A Bootiful Podcast: Simon Ritter, Java Champion and deputy CTO at Azul

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Azul Deputy CTO and Javas own mad scientist and luminary Simon Ritter @speakjava...

This Week in Spring - April 22nd, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring , which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot. I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine Want to run an LLM...

This Week in Spring - June 25th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Amsterdam, having visited with customers and spoken at a local Java User Group. Now I'm off to lovely London, UK. Last week I was in Krakow, Poland, for the amazing Devoxx PL event, and in Par...

This Week in Spring - May 14th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's highlights in the Spring ecosystem emphasize the ongoing advancements and applications of Spring AI. The discussions range from exploring the impressive VectorStore abstraction and enhanced structured output suppo...

This Week in Spring - March 19th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! And happy Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! I just put out a huge blog detailing many of the exciting new features in Java 22. Check it out! As usual, we've got a packed roundup to get through this week so let's dive right into it! the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-...

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: Java legend Simon Martinelli on Vaadin, JavaOOQ, and so more

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Java legend Simon Martinelli about Vaadin, Spring, JavaOOQ, and more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain at the amazing Spring I/O show!...

This Week in Spring - July 11th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in yummy, sunny Jakarta, Indonesia at the moment, preparing for a week of meetings and the SpringOne Tour Indonesia event later this week. I'll also be speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 20th, 2023 . If you're in...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mark Thomas, Apache Tomcat contributor extraordinaire

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to longtime Apache Tomcat contributor extraordinaire Mark Thomas I wrote a free white paper on using Spring Boot 3 AOT and GraalVM. Learn the secrets to working with Spring Boot 3 and Graal...

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! It's early Tuesday morning for me. I'm preparing to head to Chicago, Illinois to meet some customers and have myself a grand ol' time in the windy city. I hope you're doing well, I certainly am. A Bootiful Podcast: opensource, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes maestro Abel Salgado...

This Week in Spring - February 7th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, as I write this and I'm so very glad to be talking to you. How're you doin'? Some housekeeping: I'll be doing more live streams over on my YT channel - join me and we'll talk shop. I'm going...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mario Fusco, the Drools rules engine project lead and fellow Java Champion

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Drools lead Mario Fusco @mariofusco about the rules engine Drools and its integrations with Spring, Olivetti computers, and so much more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir Selvasingh on Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, application security, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxma talks to his friend, Microsofts Asir Selvasingh @asirselvasingh, about Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, Spring, application security, and more. Want to learn more? Join us at SpringOne 6-8 December 2022! Want to meet amazing people...

Preparing for Spring Boot 3.0

Spring Boot 2.0 was the first release in the 2.x line and was published on Feburary 28th 2018. Weve just released Spring Boot 2.7 which means that, so far, weve been maintaining the 2.x line for just over 4 years. In total weve published 95 distinct releases over that timeframe! The entire Spring...

This Week in Spring - May 24th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Im in Spain for business and not just a little pleasure. Yesterday, my partner, her mother, and I went to Formentera, Spain, a little island off of Ibiza, Spain. It was amazing. Were now in Ibiza, Spain, which is a little island not far from Barcelona, Spain, on the mainland of...

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Gateway for Spring MVC

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we revisit Spring Cloud Gateway, this time to look at the fantastic new support for Spring MVC, made all the more amazing by Java 21's virtual threads...

Spring Tips: GRPC

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at how to create GRPC-based services with Spring Boot...

This Week in Spring - April 2nd, 2024

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention...

This Week in Spring - March 26th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language SpEL is coming to Spring Framework 6.2! This is interesting, and a nice application of AI do I even need to spell out "artificia...

This Week in Spring - January 2nd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Happy New Year! As we step into 2024, full of hope and enthusiasm, welcome to the first installment of This Week in Spring. It's a time for new beginnings and resolutions, and what better way to start than by exploring the ever-evolving world of Spring? I hope your new year...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java community legend Sharat Chander

Hi, Spring fans! Java 21 is out and in order to celebrate, I talk to Java community legend Sharat Chander...

This Week in Spring - August 15th, 2023

SpringOne, the first in-person SpringOne since the pandemic! - is next week!! I'm so excited I could spit. And I did spit. And then, I asked ChatGPT for some help writing a poem, and it did not disappoint! T'was a week before SpringOne, in Las Vegas so grand, Where devs from all corners would soo...

Improved Testcontainers Support in Spring Boot 3.1

There's been support for Testcontainers in Spring Boot for some time now, and Spring Boot 3.1 improves it further. But first, let's take a look at what Testcontainers is and how it's usually used. Testcontainers is an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of...

Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth

This post is a part of a series: 1. The Basics 2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative Spring Cloud Sleuth recently became Micrometer Tracing, part of the Micrometer project. Most of the tracing instrumentation is centered within Micrometer und...

Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function

What is the Spring Cloud Function? Spring Cloud Function is a SpringBoot-based framework allowing users to concentrate on their business logic by implementing them as Java Functions i.e., Supplier, Function, Consumer. In turn the framework provides necessary abstraction to enable execution of the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Avalara's Kumaresan Muthaliar on GraphQL in the heavily regulated, data intensive domain of tax

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Kumaresan Muthaliar, senior technical lead at Avalara, about GraphQL in the heavily regulated, data intensive domain of tax...

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 Im in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at the Atlanta Java User Group. And, of course, next week, Ill be in New York to join a viewing party for the airing of SpringOne...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Brian Benz on the state of Java, Microsoft, Azure, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Microsofts Brian Benz @bbenz...

This Week in Spring - December 13th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I truly, absolutely, can not believe that were nearly done with the year already! Have you made your new years resolutions? Submitted your expense reports? Its that time of the year when Im going to start focusing on staying...

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...

Bootiful Podcast: Spring Mad Scientist Andy Clement on SpringOne 2022, AOT, Azure Spring Apps, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring mad scientist Andy Clement @andyclement about the new native support in Spring Boot 3, SpringOne 2022, and Azure Spring Apps, among other things...

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...

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 - June 28th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Im writing this from the Big Apple, New York City! Im here for the SpringOne Tour 2022 NYC event. This is my first time back in New York City since before the pandemic and it has been so much fun. Ive been catching up with...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes legend and friend Cora Iberkleid on Tanzu, Cartographer, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Kubernetes legend and fellow Tanzu Developer Advocate Cora Iberkleid @ciberkleid about Kubernetes and Cartographer supply chains...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Spring Katas legend Chandra Guntur

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion and Java ecosystem luminary Chandra Guntur @cguntur about Java, Spring, and the Spring Katas, among other things...

This Week in Spring - April 26th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was hoping to be in glorious Chicago, Illinois for the first in-person SpringOne Tour installment since the pandemic. But, alas, I couldnt go because - out of an abundance of caution, and since I was exposed to...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cloud guru Tiffany Jernigan

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talk about his first in-person conference since the pandemic descended upon us -the fabulous Devnexus 2022 show - and talks to colleague, teacher, friend, and Kubernetes legend Tiffany Jernigan @tiffanyfayj...

This Week in Spring - April 12th, 2022 (Devnexus 2022 Edition!!)

This Week in Spring - Devnexus Edition Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - Im at my first in-person event since the virus: Devnexus! WOOHOOO!! Well, technically Im still in San Francisco as I write this, but Ill be in Atlanta, GA tomorrow for… Devnexus! I hope...

This Week in Spring - March 29th, 2022

Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. Its our daughters Spring break and so were enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this...

An update on Java 17+ adoption

As a follow-up to my blog post from last years SpringOne, it is time for an update on our Java 17+ baseline efforts! We established the new baseline on our main branches, with a few milestones out already. The feedback has been very positive, not only in terms of framework improvements but also i...

Dynamic Tool Updates in Spring AI's Model Context Protocol

The Model Context Protocol MCP is a powerful feature in Spring AI that enables AI models to access external tools and resources through a standardized interface. One interesting capabilities of MCP is its ability to dynamically update available tools at runtime. This blog post explores how Spring...

What's new in Spring Modulith 1.3?

After half a year of development, Spring Modulith 1.3 GA has been released. It is packed with new features, improvements, and – best of all – community contributions. Let me walk you through some of the most interesting ones. Baseline Upgrades As usual, a new minor version of Spring Modulith...

Spring AI with NVIDIA LLM API

Spring AI now supports NVIDIA's Large Language Model API, offering integration with a wide range of models. By leveraging NVIDIA's OpenAI-compatible API, Spring AI allows developers to use NVIDIA's LLMs through the familiar Spring AI API. We'll explore how to configure and use the Spring AI OpenA...

A Bootiful Podcast: Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi on "Beginning Spring 6"

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by Java luminaries and Apress' Beginning Spring 6 authors Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi...

Spring Tips: Spring Data JDBC

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at the fantastic Spring Data JDBC project, which is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to leverage JDBC in a Spring Boot application...

A Bootiful Podcast: Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Have you tried out Spring Boot 3.2? It comes out NEXT week on the 23rd! Get the bits and try them out now! This week I am joined by Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine...

This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2023

Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate! I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs! My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it. A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls Spring...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Data legend Greg Turnquist on optimizations and queries and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to Spring Data legend Greg Turnquist @gregturn about the incredible next-level optimizations and query enhancements, the work in general, and so much more. Recorded live at SpringOne 2023 in Las Vegas!...