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...

All together now: Spring Boot 3.2, GraalVM native images, Java 21, and virtual threads with Project Loom,

This has been a very long time in coming, but finally we can create GraalVM native images that use Spring Boot via Spring Boot 3.2 and Java 21's virtual threads Project Loom! Why does all this matter? Each of these individual things, Project Loom, and GraalVM native images, offer compelling runti...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: opensource, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes maestro Abel Salgado Romero

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Abel Salgado Romero @abelsromero about open source, Kubernetes, and building Kubernetes controllers with Spring Boot and GraalVM native images...

This Week in Spring - January 31st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm not going to spend too much time here in the preamble because a today's both my birthday and my late father's birthday and b I got the worst gift ever: COVID-19. Sigh. So, I'm going back to bed. Without further ado, let's...

This Week in Spring - November 29th, 2022 (Spring Boot 3 has arrived)

Hi, Spring fans! Its here! Its finally here, at long last! Spring Boot 3!! And of course with Spring Boot 3.0 comes a whole portfolio of integrated projects that have also been updated! Remember, a huge theme in this release is support for GraalVM native images, and thats now supported across the...

Spring Tips: the road to Spring Framework 6: the new Ahead-of-Time Compilation Engine and GraalVM

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!, bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time AOT compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and well dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the 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...