In this wide-ranging interview, I finally sit down one-on-one and talk to Dr. Rod Johnson, the creator of Spring, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, engineer, father, Kotlin fan, AI researcher, and musician, about this, that, and everything in between, fresh off our recent SpringOne presentation on Spring AI with Spring AI founder Dr. Mark Pollack. This is an extra special, extra-long episode!

Hi, Spring fans! Or, I suppose: 안녕하세요, Spring 팬 여러분! I'm writing this from a café in scintillating Seoul, Korea. It's amazing. I've been talking to developers of all stripes who are using and building upon Spring to do all sorts of cool stuff.

And tomorrow, it's off to jolly Japan. I'll be speaking, among other places, at the Japanese Spring User Group in Tokyo. I'd love to see you there!

We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze has a nice sample application demonstrating Kotlin/WASM, leveraging Kotlin serialization on both JVM and in WASM, and using Spring Boot 3.3 and Kotlin 2.0.
• Speaking of Sébastien, I interviewed him, and we talked about all things Spring, AppCDS, GraalVM, Project Leyden, Kotlin, and more.
• I also interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson yesterday, and we talked about all things Spring, AI, venture capital, and more.
• There’s an interesting discussion on a ticket in Spring Framework around proxies with CGLIB when @Aspect is used.
• Micrometer 1.13.4 is out!…

Dive deep into the world of Spring Framework and Kotlin, GraalVM, Project Leyden, AppCDS, runtime efficiency, Kotlin, and more, with the one and only Sébastien Deleuze! From runtime efficiency to all things Kotlin, this episode is packed with expert insights and valuable information. Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation with a true Spring guru! Tune in now! #Java #SpringFramework #Kotlin #TechTalks #SpringBoot

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the Tanzu legend Chris Sterling, who works on making Spring an even more valuable part of a platform. (This episode was recorded live at the epic SpringOne 2024 event!)

How can Spring Boot developers improve the runtime efficiency of their applications with minimal constraints in order to enjoy those benefits on most applications? The answer is the CDS support introduced by Spring Boot 3.3 which allows you to start your Spring Boot applications faster and consume less memory. It is based on the foundation introduced by Spring Framework 6.1 that I presented a few months ago.

A key point is that this new CDS support provides a different value proposition compared to the GraalVM native image support: the improvements you get with CDS are less dramatic than with…

Hi, Spring fans, from the expo hall of SpringOne at VMware Explore 2024! There's a livestream of some of the key talks - register and watch for free now at SpringOne.io. Right now I'm hanging out at the expo hall manning a booth and doing demos to the hoardes of people streaming by, but I'll be talking a bit later, too, which, again, you can watch online at SpringOne.io.

As you can imagine, in the runup to SpringOne, there are a ton of exciting bits to look into, so let's!

• Spring AI 1.0.0 M2 is available now!
• Spring AI support for NVIDIA LLM API
• Good news everybody! Spring Shell 3.3.7, 3.3.2, and 3.4.0 M1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.3 M2 and 1.2.3 are available
• [Spring Boot CVE fixes](https://spring.io/blog/2024/08/23/spring-boot-releases-fix-for-cve-2024-38807
• check out this nice blog looking at structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4
• Spring Boot 3.4 M2 now available
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, i talked with Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg
• Spring Boot 3.3.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 3.2.9 is now available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Vaadin developer advocacy legend Marcus Hellberg about the lates-and-greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Spring.

Logging is a long established part of troubleshooting applications and one of the three pillars of observability, next to metrics and traces. No one likes flying blind in production, and when incidents happen, developers are happy to have log files. Logs are often written out in a human-readable format.

Structured logging is a technique where the log output is written in a well-defined, often machine-readable format. This format can be fed into log management systems and enables powerful search and analytics capabilities. One of the most commonly used formats for structured logging is JSON.

With Spring Boot 3.4, structured logging is supported out of the box. It supports the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and Logstash…