speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Micrometer metrics collection and publication facade. Micrometer is a new project from Pivotal that underpins the Actuator metrics endpoint in Spring Boot 2.0.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the last week I went from Germany (for JAXON) to Linz, Austria (for DevOne) and Vienna, Austria (for a meetup) and now I'm in Melbourne, Australia (after a 10 hour stopover in Bangkok, Thailand), for the VOXXED Melbourne event. As usual, if you're around I'd love to hear from you!

Without further ado, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Pivotal just turned 5! Happy birthday to us!
• Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley RC1. The new release is packed with all sorts of new stuff and represents one of hopefully the final releases before Spring Cloud Finchley before it's GA
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips I looked at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine
• the RabbitMQ 3.7.5-beta2 is now available.
• I really like this Chinese-language post on whether Spring Boot and Spring Cloud …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Finchley.RC1 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.1.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Set refresh rate for Git repos
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

• Support for Pact v3
• Integration with Pact Broker
• Option to upload and fetch stubs from a Git repository
• Bug Fixes
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Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another incredible installment of all that's fit to tweet, blog, record and print about Spring! It's been an insane week! Since our last installment I was in Paris, FR, for the epic Devoxx FR conference where I spoke at a meetup hosted by ZenikaIT, gave a workshop on Reactive Cloud Native Java and co-presented a talk on Reactive Spring with the one-and-only Juergen Hoeller. I jumped off stage and ran to the airport to board a flight leaving 150 minutes later headed back to the US!

Now, you may have heard that Pivotal, the company that leads and/or at least…

I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.5.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes a handful of issues. It was included in the recent Spring Boot 1.5.12 and 2.0.1 releases and is also a recommended upgrade for all other users of the plugin.

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.5.0 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights:

• UI Improvements

• Spring Boot & Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Support

• Nested splits for Composed Tasks

• Metrics Collector 2.0 M1

• Stream Application Starters Darwin M1 release train

• Support for deploying to multiple Kubernetes clusters

UI Improvements

We have continued to improve the UI/UX of the Dashboard. You will immediately notice an overall lighter weight design. The Tasks tab has been rewritten to…

On the heels of the recently announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.RELEASE, we are pleased to present another blog installment dedicated to Spring Cloud Stream’s native integration with the Apache Kafka Streams library. Let’s review the new improvements.

MessageChannel Binders

Spring Cloud Stream framework enables application developers to write event-driven applications that use the strong foundations of Spring Boot and Spring Integration. The underpinning of all these is the binder implementation, which is responsible for communication between the application and the message broker. These binders are MessageChannel…

With the latest Spring Data Lovelace Milestone 2 release, the MongoDB module is stacking up new features that are coming your way in the near future. As you might have followed in the news, MongoDB 4 is going to bring ACID transactions to the Document store. The latest MongoDB 3.6 server release already ships with the main building block for those, client sessions.

You can read all about isolation levels and causal consistency in the MongoDB reference. In short, sessions let you execute operations in an order that respects their causal relationships.

With Spring Data MongoDB, ClientSession is right at your fingertips for both the imperative and the reactive world, as we have incorporated those into the already existing MongoOperations and ReactiveMongoOperations. To provide you with the utmost control and still enough convenience, managing the ClientSession lifecycle is up you, while the template takes care of passing the session on to the driver correctly. The following example shows how to create a ClientSession…