This Week in Spring - January 26th, 2021

Engineering | Josh Long | January 26, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I type this I'm sitting on the amazing Tanzu Tuesday's stream as a (guest) cohost with Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) learning about tips and tricks for working with Spring Boot and Kubernetes from the Spring team's Oliver Hughes (@olliehughes82). If you missed it, then it - and all sorts of other content - is available for replays on our Tanzu Twitch.tv channel.

Now then, we've got a ton of good stuff to get to so let's gooo...

YMNNALFT: Websockets

Engineering | Josh Long | January 25, 2021 | ...

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.

The open web has long extended hope to those who wanted a commodity platform to build and deploy services and applications at…

Bootiful Application Monitoring with Azure Spring Cloud

Engineering | Josh Long | January 21, 2021 | ...

This is a guest post authored by our friend, Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh

Hi, Spring fans! We are excited to announce that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is now fully integrated into Azure Spring Cloud, powered by Application Insights.

Azure Spring Cloud is jointly built, operated, and supported by Microsoft and VMware. It is a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications that lets you focus on building the applications that run your business without the hassle of managing infrastructure.

APM in Azure Spring Cloud offers in-depth performance monitoring for your…

YMNNALFT: Dimensional Metrics Accumulation with Micrometer

Engineering | Josh Long | January 20, 2021 | ...

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…

This Week in Spring - January 19th, 2021

Engineering | Josh Long | January 19, 2021 | ...

YMNNALFT: Easy RPC with RSocket

Engineering | Josh Long | January 18, 2021 | ...

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…

What's new in Spring Boot 2.4

Engineering | Phil Webb | January 17, 2021 | ...

Speaker: Phil Webb (@phillip_webb)

Sorry for the small font! You might want to watch this at a computer in full screen.

Timecodes

Use the timecodes below if you want to jump to a specific part of the presentation:

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

YMNNALFT: Express Yourself with SpEL

Engineering | Josh Long | January 13, 2021 | ...

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…

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