Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July 29th, 2024! I can hardly believe it! We're less than a month away from SpringOne 2024! Have you registered for either in-person attendance or the free livestreams yet? As always, we've got a ton of stuff to cover so let's dive right into it!

• first, Ollama just announced support for tools, and that's now supported in Spring AI!
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to cloud infrastructure legend Mark Fynes about Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, continuous delivery, and so much more.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.4 Released
• Generating HTTP clients from a Spring Boot application
• Seems interesting.. will have to check it out
• Implementing the strategy design pattern in Spring Boot
• From Prompts to Reality: Exploring Multimodal AI with Spring AI
• how to integrate open source models with Ollama (and Spring AI)
• …

Earlier this week, Ollama introduced an exciting new feature: tool support for Large Language Models (LLMs).

Today, we're thrilled to announce that Spring AI (1.0.0-SNAPSHOT) has fully embraced this powerful feature, bringing Ollama's function calling capabilities to the Spring ecosystem.

Ollama's tool support allows models to make decisions about when to call external functions and how to use the returned data. This opens up a world of possibilities, from accessing real-time information to performing complex calculations. Spring AI takes this concept and integrates it seamlessly with the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Mark Fynes. Mark’s a field principal with Tanzu at Broadcom, building platforms with our Pivotal/VMWare/Broadcom customers for the past 10 years. Passionate technologist, working closely with developers, architects, IT-operations, security architecture and IT-leaders.

Hi, Spring fans! It's such an exciting time to be alive! I hope you're doing well. It's nearly the end of July, already! Time is flying and as always the community has not disappointed with their incredible content. Let's dive right into it!

• have you registered for SpringOne 2024 yet?
• I love this talk from Spring IO 2024 on Micrometer Mastery, by Tommy Ludwig and Jonatan Ivanov
• Spring Tools 4.24.0 released
• Spring Modulith 1.3 M1, 1.2.2, and 1.1.7 released
• Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1 available
• Spring Boot 3.3.2 available now
• On last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to digital accessibility architect Scott Davis
• Spring Boot 3.2.8 available now
• Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6 available now
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, we look at the use of proxies in the Spring ecosystem
• Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1 available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Java ecosystem legend Scott Davis

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the use of JDK and CGLIB-based proxies in Spring, and demystify their application

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the middle of July! I can't believe it! Things have been just rushing by!

• did you see this awesome talk on observability by Tommy Ludwig and Jonatan Ivanov from Spring IO 2024?
• What is a ReadWriteLock?
• Spring for GraphQL 1.2.8 and 1.3.2 is available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1
• Spring AMQP 3.2.0 M1
• Spring Data 2024.0.2 and 2023.1.8 released
• Spring HATEOAS 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 are available
• https://spring.io/blog/2024/07/11/spring-cloud-2023-0-3-aka-leyton-has-been-released
• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked with the legendary Cora Iberkleid
• Spring Framework 6.1.11 and Spring Framework 6.2.0 M5 are now available
• In last week's Spring Tips video, I looked at Data Oriented Programming…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In today’s episode, I talk to cloud native Cora Iberkleid about the awesome modular sensation that’s sweeping applications, Spring Modulith!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's been! We've got a lot to get into, so let's dive right in.

• I quite liked this talk, Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool @ Spring I/O 2024
• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JobRunr's Ronald Dehuysser
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Boot support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose
• Spring Framework and Spring Boot with Project
• Reducing Testcontainers Execution Time with JUnit 5 Callbacks
• interesting thread on Reddit
• I loved this tutorial on persistence with Spring from Baeldung
• Spring Boot…