I’m joined, I think, for the second time by my friend, the legendary architect and developer extraordinaire Russ Miles, who has given some of the most cerebral and exciting Spring keynotes and talks ever. And this time, he’s back to talk about — guess what — A.I. As usual, he’s got a different and very interesting angle on the whole thing in this short-but-sweet episode. Recorded at UberConf 2026 in Westminster, Colorado!
This Week in Spring - July 14th, 2026 In two short months, on this date in September, Java 27 will be here! Who's excited? I'm excited! I'm in delightful Denver, CO, for the amazing UberConf. I just delivered a workshop that was scheduled from 09:00 to 17:00, but it went into overtime, and we just concluded at 18:30. Long day (story of my life)! Such a nice way to spend the day, though. Surrounded by cool people. As usual, though, the Spring ecosystem waits for no one. Let's dive right into this amazing week in Spring! I did a video you might like, and I really hope you'll watch it, looking at…
Hi Spring fans! Spring Boot 4.1 is here and with it a ton of amazing features. I'm delighted to have had the opportunity to sit down with Moritz Halbritter, of Spring Boot and Spring Initializr fame, to talk about some of the amazing features.
This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2026 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover and I've got a plane to catch so let's go! What's that over on Spring Initializr? It's JobRunr, that's what! My favorite distributed job execution engine has (finally!) landed on my second favorite place on the web (after production!): start.spring.io. Welcome, JobRunr! I love Craig Walls' recent post on using more than one LLM with Spring AI Nice article on using Spring for Apache Kafka with Kafka Streams' dead-letter queues I really liked this talk from Moritz…
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Spring AI and Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze about the latest-and-greatest in AI, Kotlin, the framework, and more.
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, a weekly recap in which we review the latest and greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Spring. You probably already knew this. I don't know if I needed to mention it. But I like to. I've been doing this every week, nonstop, since January 2011. I've just wrapped up a tour of Asia - Singapore; New Delhi, India; Bombay, India; Hyderabad, India; Tokyo, Japan; and Nagoya, Japan. It's been a ton of fun, but now I'm on some much-needed vacation in Kyoto, Japan and Okinawa, Japan. I plan on enjoying some downtime, chilling…
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to my friend Francesco Ciulla about the art of developer advocacy and more. Francesco Ciulla is the Head of DevRel Engineering at zerops.io.
Hi Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the wide and wonderful world of Spring, as usual, and there's a good amount to get to, fresh off the recent Spring Boot 4.1 generation release train, so let's dive right into it! I wrote a blog post looking at Spring Batch, MongoDB, and Spring Boot 4.1. Spring AI lead Christian Tsolov wrote a nice post detailing the new tool calling API in Spring AI 2.0. In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to my friend DaShaun Carter about the latest in the new Spring Boot 4.1 releases. Another great Spring AI recipe from Craig Walls, this…
Spring Batch was introduced many years before MongoDB existed, and its design assumed the presence of a SQL database in which to store the state of Spring Batch jobs. But that was decades ago, and a common question for anyone new to Spring Batch was, "Why does this thing need to talk to a SQL database?" The answer, of course, was that Spring Batch keeps a meticulous record of every job, step, and execution in a JobRepository, and for years that repository spoke one dialect: SQL. If you were happily living in MongoDB-land, you still had to drag a Postgres or MySQL instance along just so Batch…
Hi Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege to sit down with my friend DaShaun Carter to talk about patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI.
