Spring Tips: Apache RocketMQ

Engineering | Josh Long | February 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to look at Alibaba's Apache RocketMQ. We've talked some about Alibaba in Spring Tips before. Check out the earlier Spring Tips installment in which we explore some of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Running Apache RocketMQ

In order to use Apache RocketMQ, you'll need to follow the steps in the RocketMQ quickstart. This Spring Tips installment introduces Apache RocketMQ, originally a technology developed and used internally at Alibaba and proven in the forge of 11/11, the famous Chinese sales holiday, sort of like "Cyber Monday," or "Black Friday," in the US. Sort of like that, but waaaaaay bigger. In 2019, Alibaba (alone, with no other e-commerce engines involved), made almost $40 billion USD in 2…

This Week in Spring - February 25th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | February 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! This week I am in delicious Philadelphia enjoying the amazing food (scrapple! TastyKakes!) and hanging out with amazing customers using VMWare and Spring to great effect. It's been a busy week since we last talked: I released a new Spring Tips installment, wrote a bunch of blogs, recorded a new podcast, and published a new podcast installment. We've got a lot to get to today so let's get to it!

Netflix Built a Spring Application Generator to Boost Dev Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.

Engineering | Ben Wilcock | February 24, 2020 | ...

If you watch Taylor Wicksell of Netflix's SpringOne Platform keynote you can’t help but be blown away by the sheer productivity of their engineering team. Last year, over 300 Spring-based apps went into production – an incredible achievement.

Taylor Wicksell of Netflix's SpringOne Platform Keynote

What Can Your Enterprise Learn From Netflix?

At Netflix, Taylor and his Java Platform team own the Java developer experience (DevEx). Taylor’s team has one mission: to help Netflix's engineers stay productive – delivering great code at great velocity. It’s a mission that is clearly proving successful.

Netflix's Java Platform Team's Top Technical Priorities

Top of Taylor’s list of productivity secrets is Application Generators. Netflix found that developers adopt platforms far quicker when everything they need to get started is right there, at their fingertips. Application generators help developers to get started quickly by providing useful guide rails that reduce toil and ease their burden. Application generators also encourage common approaches to common problems – particularly useful if you have lots of teams creating microservices…

A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more

Engineering | Josh Long | February 21, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to friends - Mercy Ma (马昕曦), Andy Shi (施孜海), and Jim Fang (方剑) - from Alibaba. These engineers work on Spring Cloud Alibaba, some of the open source infrastructure coming out of Alibaba designed to support Spring applications running at Alibaba, and more.

Spring Tips: RSocket and Spring Security

Engineering | Josh Long | February 20, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this first installment of Spring Tips season 7, we look at how to lock down RSocket services with Spring Security.

By Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at using Spring Security and RSocket together. RSocket is a payload and platform agonostic wire protocol developed by engineers at Netflix and Facebook that supports the Reactive Streams concepts on the wire. The protocol is a stateful-connection centric protocol: a requester node connects and stays connected to another responder node. Once connected, either side can transmit information…

Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) and Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2

Engineering | Oleg Zhurakousky | February 19, 2020 | ...

We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2 (just released) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.4 and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.2.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

This release contains several fixes and enhancements primarily driven by user's feedback, so thank you. For more details please follow these links:

This Week in Spring - February 18th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | February 18, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to sunny Atlanta, Georgia, for the epic Devnexus show there. If you're there, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'm also busy recording new episodes of a Bootiful Podcast and new Spring Tips videos videos. We have some amazing guests on the show coming up and we have some really fascinating topics to introduce in our Spring Tips videos, too!

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | February 12, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends?

We've got a lot of good stuff this week, so let's get to it!

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