Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to longtime Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma (@poutsma)

Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) for a guided tour of a ton of the features, patterns, and principles in Spring Cloud and Spring Boot that support you when building production-optimized, cloud native Java applications

This article is part of a blog series that explores the newly redesigned Spring Cloud Stream applications based on Java Functions. In this chapter, we explore how to use Spring Cloud Stream Applications and Spring Cloud Data Flow to implement a very common ETL use case: Ingesting files from a remote service. Specifically, we will look at how to ingest files from S3, SFTP, and FTP.

Here is what is included in the blog series to date:

• Introducing Function Based Streaming Applications

• Function Composition with Streaming Applications

• How to Build a Supplier and Source Application

• How to Build a Consumer and Sink Application

• Build and Run a Simple Stream Application

• Case Study: HTTP Request Function and Processor

• Case Study: File Source and MongoDB Sink

• Case Study: Relational Database Source and File Sink

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Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3

While the release 2.6.3 has the bug fixes, the first milestone of 2.7.0 has the following enhancements:

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3.2 Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.2 release.

Wavefront integration

Spring Cloud Data Flow dashboards for streams, tasks and SCDF server components…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome week in Spring! Can you believe we're staring down October, 2020 already? I can't. Time sure flies.... or something. There's a lot to get to so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud LoadBalancer replaces the Netflix Ribbon, provides a pluggable algorithm, reactive support, and extensible configuration.
• Interested in knowing about the 10 Itemprocessors that out of the box Spring Batch has? Watch the full session here
• Sentry CTO David Cramer on Automated Error Capture and Analysis
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3 Released
• Spring is a season of Programming Love with Josh Long – Programming Love
• Steven Rostedt on the Linux Kernel’s “Hello World”
• The Dark Secrets of Fast Compilation for Kotlin – Kotlin Blog | JetBrains
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks about the wide world of web development with CSS, Figma, AdobeXD and more, and then talks to Sentry CTO David Cramer (@zeeg) about easy error capture and analysis with Sentry and Spring.

• Want to see the worldwide flurry of activity as errors make their way to Sentry? Check this out

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun-filled and fantastic installment of This Week in Spring where we review the week that was in the Java ecosystem. It's been quite a week indeed. SOoo many new releases and so many interesting things going on in the larger Spring, Java, Azure, and VMware ecosystems, that we don't have a moment to waste so: onward!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work
• Ask the Java Architects Panel
• Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois
• Azure in the Enterprise: Azure Object Storage Service and Spring Boot
• Intel’s VMworld Sessions Highlight Modernized Infrastructure from Edge to Cloud
• Java Language Futures - Mid 2020 Edition
• Keeping Your Java Applications Secure - Cryptographic Improvements and Best Practices
• Keynote - The Future of Java Is Now
• Microsoft Azure and VMware makes the path to the cloud easier
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend and Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér (@jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, and reactive work over the decades, about the cooperation with the Spring team on the Reactive Streams, the Reactive Foundation, and more.

• Check out the upcoming Reactive Summit! Both Jonas and Josh will be speaking there :-)

Hi, Spring fans! I was on the Microsoft Azure YouTube show Azure in the Enterprise with Lyle Dodge where I did a quick demonstration introducing the Spring for Microsoft Azure support for the Microsoft Azure Object Storage Service. Check it out!