azure Spring Cloud helped customers focus on code and let us take care of the underlying infrastructure management, operation, and maintenance. We continue to prioritize our work according to customers’ requests and feedback. For example, 7 more regions were enabled, and Azure Spring Cloud service is now available in 18 regions of Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. In this blog, I’ll…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

The open web has long extended hope to those who wanted a commodity platform to build and deploy services and applications at…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert (@martinlippert) about sustainability in software, specifically, and I.T., generally.

• the slides to Martin's talk Sustainability in Software Engineering, as presented at EclipseCON 2020
• and here is the video for that talk