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.

It's 3 AM. Do you know where your production KPI Metrics are? You can't improve that you can't measure, and metrics are an…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• What’s new in Spring Boot 2.4
• A Bootiful Podcast - Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky
• YMNNALFT: Easy RPC with RSocket
• YMNNALFT: Express Yourself with SpEL
• Check out the Sentry Spring Boot starter
• Developing Spring Boot applications with Kotlin on Google Cloud
• JEP draft: Primitive Objects (Preview)
• @__jpr has integrated Hotwire into a Spring Boot environment
• New Loom Early Access Build
• No matter what the usecase, Azure has your Java apps covered
• On the JetBrains Blog: Results of the First Kotlin Multiplatform Survey
• Spring Boot 2.2.13 available now
• Spring Boot 2.3.8 available now
• …

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.

Integrating two services separated by a common, potentially volatile, and overwhelmed network is one of the most challenging…

Speaker: Phil Webb (@phillip_webb)

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Intro

• 00:27 - Creating a Demo App

Upgrading

• 07:24 - Version Number Changes
• 08:29 - JUnit Vintage Engine
• 09:07 - Legacy Config Data Mode
• 10:48 - Logback Property Changes and Property Migrator

New Features

• 13:51 - Java 15 and Startup Logging
• 15:03 - Constructor Binding @ConfigurationProperties Updates
• 18:11 - ApplicationStartup Metrics (Flight Recorder and JSON)
• 24:49 - Changes to Application properties/yaml
• 30:46 - Using 'spring.config.import'
• 34:46 - Importing Files Without an Extension
• 35:28 - Origin Chains
• 38:34 - Config Tree Support (Kubernetes Volume Mounted Secrets)
• 40:51 - Supporting Custom Config Data Import Types
• 42:57 - Docker and Buildpack Updates
• 46:09 - Publishing to a Private Docker Registry
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky (@z_oleg).

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.

Do your users want a convenient, bite-sized way to customize the behavior of your application? Expression Languages are…

I almost wrote in 2020! There's been so much going on I almost forgot to take stock of the year. What a rush. We better get to the roundup before I somehow lose even more track of time. So, without further ado, this week's roundup.

• Spring Framework 5.3.3 is now available
• I posted another installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, this one looking at the fabulous WebClient
• Spring Data's Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Netty founder Trustin Lee
• In last week's installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, I looked at reactive dataflow with project Reactor
• A useful sheet full of information about GraalVM
• Oliver Drotbohm's collection of tiny helpers for building Spring applications
• This is very cool: Ruchi Saini wrote a pretty long introduction on how to build …

Whether you are building a web API, mobile front end or a good-old fashioned desktop application, identity and access management will always be foundational pieces that are front and center in writing software. Azure offers a great platform to democratize your application development journey, as it not only offers a cloud-base identity service, but also deep integration with the rest of the Azure ecosystem. Spring Security has made it easy to secure your Spring based applications with powerful abstractions and extensible interfaces. However as powerful as the Spring framework can be, it is not…

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.

Today we're going to look at an all-in-one, handy dandy HTTP client, the WebClient.

HTTP services are a common source of data…