This Week in Spring - February 24th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome and oh-so-agentic week in Spring! We've got a ton to look into, and I've got even more to prepare for next week's DevNexus event in Atlanta, GA, so let's dive right into it! Be sure to say "hi" if you're going to be there, though! You've heard of Agent...

Spring Data Ahead of Time Repositories

In the past couple of years we have seen heavy investment throughout the Java ecosystem to reduce application startup times. The main focus gravitates around Ahead-of-Time optimizations. May it be condensing code into a GraalVM native executable, capturing already optimized bytecode with...

Hello, Java 22!

update I've since published a Spring Tips video on this very topic! If you'd prefer, you could watch that instead. Hi, Spring fans! Happy Java 22 release day, to those who celebrate! Did you get the bits already? Go, go, go! Java 22 is a significant improvement that I think is a worthy upgrade fo...

This Week in Spring - March 21st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's March 21st and today they announced Java 20! It's an exciting time to be a Java developer. Java 20, of course, is just another amazing installment before Java 21, which comes out in six short months, includin...

Kotlin DSLs in the world of Springdom

Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs. Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to...

Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available

Were very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring...

Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available

We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring...

Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available

We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring...

Learn more about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3 in these two great talks from Devoxx 2022

Hi, Spring fans! I was just at Devoxx in Belgium, where hundreds of experts from across the Java ecosystem converged for the first time since 2019 to deliver their biggest and best. I could do a proper trip report, but I really just came here to point you to two talks from two of my amazing...

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Its October 4th, 2022, and Im in Austin, TX, for the new version of show formerly known as the Kafka Summit, here to talk to folks about the amazing opportunities for Spring Boot and Apache Kafka. On the 12th, Ill be in...

This Week in Spring - July 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This weeks all sorts of weird for me. Its Tuesday! But here in the US we just celebrated the 4th of July, and I, like many Americans, took a long weekend. Took some time with the family to do a little road trip up north to...