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.

• JOOQ 3.15.0 Release is out, and includes support for R2DBC (and much more)
• Neat! The JRE will be UTF-8 by default instead of dangerously assuming the host operating system's default: openjdk/jdk
• A Bootiful Podcast: Matt Raible Last week, I talked to Matt Raible, and you can too! I love that guy. So happy he was able to join the show again.
• Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Square
• This is neat: you can run TestNG tests with JUnit 5 now
• Piotr Mińkowski on Twitter: JPAstreamer is a library for expressing JPA/Hibernate queries as Java streams. It can be also integrated with Spring.
• Apress' R2DBC Revealed…

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.

Guest Author: Andi Marek, GraphQL Java founder

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!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Benjamin Wilms, founder of the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot and Steadybit, a company to help you build more robust software
• BlockHound: how it works
• Getting Started with Apache Camel and Spring Boot
• GraalVM on Twitter
• Hello, Spring GraphQL
• Introducing Spring GraphQL
• Maciej Walkowiak on Twitter
• Spring Tips: Spring Retrosocket
• Use New Relic to effortlessly monitor applications and dependencies in Azure Spring Cloud
• Detect, Diagnose and Resolve Issues Faster in Spring Boot applications using @NewRelic across your Azure Spring Cloud instances.
• …

Today, we are excited to announce the integration of New Relic One performance monitoring in Azure Spring Cloud.

Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using tools that their developers are familiar with and have been using for years, and they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile applications which are…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I am so happy to talk to Benjamin Wilms, who founded the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot, and recently co-founded - along with Spring Boot Admin cofounder Johannes Edemeir - an exciting company called Steadybit whose SaaS tool aims to make your systems and services more robust.

• @MrBWilms
• @steadybithq

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at Spring Retrosocket, an EXPERIMENTAL project designed to provide an OpenFeign- or Retrofit-like experience for RSocket clients.