Aloha, my friends, from Hawai'i, where I'm currently on vacation! And, because I'm on vacation, I'll cut to the chase: there's a lot of great stuff to get to this week (surprise!)
But first, a friendly turtle I met the other day:
You're welcome. Now then, where were we? Oh right!
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to author, prolific public speaker, an architect's architect, and one of the most interesting people I get to bump into, and learn from, in this wacky, wild, and wonderful ecosystem of ours: Simon Brown (@simonbrown).
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at some key features made possible by the new Spring Integration 5.5 release, including the new Spring .zip archive support and the new Spring Native hints supporting GraalVM native images
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm heads-down, hurriedly making final preparations for tomorrow's SpringOne Tour episode installment. This is going to be SO MUCH FUN. Do NOT miss this show tomorrow morning, 10AM California time. I'll be there, along with my friends Madhura Bhave, Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Bella Bai, Whitney Lee, Core Iberkleid, Nate Schutta, and special guest star Angie Jones.
We look forward to seeing you there and we'll explore the wide and wonderful world of continuous delivery, testing and more together.
It's Matt Raible! I love talking to Matt Raible, and I'll bet you would too. He's one of the good ones, people. One of the legends of the Java and JavaScript communities. One of the greats. Enjoy!
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at how to build smarter HTTP clients for your Spring Boot microservices with Spring Cloud Square, Retrofit, and OKHTTP.
I am very happy to announce the creation of the Spring GraphQL project and the availability of an initial milestone towards a 1.0 release. The project integrates GraphQL Java and Spring and was developed in collaboration between both teams.
Today is GraphQL Java's 6th birthday! One fundamental decision I made from the start was to leave any HTTP and IO aspects as a separate concern. GraphQL Java has always been "just" an engine to execute GraphQL requests. The decision has paid off but the obvious downside is the need to create your own HTTP…
Following the Spring GraphQL project announcement and the availability of a 1.0 milestone, this blog post aims to provide more details.
Introduction
If you're looking to get started, please head over to our reference documentation and read the "Boot Starter" section, or run the samples.
If you don't know much about GraphQL, there are plenty of good resources. You can start at graphql.org/learn.
GraphQL is widely adopted and in "Early Majority" based on the InfoQ Architecture Trends for 2020. It provides an alternative to REST APIs that is more focused on data, and provides a schema and a query language for clients to use. The appeal from a client perspective is clear in this State of JavaScript report. You can read GitHub's story…
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in July already! That blows my mind - we're closer to 2022 than 2020 at this point. I don't wanna jinx it, but this year seems markedly better than last year, and I hope it stays that way. Anyway, friends, let's get on with the roundup!