Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann (@PaaSDev), about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.9.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release updates to Postgres SQL driver 42.2.26 to address CVE-2022-31197. See the release notes for more information.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot of good stuff to get to so let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault
• a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring Security JWT
• I also loved Dan's video on Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
• Dispatching Queries in Axon Framework
• Guide to Find the Java .class Version
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Static Fields and Garbage Collection
• Blog: Announcing the Auto-refreshing Official Kubernetes CVE Feed
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.25: KMS V2 Improvements
• Blog: Kubernetes’s IPTables Chains Are Not API
• this is an interesting post looking at how to use JUnit with Spring Boot. The only thing I didn't quite understand is why the author declares Mockito explicitly. I'm pretty sure it's brought in transitively in spring-boot-starter-test…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang (@joatmon08) about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.4 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.4 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Config

• Replace JSCH with Apache MINA to resolve a number of SSH issues (#1901)

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added native JSON to gRPC filter (#2657)
• Support 'use-insecure-trust-manager' & 'trustedX509Certificates' for GRPC Filter (2699)
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Hi, Spring fans! How are you? It's a fantastic Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2022, and I couldn't be happier. It's also Labor Day weekend here in the US. It marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad. But, on the upside, it's a four-day weekend for me! I'm technically off today. So, you'll forgive me, but I won't spend too much time here. Let's dive right into this week's roundup!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Kris De Volder on Spring Tools, VS Code, and so much more
• Connect to Multiple Databases Using Spring Data Mongodb
• End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry
• I love this article by Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on refreshable secrets for Kubernetes Applications with Vault Agent
• Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers
• Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less!
• The Second Best Way to Fetch a Spring Data JPA DTO Projection – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
• The best way to fetch a Spring Data JPA DTO Projection - Vlad Mihalcea
• Speaking of JOOQ, did you know there's good reactive API support included? Check it out: …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dr. Kris De Volder, a longtime member of the Spring Tools team, about all the cool stuff he's worked on and is going to work on. And then we get knee deep into a discussion around building IDE integrations.

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you.

Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to make it easier to get started and accommodate smaller projects.

Announcing Price and Base Unit Reduction

Effective September 1st, we are reducing the base unit of Azure Spring Apps Standard and Enterprise to 6 vCPUs and 12 GB of Memory. And reducing the overage prices for vCPU and Memory.

New Monthly…

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from our friend Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft

As a company, we are committed to making Java developers as efficient and productive as possible. This commitment means empowering you to use any tool, framework, and application server on any operating system. Wherever you are with Java, Microsoft supports your workload with an abundance of choices and with a wide range of developer tools and services.

Code, Deploy, and Scale Java Your Way

Today, more and more Java developers are looking at how they can bring their existing Java…