This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's going to be! Do this first: we need your help! Please answer some questions in our State of Spring survey! Join me for a look at the latest-and-greatest, chronicling how I got started with Spring Boot in...

Function Calling in Java and Spring AI using the latest Mistral AI API

UPDATE: As of March 13, 2024, Mistral AI has integrated support for parallel function calling into their large model, a feature that was absent at the time of this blog's initial publication. Mistral AI, a leading developer of open-source large language models, unveiled the addition of Function...

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll....

This Week in Spring - February 27th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein we explore the latest-and-greatest in the wonderful world of Springdom. This week's going to be a very good one, so let's dive right into it! good news everyone! Spring Boot's been updated! 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3, and 3.1.9 a...

This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 20th of February, 2024? I'm doing alright on this rainy 20th of Feburary here in San Francisco, and I hope you are too! We've got a ton of things to get into this week so let's dive right into it! Have y...

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it! Spring Tools 4.21.1 is now available In the latest...

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs like the one behind ChatGPT and tools to support the RAG retrieval augmented generation pipeline. ai springboot artificialintelligence java graalvm cloud java21 postgresq...

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC 1 Billion Row Challenge...

This Week in Spring - January 9th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the second week of 2024, and I am already thinking about 2025! And, a bit more immediatelt than that: the next two weeks. I'll be at both VOXXED DAYS Ticino and VOXXED DAYS CERN, both in Switzerland. If you're about, com...

This Year in Spring - 2023

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas...

This Week in Spring - August 22, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here! We've got a ton of things to get into this week,...