Whether you’re a long time user of Spring Boot or just getting started with it, there are numerous resources out there that you can leverage. Knowing what’s available for your specific need is not always obvious and this blog post is aimed toward helping you to navigate through these resources.

Learning

Reference Documentation

As a software developer, you probably already know that reading any project’s documentation can help you save a lot of time and effort. The Spring Boot reference documentation is a comprehensive document containing everything you need to know about Spring Boot. It is available in multiple formats, multi-page HTML, single-page HTML, and PDF. You can choose the one that suits your needs. The documentation is versioned, with current pointing to the latest GA release. Be sure…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka (@OlehDokuka) about RSocket routing, the RSocket broker, Netty, HTTP3 and Quick, the RSocketClient, and so much more.

In this blog, we are taking a deeper look at writing a Spring Cloud Stream producer with Apache Kafka and how it handles native partitions in Kafka.

Spring Cloud Stream has a middleware agnostic concept of partitions. Whenever possible, Spring Cloud Stream leverages the native partitioning capabilities of the middleware if it has such capabilities as in the case of Apache Kafka. This blog looks at how a Spring Cloud Stream developer handles partitions when writing a producer application that publishes data to Kafka. In a subsequent article, we will look at how consumers handle partitions in a…

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, …

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…