Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's nearly April? Time sure flies when you're having fun! There's a lot of good stuff to get to this week, particularly around the nascent and just announced Spring Native project which people seem to love, so let's get to it!

• The amazing Andy Clement and I presented on Spring Native and GraalVM at JRush last week. Here's the recording
• A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time. Urushibara-san is a great technologist and an even better person.
• A neat Infoq article on Spring Native
• I like this German-language article on Spring Boot and container images called Container-Images: Abschied vom Dockerfile
• How to Debug Your Spring Native Applications
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to one of the most inspiring people in the technology world, a friend, and inspiration, Mr. Shigeru Urushibara (@urucrunch). Urushibara-san is a Java and Spring programmer and a general technology enthusiast. He's founder, president, and director of ULS Group Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Tokyo that is listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange and that employs hundreds of people. He's a friend of the Java community and we're honored to have him on the show.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Friends, director of Spring engineering and Spring Native cofounder Andy Clement and I will be doing a presentation with Bellsoft's Dmitry Chuyko called Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three, that introduces how to build GraalVM native images for Spring Boot applications with the new Spring Native project. Do not miss this webinar on March 25th at 11 am.

• Join Spring Cloud for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling for this webinar, GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes, on March 25, 2021, at 9:00 AM PTA.
• Join VMWare Tanzu CTO James Watters for this webinar, What Is Tanzu?, on March 24th at 17:00 CET.
• A nice Japanese language blog on the just-announced Spring Native project
• Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones
• An Azure Spring Cloud Update: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud
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Join Josh Long (@starbuxman), Nate Schutta, Mark Heckler (@mkheck), Cora Iberkleid (@ciberkleid), Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski), and Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) for this journey from code with Spring Boot to production on Kubernetes.

For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel

Hi, Spring fans! I hope you'll join the legendary Andy Clement (director of engineering on the Spring team, Spring/AspectJ/Spring Tool Suite/Eclipse contributor, and Spring Native cofounder) and me, well known ASCII art fan, for the upcoming JRUSH event.

At some point, after you've gotten the business logic just right and the ASCII art resplendent, you'll want to reduce data center spend and improve speed. And when this time comes, you're going to wish you had watched this presentation where Andy and Josh introduce the Spring Native project. You don't want regrets, do you, friend? Do the right thing. Be the change you want to see in the world: …

Hi, Spring fans! DataStax and Spring are the classic Netflixian definition of a cloud-native, and for good reason:

• they scales
• they're easy
• they're easily operationalized

In this video, join DataStax's Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin), Cedrick Lunven (@clunven), and the Spring team's Josh Long (@starbuxman) as they introduce Bootiful Cassandra and look at some of the technology that continues to power some of the largest websites on the planet.

Register for DataStax Astra now and try this code anytime. You don't need a credit card, and you get $25.00 USD credit every month, which gives you…

NOTE: this post was written by our friend Kylie Liang (@liangkylie) from the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team. Thanks, Kylie!

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale features. Both are critical to securely running production workloads at scale on the Azure Spring Cloud service.

Secure Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Network

With the Managed Virtual Network feature, you can provision the Azure Spring Cloud service in your virtual network which enables:

• Isolation of Azure Spring Cloud apps and service runtime from the internet on your corporate network.
• Interacting with systems in on-premises data centers or Azure services in other virtual networks.
• Controlling inbound and outbound network communications for Azure Spring Cloud.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to inspiration, legend and fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones (@techgirl1908). Also: Java 16, the R2DBC driver for Oracle database, Spring Native (GraalVM!), and Bootiful Cassandra!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's dive right in!

• Announcing Spring Native Beta!. This is by far the most important bit to come out of the last week! There is SO MUCH good stuff to ponder here. Spring Native is a set of hints that help GraalVM's native-image facility turn your dynamic Java code into a lightning fast, super lightweight, machine architecture-specific binary that you'll definitely want to invite to your next Docker container party. Tons of stuff just works out of the box. Native compilation is even supported on the Spring Initializr - just add Native to the selections! You can use @NativeHint…