Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm alright. I've been recuperating from a COVID-19 infection. Today was the first day in a while that I woke up and wasn't short of breath. Most days, I've woken up, hacked a few wads of phlegm into the toilet, and then my breathing was fine. But today I woke up and wasn't short of breath in the first place. (I still hacked a few wads of phlegm). Thank goodness for vaccines, or I expect my experience of this virus would've been much worse as a lifelong asthmatic. Things are looking up!

And then, as if my fortunes couldn't get any better, I got to compiling this week's roundup and there's a ton of great…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j CEO and Spring Data cofounder Emil Eifrem (@emileifrem) .

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I hope you're doing well. You know, I've been thinking a lot about how to retain that zen-like peace that comes with a vacation spent on the beach. I got back from Hawaii eight days ago and I found it to be so very beautiful. Nature really sold it for me; the fresh air is everything. If you don't have ready access to nature - if you, like me, are in a giant city with the ongoing sound of car horns ("klaxons"), fire engines, traffic, and everything else that accompanies any big city - then may I invite you to breathe with me?

Just sit still for 30 seconds…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li on Azure, Spring Boot, Azure Spring Cloud, Spring integrations and more.

Hi, Spring fans! Redis is the swiss-army knife of databases and it integrates into Spring-based workloads with ease. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) and special guest star Brian Sam-Bodden (@bsbodden) look at just a few of the bootiful possibilities for Redis and Spring Boot.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August, 2021! We're nearly to 2022! And I am, for better or for worse, back from vacation! I am so happy to be back, but I do miss the sunkissed beaches of Hawai'i. Sigh. Anyway, let's get into it! We've got a ton of things to get into, so without further ado...

• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Spring Cloud
• Blog: Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview
• Join Pure Storage at VMworld 2021
• Cassandre is an open-source framework that makes it easy to create your crypto trading bot in Java. Our Spring boot starter takes care of exchange connections, accounts, orders, trades, and positions so you can focus
• Check out this Spring Security Authorization Server example
• Join Confluent Developer advocate Viktor Gamov for this look at …

Aloha, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh) about Azure Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Microsoft Azure and more.

Aloha, Spring fans, from the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. How're you doing? We've got a ton of stuff to look at so let's get to it!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to industry analyst, fascinating person, strategist, and storyteller Michael Coté
• I love this look at building a first application with RabbitMQ streams
• I loved this infographic by Dormain Drewitz on modernizing the mainframe
• Premiering Now: SpringOne Tour - July 2021: Do or Do Not, There is no try{} in Production
• Spring Boot 2.4.9 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.5.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1 is now available
• Spring Data is a 10 years old today the 23rd of July 2021!
• This Week in Spring - July 20th, 2021
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this July 2021 installment of SpringOne Tour, Josh Long, Cora Iberkleid, Angie Jones, Madhura Bhave, Bella Bai, Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Whitney Lee, and Nate Schutta look at the wide and wonderful world of testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

This event - a mini-conference if you will - is two hours and some change long and features dedicated segments from the industry's best, so grab a drink, a note pad, and let's get to it!