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…

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…

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…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast and happy new year! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google's Daniel Zou .

Happy New Year!

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!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Alibaba's San-Hong Li on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba Scale
• Cloud Events and Spring - part 2
• Cosium/spring-data-jpa-entity-graph: Spring Data JPA extension allowing full dynamic usage of EntityGraph on repositories
• Hah! This is so interesting! Give Python applications Spring Boot Actuator endpoints
• Interesting! A third party library to allow people to easily follow CQS principles in Spring Boot.
• Interesting: Open API v3 Generator for Spring Boot applications
• Java Proxies: From Dog to TransactionalDog
• Java libraries I like – Eduards Sizovs
• …

Hi, Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Alibaba's San-Hong Li (@SanHong_Li) on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba-scale.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you!

Introduction

We begin with a quick summary of the previous post.

• Message is an adequate structure and abstraction with which to consume data that represents a Cloud Event in the context of Spring. We hope it was clear.
• In Spring, our commitment to isolate functional versus non-functional concerns lets us address non-functional aspects (such as send, receive, retry, connect, convert, and others) at the framework level, letting you (mostly) concentrate on actual business logic and letting you keep your code simple and pluggable to a variety of execution contexts (more on this later).

The…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the GA release of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.1. In general, this release was to fix bugs prior to release.

See this page for a list of Known Issues.

See the wiki for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

Spring Cloud Commons

NOTE: Bootstrap has been disabled by default. The new way of importing configuration is via the new spring.config.import functionality provided by Spring Boot 2.4. Please see the appropriate documentation for Config Client, Consul, Vault, and Zookeeper…

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

It's December 22nd, 2020, as I write this and I can not believe we're smack dab in the middle of the week and only have two shopping days until Christmas! I don't know if it's just that time of year and I'm flush with the normal amount of warm-n-fuzzies or if it's just that, after a year like 2020, I'm very keen on savoring this precious reprieve. Either way, couldn't be happier. I've got a cold! I'm sick and sneezing and my nose is running, but at least it's not COVID-19, and at least I've got my family and my job, and - all things considered - I feel very, very, veery…