YMNNALFT: HTTP Clients

Engineering | Josh Long | January 11, 2021 | ...

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Today we're going to look at an all-in-one, handy dandy HTTP client, the WebClient.

HTTP services are a common source of data…

Spring Data's Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues

Engineering | Mark Paluch | January 08, 2021 | ...

Spring Data has migrated its entire history of issues from Jira to GitHub. The goal of this blog post is to give you context and details about this migration.

Migration Details

Spring Data issues have been managed for over ten years in Jira. Today, every issue and every comment has been imported into GitHub. There is a lot to consider in such a move, so let's take a tour and go over some details.

Spring Data consists of 19 individual projects, each one of which is associated with its own issue tracker namespace. Four projects (Spring Data Build, BOM, Envers, and R2DBC) have been using GitHub…

YMNNALFT: Reactive Dataflow with Project Reactor

Engineering | Josh Long | January 05, 2021 | ...

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

And it's a good thing we're covering some of these complexity-reducing gems, too, you see, because the world is a confusing…

This Week in Spring, January 5th, 2020 - 10th Anniversary Edition

Engineering | Josh Long | January 05, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Happy new year! And welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Today is a significant installment because it marks a decade of This Week in Spring!

I started this roundup after a fun discussion with the legendarily nice guy and SpringSource co-founder Keith Donald in late 2010 over the holiday. Lo, the first week of January 2011, the first edition of this roundup went out the door on the old SpringSource.org blog.

It's been so much fun putting together this roundup, without fail, every Tuesday for the last decade. You wouldn't believe the lengths to which I went to get this out on Tuesday, well, my Tuesday, no matter where I was. I'd be on planes all the time and the original blog software on SpringSource.org didn't support scheduling posts, so I'd either publish it a little early or - if I was going to be on a plane for the entirety of the useful day - I'd have my then manager Adam Fitzgerald post it for me. He reviewed the content for the first few years of the blog, too…

YMNNALFT: Easy Docker Image Creation with the Spring Boot Maven Plugin and Buildpacks

Engineering | Josh Long | January 04, 2021 | ...

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (#YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Have you tried out Paketo? It's neat-o! It alleviates one of the biggest pains of cloudy software these days:Dockerfiles.

As an aside: the biggest pain point is, of course, YAML. YAML is why people leave IT! YAML: when you want the indentation-sensitive treachery of Python, with the nonexistent design-time validation of Python and none

This Year in Spring - 2020 Edition

Engineering | Josh Long | December 30, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans!

You know what I did? I goofed, people. I accidentally released This Week in Spring on this the last week of December, the last month of the year! And I shouldn't have. I should not have done that. Usually, you see, I turn the final installment of This Week in Spring for a given year into the aptly named This Year in Spring, a celebration of the big tentpole themes that have defined the year (well, from my perspective, anyway). Then I include the usual This Week in Spring roundup inline. I forgot to do that first part, so I am publishing this as a separate post. Hey, it's tradition

This Week in Spring - December 29th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | December 29, 2020 | ...

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

How are you? How're things? I spent this morning on a fun two-hour panel hosted by the Barcelona JUG (who run the JBCN conference, among other things) talking about all sorts of things including GraalVM native images, new features in the Java language, cloud-native applications, and so much more. Thanks for having me!

I am so happy about this week's roundup and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

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