Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, stuck in a monster of a traffic jam trying to make it to another meeting. I'm so elated to be here to connect with amazing people and organizations. I'm also excited that, this week, I'll be speaking at the Bangalore Java User Group. Please, come out and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cove so let's get to it!

• I loved recording last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast wherein I got to talk to Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on the Simplicity Continuum
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M1 Released!
• Collecting Custom Micrometer metrics has never been easier - Instana
• Deploying Spring Boot Applications - The Startup - Medium
• Smooth implementation of CQRS/ES with Spring Boot and Axon framework
• How To Keep the Layers of your Spring App Separate using Integration Tests - YouTube
• Spring Boot And Context Handling
• …

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week I had the pleasure of talking with Ryan Knight and with the two people with whom I am copresenting at SpringOne Platform 2019, James Ward and Matt Raible.

• James Ward on Twitter: @_JamesWard
• Matt Raible on Twitter: @mraible
• Ryan Knight on Twitter: @knight_cloud

Hi Spring fans! I'm in delightful Denver and Boulder, Colorado, talking to customers and working with my buddies Matt Raible and James Ward on our Spring One Platform 2019 talk. It's going to be amazing!

I'm oh-so-excited to be working on today's roundup, as usual, because there's a ton of good stuff to cover, so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M2 Released
• Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3)
• Securing Services with Spring Cloud Gateway
• In last week's episode of a A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Spring and Spring Boot teammate Brian Clozel about performance, RSocket, and so much more.
• Announcing Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RC2 Released!
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.5.RELEASE & 2.2.0.M3 Available!
• Spring Tools 4.3.2 released
• The amazing Toshiaki Making has a great post on doing …

We are pleased to announce the third Milestone of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3).

NOTE: Spring Cloud Stream 3.0.0.M1/M2 was primarily to establish compatibility with Spring Boot 2.2.x. and therefore went unannounced.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3) modules are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Quick highlights:

• Spring Boot 2.2.x
• Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2

Notable features and enhancements for this milestone:

Emphasis on functional programming model

While we're not (yet) deprecating @StreamListener and/or @EnableBinding, we are moving toward…

So far in this series, we've covered Getting Started and Hiding Services with Spring Cloud Gateway. However, when we set about hiding our services, we didn't secure them. In this article, we'll correct this.

To secure our services, we'll use the Token Relay pattern supported by OAuth 2.0 and the Javascript Object Signing & Encryption (JOSE) and JSON Web Tokens standards. This will give our users a means to identify themselves, authorize applications to view their profile and access the secured resources behind the gateway.

All the code for this demo is published online in GitHub in the secured-gateway folder. If you just want to run it without understanding how it was built, skip ahead to the section entitled "Running The Demo".

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Boot and Spring Framework engineer Brian Clozel (@bclozel) about all the new features - RSocket support, performance improvements and more - in Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2.

• Brian on Twitter: @bclozel
• Spring Boot on Twitter: @SpringBoot
• the place to get started with all things Spring: start.Spring.io

We are pleased to announce the second Milestone of the Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2.

NOTE: Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M1 was primarily to establish compatibility with Spring Boot 2.2.x. and therefore went unannounced.

Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.M2 modules are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Quick highlights:

• Spring Boot 2.2.x
• Enhanced deployer (requires a separate blog)

Notable features and enhancements:

Function arity (multiple inputs/outputs)

One of the biggest features introduced with this milestone is support for functions with multiple inputs and outputs…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a This Week in Spring! I've just finished one of the most amazing experiences of my life - O'Reilly's "Foo Camp," an unconference where invited guests can camp on the O'Reilly Media campus headquarters and talk to each other. I met, among a zillion other people, former California governor Jerry Brown, former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and so many more. Now I'm in terrific Texas talking to our wonderful customers in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Plano. I'm also speaking at the Dallas MUG tomorrow night, if you're around and want…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talk to DevOps luminary, cloud-computing visionary, and all-around-great-guy John Willis (@botchagalupe). This a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride of knowledge, so buckle up and enjoy!