Hi Spring fans! What a week it's been since we last spoke! I was in Zurich, Switzerland; then Paris, France; then Minsk, Belarus; and now I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the epic JBCN show. I've recorded a few episodes for the podcast (✅), gave a talk (✅) and now have a workshop to deliver on Wednesday (✅). Fun week by the beach! Don't worry about me, I'll pull through..

Spring en la primavera

....And I'm not going anywhere until Thursday when I'll fly home to San Francisco, USA to see our kid graduate middle school! I'm so proud of her. What a legend.

Anywho, lot's to cover this week, so let's get to it!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast I talked to Twitter's Chris Thalinger on Java, Graal, JVMs, JITs, and more
• Spring Tools 4.2.2 released
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's Spring Tips I introduced the new support for transaction management in Reactive APIs, check it out: Spring Tips: Reactive Transactions
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.1 GA Released
• Here's why companies like Google, Square, and Atlassian are sprinting to use Kotlin, the fastest-growing programming language according to GitHub - Businessinsider India on Mobile
• Want to learn more about stream processing? Check out this talk that Tim Berglund and I did at the Kafka Summit NYC 2019 on stream processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Kafka Streams: …

We are pleased to announce the 3.0.1 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker. This release is a maintenance release that includes the following updates:

• Improve getting started experience
• Update reference documentation

Include the following Spring Boot starter:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-open-service-broker</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Project Page | GitHub | Reference Doc | API Doc

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.2.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (all language servers) performance: additional improvements to language server startup time
• (Spring Boot) new: navigation for bean identifiers, bean classes, and property names for Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist rolled out for many more Spring XML config elements and attributes
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Detect @RequestMapping with path defined as constant instead of literal string (#281)
• (CF Manifest) new: added support for anchors and references
• (Eclipse) new: added project-related XSD schema resolution
• (Eclipse) fixed: high CPU and memory spikes when code minings and live hovers are active (#292…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of a Bootiful Podcast Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Twitter's Chris Thalinger (@christhalinger) about Graal VM; JITs; Compilers; Hawaii, USA; Sao Paolo, Brazil; and so much more.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the just-announced support for reactive transactions, now supported in both R2DBC and Spring Data MongoDB.

speaker: Josh Long twitter: @starbuxman

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 of Data Flow.

We have a brand new website with great new content, which is where you can find our getting started guide for use on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes and your Local Machine.

Here are the highlights:

New Dedicated Data Flow Website

The Data Flow team takes pride is openly communicating with the community in various forums including StackOverflow, Gitter, GitHub, Twitter, and at times in Email and Zoom calls even.

However, we realized that we could provide a much better experience to answer common questions and provide an easier on-ramp to using Data Flow if we focused on improving the online documentation. The reference guide was not the ideal format to achieve that goal, so we embarked on creating a new website - https://dataflow.spring.io…

Josh Long often says that “production is the best place on the Internet.” But where I used to work, developers needed to negotiate with operations, networks, and security before their code could go anywhere near this promised land.

Understandably, each of these disciplines seemed to have the same hidden agenda: change is bad. Experience had taught us that change was difficult and error-prone, so as a company we’d become risk-averse and cautious about our deployments. Releases were infrequent and large. There was plenty that could go wrong.

In spite of this, every six months or so developers would bundle up their code changes into a release, write the release notes, create a rollback plan, and wait around until midnight on a Saturday to deploy it. The deployment would be done manually, and not by developers, but by someone in operations. Developers were strictly passengers on this particular release-train (after all, we’re “the people who write all the bugs” as my friend Coté…

Hi Spring fans! It's been quite a crazy week! I was in Spring I/O last week in Barcelona, Spain and there was a deluge of interesting news to come out of the show! I loved the show - a sort of mini SpringOne - and am chomping at the bit to see what comes next. I'm now beginning a small tour starting in Zurich, Switzerland; then I'm off to the paradise-like Paris, France for the epic SpringOne Tour event there, then I'm off to Minsk, Belarus; then off to Barcelona, Spain for JBCN, and then - finally - home for the middle school graduation of my kid at the end of the month. So much exciting…

HI Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Nicolas Frankel (@nicolas_frankel) about integration testing, blogging, Kotlin, application security, living on the French/Swiss border, blogging consistently, and much more. It's an interview with one of my favorite voices in the community.

• Nicolas on Twitter (@nicolas_frankel)
• Nicolas' epic blog