Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished spending a wonderful afternoon with customers and now I'm pouring through all the wonderful new content for this week. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• The Java at Microsoft blog has a nice recap of what’s new in Azure Spring Cloud
• Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.0.M1 Released
• Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 Released
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1 are available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.8.RELEASE, 2.2.2.RELEASE and 2.3.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Cloud Greenwich Service Release 5 (SR5) is available.
• "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) about #DevOps, his experience of the industry, IT organizations and a MILLION TRILLION other things. I'd listen to this one first!

• The Phoenix Project
• The Unicorn Project

Hi, Spring fans! How're things, my friends? Can you believe we're already nearly at the end of January? I have been knee-deep in code and coffee for these last several days and I'm running late for a meeting so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Creating Docker images with Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 M1 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.3.1 Released
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Neo4j's mad scientist Michael Hunger on graphs, databases, and relationships
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 is now available
• Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 1 Available
• Spring Tools 4.5.1 released
• Want to run your own Azure Spring Cloud workshop? The team is constantly evolving their public workshop at https://github.com/microsoft/azure-spring-cloud-training
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Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 has just been released and it brings with it some interesting new features that can help you package up your Spring Boot application into Docker images. In this blog post we’ll take a look at the typical ways developers create Docker images, and show how they can be improved by using these new features.

Common Docker Techniques

Although it’s always been possible to convert the fat jars produced by Spring Boot into Docker images, it’s pretty easy to make less than optimal results. If you do a web search for "dockerize spring boot app", the chances are high you’ll find an…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j's mad scientist (and the nicest robot you've ever met!), and one of the most brilliant and generous people around, Michael Hunger (@mesirii), about all things graph, relationships and more.

Hi, Spring fans! It's 6 am Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, and I'm buckled in and ready to take off for Atlanta, Georgia (by way of Denver, Colorado...), where I'll be speaking at the Atlanta Java User Group tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone there. It's my first JUG appearance in the new year, too!

So, let's get to it!

• Spring Boot 2.2.4 released
• Spring Vault 2.2.1.RELEASE and 2.1.5.RELEASE available
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Cloud Services' Bella (Yuxin) Bai
• Spring Boot 2.2.3 released
• Spring Boot 2.1.12 released
• Spring Framework 5.2.3, 5.1.13, 5.0.16, and 4.3.26 releases
• Spring Data Neumann M1 released
• Spring Data Moore SR4 and Lovelace SR15 released
• This is an interesting post on two of my favorite pieces of cloud infrastructure: Running Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes using KubeCF
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Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Services teammate Bella (Yuxin) Bai.

Happy belated new year to the Spring community! As we start another amazing year of development and advancement within the Spring project ecosystem, I want to share with you an updated sample application that represents some of the progress we have made across the portfolio to support a Reactive programming model.

The BookStore Service Broker sample application has been updated to demonstrate the integration of several of the various Spring projects, including Spring Cloud Open Service Broker, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring HATEOAS, and of course Spring WebFlux and Spring Boot. All of…

Hi, Spring fans! What a week! I have ... nothing... happening this week! You know why? I had jury duty for which I was summonsed in mid-2019. I had to postpone it since I was on the road. I finally report to the court to serve as a juror for some trial unknown, this month, January 2020, and I was there... for maybe two hours. I was excused! You should definitely do your civic duty, of course. But, it was awesome to have it over and done within a few hours. I had blocked out the entire week, just in case. So, now I'm working on my Reactive Spring book, writing a ton of code to support…