This Week in Spring - May 26th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Coimbra, Portugal, where I just did my usual shtick on the latest and greatest in Spring Framework 7.x, Spring Boot 4.x, and Spring AI 2.x. It was a ton of fun, and I want to thank everybody who came out. Last week I w...

Deploy and Scale Spring Batch in the Cloud – with Adaptive Cost Control

May 21, 2024, at 9 AM PST You can now use Azure Spring Apps to effectively run Spring Batch applications with adaptive cost control. You only pay when batch jobs are running, and you can simply lift and shift your Spring Batch jobs with no code change. Spring Batch is a framework for processing...

This Week in Spring - July 18th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in crazy cool Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If you're around, I'll be doing a presentation this Thursday the 20th of July, and I'd love to see you there! Then, after a quick vacation, it's off to Tokyo, Japan, where I'll also b...

Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans

In March, we introduced the Consumption pricing plan for Azure Spring Apps allowing you to start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Standard Dedicated plan! The Standard Dedicated plan provides a fully managed, dedicated environment for...

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then...

This Week in Spring - March 28th, 202

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm reporting to you from Los Angeles, where my family and I have gone for my daughter's spring break. We're going to survey some prospective colleges and we're going to Disneyland. Needless to say, I'm doubly glad to have al...

Start from zero and scale to zero – Azure Spring Apps consumption plan

We are launching a new way to pay for Azure Spring Apps -- the consumption pricing plan. This plan is now in public preview so you can start creating and deploying apps today. This new plan is super-efficient because you can start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. You get more straightforward...

Do more with Azure Spring Apps – scale to zero and enhance productivity

In 2020, Spotify coined the term "Golden Path” to refer to a supported approach and set of components to build and deploy software. Having these paths simplifies the development process, lets developers focus on their applications instead of infrastructure and speeds time to production. Microsoft...

My SpringOne 2022

It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate and understand that the devil is in the details regarding software development. Writing happy-path business logic isnt the hard part! Its the failure cases, observability, resilience, and process. Its security and other so-called...

This Week in Spring - September 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Its a fantastic Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2022, and I couldnt be happier. Its also Labor Day weekend here in the US. It marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad. But, on the upside, its a four-day weekend for me! Im technically off today. So, youll...

Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less!

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you. Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to mak...

Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from our friend Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft As a company, we are committed to making Java developers as efficient and productive as possible. This commitment means empowering you to use any tool, framework, and application server on...

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now generally available

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud is now Azure Spring Apps We launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019 to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot...

The vulnerability of the Java framework’s LDAP module for securing Spring-based industrial applications allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the LDAP module of the Java framework for securing Spring-based industrial applications is related to authentication errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information...

CVE-2019-11276 Apps Manager sends tokens to Spring apps via HTTP

Pivotal Apps Manager, included in Pivotal Application Service versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.16, 2.4.x prior to 2.4.12, 2.5.x prior to 2.5.8, and 2.6.x prior to 2.6.3, makes a request to the /cloudapplication endpoint via Spring actuator, and subsequent requests via unsecured http. An adjacent...