This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024

This Week in Spring - December 17th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! It's the 17th of December, 2024! And you know what means? The end of the year is nearly upon us! I can't believe it. It's been a very long year indeed, but I'm happy to get on board a...

CDS with Spring Framework 6.1

As a follow-up to the Runtime efficiency with Spring blog post, I am happy to share that our exploration of Project Leyden optimizations has led to some interesting discoveries regarding the JDK's little-used CDS "Class Data Sharing" feature and has materialized into a new feature that we have be...

Using Your Own Embeddings in Spring AI 2.1

VectorStore.add takes text documents, generates embeddings with the store's configured model, and saves both. Spring AI 2.1 adds upsert for applications that already have embeddings or generate them from images, video, or audio. It accepts documents paired with application-supplied vectors, witho...

Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E27 - Hugging Face for Java Developers with Pratik Patel

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Java Champion Pratik Patel to talk about Hugging Face for Java developers. Hugging Face hosts over a million open models, but most Java developers have never used one...

A Bootiful Podcast: legendary Java developer Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with one of the most influential engineers in modern Java history - Kohsuke Kawaguchi - for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts tech retrospective, career reflection, and future-gazing. It all starts with a chance reunion at a Java...

Repository Vector Search Methods

The emergence of Large Language Models LLM has propelled Generative AI and surfaced one of its key components to a broad audience: Embeddings. Embeddings are a vector representation of data in a high-dimensional space capturing their semantic meaning. Vector representations allow for more efficie...

A Bootiful Podcast: BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis

Hi, Spring and JDK fans! In this week's episode I talk to BellSoft developer advocate Catherine Edelveis java springboot jre jdk graalvm CRaC...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cristian Schuszter on CERN

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!. Don't forget to help us out with the State of Spring Survey...

This Week in Spring - January 17th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I went to Helsinki, Finland, last week, and this week I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at the Atlanta Java User Group. And, of course, next week, I'll be in New York to join a viewing party for the airing of SpringOne...

Releasing Spring for Modern Challenges

Releasing Spring For Modern Challenges TL;DR: The Spring release train has been updated from a two week long train to a single day, the Thursday after the third Monday of the month. The next regular patch train will be on October 22nd. A milestone only train will occur on September 24th. Back in...

A Bootiful Podcast: Baruch Sadogursky on Gradle, Java, developer productivity, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Gradle Developer Productivity Engineering guru formerly of JFrog and hero to the JVM-language community, Baruch Sadogursky, recorded live from Dr. Venkat Subramaniam's amazing conference, Dev2Next 2024!...

This Week in Spring - September 24th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in delightful Dallas, TX, at the amazing JConf.dev show. Then I'm off to Germany, and then back home to do some laundry before heading out to Denver, CO, for the amazing Dev2Next show, before then heading out to Belgium f...

This Week in Spring - October 24th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal, ahead of the Porto Tech Hub event in Porto, and my tour bus is about to leave! So, let's dive right into it! Spring Authorization Server 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4 available now Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1 available now Spring...

A Bootiful Podcast: engineer, CTO, teacher, and pilot Ken Sipe

Hi, Spring fans, JVM enjoyers, and cloud natives! Have I got a treat for you today! We're going to be talking to my longtime pal Ken Sipe. groovy java kotlin go rust spring jvm...

Spring AI 2.1 Message Parts: Reasoning That Survives the Round Trip

Spring AI: Message Parts Doc | Upgrade Notes | OpenAI Responses Doc | Session Doc Reasoning models do more than think before they answer. They hand part of that thinking back to you and expect to get it back on the next request. Claude signs its thinking blocks. Gemini attaches thought signatures...

This Week in Spring - October 27th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring , which I write from the paradise-like environs Barcelona, Spain, where I was lucky enough to be a part of the amazing Vaadin Create event today and tomorrow. It's been an amazing few days, but those few days are just a small...

This Week in Spring - November 3rd, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday, and you know what that means? I'm thinking about production. Now, to be fair, I'm always thinking about production. But recently, I've been spending the weekend just overjoyed at how simple it was to get Cloud...