This Week in Spring - November 14th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less! Some key features include: virtual threads initial CRaC support more...

This Week in Spring - June 27th, 2023

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about. First, yesterda...

A Bootiful Podcast: Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig, recorded from beautiful Barcelona, Spain during the fabulous Spring I/O event!...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative We concluded the last article with the thought that Spring Cloud Sleuth’s MANUAL context propagation strategy is both performant and provides correct...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative We concluded the last article with the thought that Spring Cloud Sleuth’s MANUAL context propagation strategy is both performant and provides correct...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative Spring Cloud Sleuth recently became Micrometer Tracing, part of the Micrometer project. Most of the tracing instrumentation is centered within Micrometer und...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 1 - The Basics

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 brought us a unified and consistent way to enable Observability in applications that use Micrometer. The evolution from...

This Week in Spring - February 21, 20223

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you? I almost forgot today was Tuesday! Here in the US, we had a three day weekend for President's day, and also I've been streaming for a few hours every day or almost every day on my little YouTube channel so the day...

This Week in Spring - February 7th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, as I write this and I'm so very glad to be talking to you. How're you doin'? Some housekeeping: I'll be doing more live streams over on my YT channel - join me and we'll talk shop. I'm going...

Spring at JavaOne 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Its Sunday the 16th of October as I write this and Im winging my way to sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, where Ill be attending and presenting at the first JavaOne show in years! It didnt exist as the JavaOne we know and love for years, even before the pandemic interrupted life as we kno...

Observability with Spring Boot 3

The Spring Observability Team has been working on adding observability support for Spring Applications for quite some time, and we are pleased to inform you that this feature will be generally available with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3! What is observability? In our understanding, it is...

An update on Java 17+ adoption

As a follow-up to my blog post from last years SpringOne, it is time for an update on our Java 17+ baseline efforts! We established the new baseline on our main branches, with a few milestones out already. The feedback has been very positive, not only in terms of framework improvements but also i...