Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I'm in sweet San Francisco, soaking up the sun and enjoying the fun of summer. Sure, I've got a few meetings, and appearances, etc., but it is very nice to be home. By the by, I'll be speaking at the upcoming San Francisco Java User Group - come hang out and say hi!

Anyway, lots of good stuff (as usual), so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0 Released
• Do not miss this extra special episode of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring team legend Oliver Drotbohm
• Simplifying the Spring Cloud Release Train
• Check out this great demonstrationn of Spring Cloud Task / Spring Batch-job executions and the monitoring of it using Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2 with InfluxDB and Grafana in Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2
• Hey Milwaukee, come hear Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb talk about Spring Cloud Gateway
• Good news everyone! Spring Boot supports Java 13
• Happy Sys-Admin appreciation day!
• I love the possibilities of …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead, creator of Spring HATEOAS, vocal hypermedia advocate and musician Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm) on Spring Data, HATEOAS, Hypermedia, and more.

• Oliver on Twitter (@odrotbohm)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I concluded my time in Portland, OR, for OSCON on Sunday, went to Chicago for the epic Chicago, IL Cloud Conf yesterday; today I am in Denver, CO, for meetings; and then Wednesday I am off to Burlington, MA for the SpringOne Tour 2019 event. We've got some good stuff this week so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Azul CTO Gil Tene on Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more
• There's an interesting new feature on master for Spring Cloud Gateway giving improved details about your routes in the Actuator
• Check out how the Dutch government uses Cloud Foundry to enhance users experience
• It's finally here! Check out the new support for the Cloud Foundry PAS running on Kubernetes. Here's another post with details from our partners over at VMWare on how PAS on Kubernetes improves the developer experience
• A nice post on the Okta blog on how to …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week I'm joined by my old friend, Azul CTO, Gil Tene as we discuss Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more in this extra packed 90 minute-plus episode.

• Gil on Twitter
• Azul Systems
• Zing

HI Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Lima, Peru, for JConf Peru, and then today finished speaking at the SpringOne Tour Philadelphia event. Now, I'm off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON show. As usual, we've got tons to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Tools 4.3.1 released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Mr. REST / HATEOAS, Mike Amundsen, on APIs, HTTP, REST and more
• This is an interesting post on how Orange makes use of Cloud Foundry
• Check out this resolution for those using Spring Cloud Gateway and experiencing issues doing a retry POST
• Check out the RSocket YouTube channel
• Have you registered for SpringOne Platform 2019? Do it
• This is amazing - a new reactive Spring Data Neo4J implementation is coming!
• Check this out - there's now a Kubernetes-ready distribution of RabbitMQ. Now it's cloud-native!
• I love the new Microsoft Azure API development guidelines which encourage the use of Project Reactor …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to "Mr. REST" Mike Amundsen (@mamund) to talk about APIs, Microservices, HATEOAS, HTTP and much more!

• Mike on Twitter (@mamund)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it's off to Lima, Peru. It's figuring to be quite a week!

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

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.
• Explore a newly-generated project on start.spring.io
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M1 is available.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.M3 Released!
• I love seeing that DICKS sporting-goods is experiencing such great success with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• …

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the milestone release 2.2.0.M1.

Along with some enhancements and bug fixes, here are some of the highlights of the release:

Metrics for Tasks Metrics and monitoring continue to be one of the important themes for Spring Cloud Data Flow. Building upon the InfluxDB integration that we have for streams, in 2.2, we are adding support for Tasks, too. The core of the Micrometer integration landed in Spring Cloud Task's 2.2.0 release-line, which by the way is a requirement if you are going to try out the Task-metrics and the SCDF integration.

For convenience, we have a sample application that builds on the compatible upstream versions of Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and Spring Cloud Task. With this application launched in SCDF, you are now able to instrument metrics with InfluxDB as the backend, and likewise visualize the statistics…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy 4th to those of you who celebrate. In today's episode, I talk to the man, the myth, the legend, the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.

• Dr. Subramaniam on Twitter (@venkat_s)
• a tweet asking that whatever recording I do with Dr. Subramaniam for the Bootiful Podcast be longer than an hour (wish granted!)
• The image from today's episode comes from a joint-talk that the good Dr. Subramaniam and I did in Atlanta, GA for the epic Devnexus conference. I am using the photo from Matt Raible's tweet
• Dr. Subramaniam's new book, Programming Kotlin
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