This is part 2 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
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This is part 1 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the promising, reactive, elastic and fantastic protocol and Reactor-powered project RSocket from Facebook.

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Years to you! Here's hoping that your new year is healthier and happier than the last. Did you notice that spiffy new numeral in the date? 2019? Isn't that 'perty?? We made it! (We're now a year away from 2020! I don't know why that year holds so much sway for me...)

Also, this is the eighth anniversary of This Week in Spring! I started this series in the first week of January 2011. We've come a long way since then! This is as good a time as any to remind you that I love this community and I love reading what you're up to. It's a pleasure to learn with you. As always, I'm grateful for any contributions in this humble roundup; just hit me up on Twitter. My Direct Messages are wide-open. Thank you for…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring Cloud integrations for some of Alibaba's open source infrastructure, namely Nacos and Sentinel, and then we look at the Spring Cloud Alibaba Alibaba Cloud integrations for the Alibaba public cloud.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! And welcome to another, very special installment of This Week in Spring where we look not only at the last week's news but also the highlights of the year behind us. 2018 was one of incredible turmult on the technology landscape, one that the Spring community has been able to deftly navigate. In this special year-end wrapup we'll do what we always do - look at the latest and greatest in the ecosystem, but we'll also revisit the things that I, your friendly neighborhood @starbuxman, feel most positively impacted the Spring developer in 2018.

First, of course, let me get the…

It is my pleasure to announce Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SSDG), 2.1.2.RELEASE (official project site).

In addition to several new features and improvements that follow, SSDG 2.1.2.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Framework 5.1.3.RELEASE.

• Spring Data for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire Lovelace-SR3.

• Spring Session 2.1.2.RELEASE.

These bits will be picked up in Spring Boot 2.1.2.RELEASE and are available in Maven Central now.

You can easily switch from Apache Geode to Pivotal GemFire simply by changing your application dependency from

org.springframework.session:spring…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M3. This 3.0 release will support Spring WebFlux and a reactive programing model, as well as additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.1.RELEASE (previously built against Spring Boot 2.0)
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following Spring Boot starter:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-open…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0. This release supports additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Support for asynchronous service instance binding and unbinding
• Support providing an updated dashboard_url when updating a service instance
• Resolves issues with deserializing the model objects that were converted to the builder pattern
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following…