Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I sit down with Michael Carducci - software architect, magician, and knowledge graph expert—for a high-energy conversation about the future of AI. Michael breaks down why semantic data and auditable, deterministic reasoning are becoming essential for building trustworthy AI systems that actually work in production. If you’re curious about what’s next beyond bigger models and more tokens, this one is packed with big ideas, sharp insights, and a few surprises along the way. #ai #magic #knowledge #graph

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you? What're you building these days? I'm sitting here enjoying a cup of coffee and a mooncake. I had a customer call at 6 am this morning. It was a ton of fun, but the entire time I was thinking about those delicious mooncakes. Mooncakes, you see, are a kind of cake commonly eaten by the Chinese diaspora worldwide for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I queued up at Golden Gate Bakery here in San Francisco for three hours yesterday in the overcast and slightly rainy weather for these much-beloved mooncakes. San Francisco is…

Hi, Spring fans! In this conversation, Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert joins us for a fascinating look at how developer tooling has evolved from Eclipse to VS Code and beyond. We dig into the architecture behind Spring Tools, language servers, MCP, and how the same ideas that once helped developers stay in flow are now helping AI coding agents understand Spring projects better. If you care about the future of Java, IDEs, and AI-assisted development, this one’s packed with insight.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this to you from sun-kissed San Francisco, CA, sipping some coffee and watching the bay from my breakfast nook. What a wonderful day! A wonderful day in which to learn about the latest and greatest in Spring, even! Let's dive right in! I really loved this presentation by Oracle's Ron Pressler on the principles of memory management in Java More Craig Walls Spring AI goodness! Here's a nice recipe on summarizing chat memory Over the last few weeks, I've done some content on securing JavaFX…

Hi, Spring fans! This week’s interview is a must-watch if you care about where Java is headed next. This week, I talk to Netflix's Paull Bakker! We dig into Netflix’s real-world playbook for scaling Java, cutting costs with newer JDKs, and replacing reactive complexity with virtual threads and structured concurrency. Plus, there’s a sneak peek at the exciting future of Java, from AI-powered tooling to the upcoming Valhalla era.

Bonjour a tout le monde! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! It's a fabulous and fun day here in Paris, France, as I wait to board the train to Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference! It's going to be amazing. We've got another incredible week's roundup to dive into, so let's do it! I feel like some of the best content over the past several months in this weekly roundup has been Craig Walls' Spring AI Recipes section. Fantastic stuff! This latest one looks at running an LLM in-JVM This is a nice article on using vertical slices in Spring Boot on Solodev.sk…

Hi, Spring fans! I chat with BellSoft’s Catherine Edelweiss about using buildpacks and hardened images to ship Spring Boot apps with stronger security, cleaner defaults, and far less Dockerfile pain. #BellSoft #Docker #Java #JRE #SpringBoot

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from lovely Oslo, Norway, for the joyous JavaZone conference. Next, I'm going to Amsterdam for the interesting IntelliJ IDEA conference, and then finally it's off to Kansas City for the kinetic KCDC show! It's a conference rush, and I'm 100% here for it. I'm also here for the amazing community, whose vibrant, endless feed of content sustains me and this very roundup. So, without further ado, let's dive right in. I thought this was a very nicely done chart. I don't know that I agree with all of the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I talk Spring Security’s Joe Grandja about Spring Authorization Server’s graduation into Spring Security 7, and the new security heavyweights DPoP and PAR.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. It’s a big week ahead: I’m about to head out on a packed tour through Europe—Wrocław for a friend’s wedding, Oslo for JavaZone, Paris for a Spring meetup (details coming soon), Amsterdam for IntelliJ IDEA conf—and then on to Kansas City for KCDC. Busy? Absolutely. Fun? Even more so. And since I’ll be spending plenty of time in the air, I’ve got plenty of reading to catch up on. Here are some of the standout resources from this week’s roundup. Spring AI Recipe: Better RAG Results with Hypothetical Document Embeddings…