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It was a lot of fun to talk to Greg Turnquist, one of the more industrious and variously applied members of the Spring family, about how he found his way to the Spring team and community, Python, his new book, Spring team legends like Keith Donald and Brian Dussault, and so much more.

• Twitter: @GregTurn
• Spring team profile page
• Spring guides

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at Gemfire… err.. Apache Geode, the fantastic distributed data grid you’ve probably never heard of, BUT YOU SHOULD, that integrates nicely with the Spring Data for Apache Geode project.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring.

We’ve got good stuff to get to but first, I want to invite you to be part of the discussion and consider submitting to the SpringOne Platform 2019 event. The call-for-papers opened today!

Now then, we’ve got a ton to get to this week so without further ado..

• WATCH: Hi Spring fans! In last week’s Spring Tips I looked at testing reactive code.
• LISTEN: For last week’s installment of The Bootiful Podcast I talked to Dror Weiss about Codota, which aims to bring much smarter code completion to your IDE
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.7.4 and Skipper 1.1.4 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Skipper 2.0 M2 Released
• Notice! The legacy question-and-answer forums will be shutdown February 28! The good news, of course, is that we’re still on StackOverflow and we’d love to engage with you there!
• This is a bit meta, but would you like to learn a little more about what it is I (try) to do, in my capacity as the first Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal? You might enjoy this episode of the Devrel Radio podcast
• I’d like to welcome back Sam Brannen to the Spring team. Sam was a member of the Spring team years ago and contributed to, among other things, the Spring Test support. He’s also now the lead committer of JUnit 5. It’s so nice to have him back! Welcome, Sam!
• I like this writeup on RxJava vs. Reactor. SPOILER: it depends!
• Join us at SpringOne Tour London! We’d love to see you there!
• I love this example by Robert Roeser demonstrating RSocket-based RPC, Proteus, and Project Reactor’s Kafka client.
• I think this is a pretty interesting discussion of AOT Compilation of Spring Boot from the Excelsior JET team blog

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Dror Weiss, CEO of Codota, a company that seeks to make smart code completion in your IDE even smarter.

Codota
Dror Weiss’ LinkedIn Page

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at how to test reactive applications and microservices with TDD style, inside-out testing from component to contract.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! First of all, Happy Lunar New Year, if you celebrate! (More than a billion people around the world do celebrate…)

Today I’m going to be giving a 4-hour presentation, Reactive Spring, for Safari members.

So, without further ado, let’s get to it!

• Spring Session for Apache Geode/Pivotal GemFire 2.0.8.RELEASE available!
• Last week in A Bootiful Podcast, I interviewed Spring messaging and integration maestro, and one of my oldest friends on the Spring team, Oleg Zhurakousky.
• Hi Spring fans! In last week’s installment of Spring Tips, The Reactor Context, I look at how you can perpetuate state across thread execution jumps.
• If you’re using older versions of Cloud Foundry then you might be using a vulnerable version of Java
• I really liked this response from Kenny Bastani on eventual consistency
• This is an interesting post on using Spring Boot with Vault on Kubernetes
• I love this - a look at using Neo4j and Spring Data Neo4j with the epic Mark Heckler and Jennifer Reif, among others
• I loved this look at Spring Data Redis and high-availability with Sentinel
• Check out this replay of the Securing Microservices with Spring and Pivotal Cloud Foundry webinar
• Hey check this out - it’s a third-party thing you can use to get lightweight administration of Spring Batch jobs, Spring Batch Lightmin
• This is interesting - it’s a program from pacphi called cf-butler that cleans stale apps and services on a Cloud Foundry foundation. It can be configured to report on and remove orphaned services and stopped app instances older than a configurable duration.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Oleg Zhurakousky, lead of the Spring Cloud Stream project, an application integration and messaging wonk, and a prolific contributor to Spring Integration. Oleg also has the dubious honor of being one of my oldest friends on the Spring team - poor guy!

Twitter: @z_oleg
Twitter: @SpringCloud

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we answer the question, “how do I propagate state across asynchronous, reactive execution pipelines?”

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Can you believe we’re already staring down February?? I’m still shaking off the vacation feels from the holiday break. I’m at the airport, SFO, a few minutes after midnite in PST, waiting to board for my flight to Houston, a connection en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the epic SpringOne Tour event - the first of a brand new year! I look forward to seeing y’all there!

Anyway, we’ve got tons to get to so let’s!

• Spring Tools 4.1.1 released - this new release is packed with tons of features, don’t miss it!
• LISTEN: in this latest installment of my podcast, A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Spring Boot legend Madhura Bhave. Don’t miss it!
• WATCH: In last week’s installment of Spring Tips I look at hedging client requests with the reactive WebClient and a service registry as supported by Spring Cloud’s DiscoveryClient abstraction.
• Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR7
• Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR16
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.RELEASE is now available
• New Tools from Pivotal, IBM Pave the Way for Java EE WebSphere Apps to Move to Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
• Securing Spring Boot Admin & Actuator Endpoints with Keycloak
• This looks pretty interesting: Fetch only the needed data from the database via Spring Data Projections (DTOs) and enrich the result via virtual properties
• The NewStack has a nice post on Spring Cloud GCP 1.1 - check it out!)
• Cloud Foundry foundation directory Abby Kearns predicts trends for 2019)
• JUnit 5.4 RC1 is now available. Please kick the tires and give us feedback before 5.4 GA! 5.4 RC1 also includes @RegisterExtension ordering, null and empty argument sources for @ParameterizedTest methods, @TempDir field injection)
• I love this series of posts introducing Kubernetes for Spring developers by the legendary Kubernetes community member Paul Czarkowski
• the Software Engineering Daily podcast has a great episode on RSocket, the reactive streaming service networking protocol, with Ryland Degnan. Spring Framework 5.2 is intended to integrate RSocket, as well.
• Here’s an interesting podcast episode from The New Stack on people using Cloud Foundry at scale - check it out.