Kicking off 2016, here are my personal recommendations for European developer conferences with particularly strong Spring content in the first half of the year:

• Topconf Linz: Feb 1-3, featuring various Spring-related talks in the Cloud & Microservice Architectures track and a dedicated Spring Boot workshop ahead of the show. An English-language conference in my home-city which happens to be a tech hotspot in Austria...
• JAX Germany: Apr 19-21, with a well-established dedicated Spring track and several Spring-related talks across other conference tracks. Note: JAX is primarily a German-language conference, so the Spring talks there will be delivered in German as well.
• Spring I/O Barcelona: May 19-20, our new annual European Spring conference in its second iteration, at a perfect time for visiting the city of Barcelona! This will…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring and welcome back from what I hope was a restive, fun new year!

This week, we mark the fifth anniversary of This Week in Spring which Adam Fitzgerald and I started (based on some discussion with Keith Donald in January 2011) fresh from the 2010 holidays.

Since then I've done my level-headed best to publish it every week (no exceptions! no missed weeks!) before midnight in Hawaii on Tuesday, every week, no matter what timezone I find myself in for that week! The world's a big place, so from the perspective of someone sitting in, say, New York City, it may seem sometimes like this blog goes up midday Monday (00:00AM in various Asian countries) or early morning Wednesday (23:59 in Hawaii) - that's a lot of variability! But I assure, you it's always…

Welcome to my first blog post as a Spring Cloud team member :)

It's been a month since I joined and it's worth to share some of the interesting things that took place during that time.

If you've been reading any of my posts at my Too Much Coding blog then you know that I'm crazy about two things - testing and microservices. Since all that I do at the moment is microservice related today's post will be about testing.

The Spring Cloud projects

When I joined Spring Cloud team I did a quick scan of the Github and it turned out that we have quite a few projects to govern including:

• Spring Cloud Netflix (including Eureka Discovery Service and Registry, Hystrix, Feign and RIbbon support)
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper
• Spring Cloud Consul
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Core Spring Speakers: Adam Koblentz and Josh Long Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/springboot-jrebel-cf Abstract: Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant! Spring Boot gives you a huge leg up over normal starter projects, now let's give you another boost by adding JRebel. With JRebel, the average Java developer saves over 1 work-month per year by…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Track: Big Data Speakers: Sarah Aerni, Srivatsan Ramanujam, Jarrod Vawdrey Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/data-driven-action-a-primer-on-data-science Abstract: In all industries, as software is eating the world, data is feeding software. However, to truly get value out of the data being generated, it must be analyzed and made actionable. Transformation in many industries actually means precisely this, data-driven action. From creating new television shows, to smart devices that help make your life easy, save precious limited resources, or…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Track: Data / Integration Speaker: Christoph Strobl Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/boot-your-search-with-spring Abstract: Search has become a major part in our applications. We want to find, quick and easy! This session focuses on integrating search solutions like Solr, Elasticsearch as well as MongoDBs full text search into your application. We’ll have a look on Spring Data’s abstraction for those and do some hands on auto configuration using Spring Boot (100% XML free setup guaranteed).

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Speakers: Simon Baslé, Laurent Doguin Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/practical-rxjava Web / JavaScript Track RxJava is an awesome library for async data streams. It is both expressive and powerful but the learning curve can be quite steep at first. So we want to quickstart developers into the world of Reactive eXtensions with more context than just listing operators! Adapted from a hands-on workshop, this talk will describe how one can migrate code into a fully async and RxJava-based application, built upon Spring Boot and Java 8. What kind…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Speaker: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam Slides: No slides, all demo The new facilities in Java 8 is about the change the way we write code. Our code will become more expressive and concise. But, exactly how?

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015 Speakers: Dr. David Syer, Dr. Mark Pollack Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/message-driven-microservices-in-the-cloud

Do you need to build cloud-native microservices for distributed stream processing and data integration but don't know where to start? All you need is a single annotation in your code and a single dependency in your POM. The new Spring Cloud Stream project combines the power of Spring Boot, Spring Integration, and Spring Cloud to make that a reality.

In a nutshell, Spring Cloud Stream provides support for auto-configuration of…