A Bootiful Podcast: big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann @PaaSDev, about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!...

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...

Spring Authorization Server Is Going 1.0

We are excited to announce that weve started preparing for Spring Authorization Server 1.0 with plans to release the GA version in November 2022. It has been just over two years since we initially announced this new project, and we have come a long way since its initial development. The project h...

This Week in Spring - July 19th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week Im trying to wind down some threads and take some vacation with my family. Its going to be an amazing time, indeed! But that doesnt stop the deluge of novelties and news in the wide world of Springdom, so weve got a...

Spring Shell 2.1.0-RC1 is now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, Im happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from . Please see the release notes for more details. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help?...

Today is the last day to submit to the SpringOne 2022 Call For Papers!

Hi, Spring fans! This year, SpringOne is back in person, and being held in my hometown of San Francisco, California, December 6th-8th. Have you registered? and today June 28th, 2022 is the last day to submit to the Call For Papers! If you have a good idea or story you want to share, submit today!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring I/O founder, Spring trainer and community legend Sergi Almar

Hi, Spring fans! At long last, against all odds, Josh Long @starbuxman finally gets to talk to Spring I/O founder and more-than-a-decade-long friend Sergi Almar @sergialmar about an edition of Spring I/O after 2019!...

Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integration via Converse API

The Amazon Bedrock Nova models represent a new generation of foundation models supporting a broad range of use cases, from text and image understanding to video-to-text analysis. With the Spring AI Bedrock Converse API integration, developers can seamlessly connect to these advanced Nova models a...

AI Meets Spring Petclinic: Implementing an AI Assistant with Spring AI (Part I)

Introduction In this two-parts blog post, I will discuss the modifications I made to Spring Petclinic to incorporate an AI assistant that allows users to interact with the application using natural language. Introduction to Spring Petclinic Spring Petclinic serves as the primary reference...

Structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4

Logging is a long established part of troubleshooting applications and one of the three pillars of observability, next to metrics and traces. No one likes flying blind in production, and when incidents happen, developers are happy to have log files. Logs are often written out in a human-readable...

Spring Tips: Beans, Beans: What's in a Spring bean?

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we explore the essential Spring bean. What are they, how are they created, and what do they mean to you?...

Spring Tips: Hello, Java 22!

Hi, Spring fana! In this installment, I look at the amazing, just-released, Java 22!...

Spring Tips: Spring Boot Testjars

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the brand new Spring Boot Testjars project, which greatly simplifies standing up and reusing satellite Java-based services like other Spring Boot-based microservices or infrastructure like the Spring Authorization Server. springboot java java21...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security legend Laura Spilca joins us to talk Spring Authorization Server and upgrading to Spring Boot 3

Hi, Spring fans! This week, my first as an employee of Broadcom, I am joined by Spring Security community legend Laura Spilca and we talk about all things security, OAuth, and more...

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...

This Week in Spring - July 4th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop. If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Sprin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Micrometer lead Tommy Ludwig, recorded from beautiful Barcelona, Spain during the fabulous Spring I/O event!...

This Week in Spring - June 6th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on the latest and greatest in Java

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando, recorded live from the amazing Spring I/O show in Barcelona, Spain!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Grubhub's Josh Burns on Kotlin, Spring Boot, and more

We're crossing the streams, again! This time Josh Long talks to Grubhub's John Burns twitter: @wakingrufus mastodon: @[email protected] about dogfooding human food, Grubhub's tech stack, and more...

A Bootiful Podcast: James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan on the latest in Spring Integration 6

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan @artembilan about the latest and greatest in Spring Integration. Spring Integration makes it easier to connect an increasingly larger ecosystem of disparate services and systems. SHOW NOTES: I...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast

Liiiive from New York, its a Bootiful Podcast! This week I @starbuxman talk to Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs, and legend, Alina Yurenko @alinayurenko...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion Gunnar Morling about messaging middleware, Debezium, change data capture, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Champion Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling about messaging middleware, Debezium, and more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legendary engineer, and teacher Trisha Gee

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Champion, legendary engineer, and teacher Trisha Gee @trishagee bout her extraordinary career working at organizations like LMAX, MongoDB, Jetbrains, and her new books, Heads First Java, and Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA...

A Bootiful Podcast: Google mad scientist Josh Suereth on Observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman looks at the latest and greatest in Spring Boot 3 AOT, then talks to Googles Josh Suereth @jsuereth about observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more. Want to learn more about Spring Boot and the wider...

Delete Passwords: Passwordless Connections for Spring Boot Apps to Azure Services

Using username/password credentials to access one application from another presents a huge security risk for many reasons. Today, we are announcing the preview of passwordless connections for Java applications to Azure database and eventing services, letting you finally shift away from using...

This Week in Spring - September 13th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Weve got a lot of good stuff to get to so lets dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorps Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Kubernetes contributor Ryan Baxter

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to a person who knows more than most about the awesome implications of both the words "Spring" and "Cloud," Spring Cloud Kubernetes lead Ryan Baxter @ryanjbaxter...

A Bootiful Podcast: JVM and .NET legend Ted Neward on... just about everything

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I @starbuxman talk to my old friend, world-famous polyglot and code curmudgeon, software philosopher, industry veteran, and legend of ecosystems aplenty, Ted Neward @tedneward...

Bootiful Podcast: Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze on GraalVM, AOT, project Leyden, and WebAssembly

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze @sdeleuze on GraalVM, AOT, project Leyden, and WebAssembly...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraphQL Java founder Andi Marek

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of a Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to the GraphQL Java project founder and lead, Atlassian engineer, and Spring GraphQL cofounder Andi Marek @andimarek...

Beyond JSON: Converting Spring AI Tool Response Formats to TOON, XML, CSV, YAML, ...

JSON is the go-to format for LLM tool responses, but recent discussions around alternative formats like TOON Token-Oriented Object Notation claim potential benefits in token efficiency and performance. While the debate continues—with critical analyses pointing to context-dependent results—the...

Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC 4.0 will support Composite IDs

I'm happy to announce, that Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC finally support Composite IDs starting with version 4.0.0-M4. Most of you probably know, but just to make sure everyone has the same understanding: From the database point of view a composite id or composite key is a primary key that consists...

Prompt Engineering Techniques with Spring AI

This blog post demonstrates practical implementations of Prompt Engineering techniques using Spring AI. The examples and patterns in this article are based on the comprehensive Prompt Engineering Guide that covers the theory, principles, and patterns of effective prompt engineering. The blog show...

This Week in Spring - January 28th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' and exciting installment of This Week in Spring , wherein we look at the amazing week that was in the Spring community. And what a week it's been! In addition to tons of cool tooling and AI related stuff, this week saw the release of the first steps...

Spring Tips: Go Further, Faster with Spring Boot 3.3 (UPDATED)

NB: I had an error in the AppCDS demo in the older video. This video supercedes that video, with a re-recorded segment on AppCDS. Make sure you're watching the latest of these two similarly titled videos! Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at ways to make your applications go further,...

This Week in Spring - June 18th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just come from Paris, France, and now I'm in equally beautiful Krakow, Poland, for the amazing Devoxx PL event. We've got a ton of good stuff to dive into, so let's get going! In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I...

This Week in Spring - June 11th, 2024

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Paris, France, to talk to organizations using and working with Spring. Then, next week, it's off to Krakow, Poland, for the amazing Devoxx PL event! I can't wait. If you're around,...

This Week in Spring - May 21st, 2024

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been yet another amazing and exciting week and with it a bevy of new releases. And of course, in about a week's time, we will find ourselves at Spring IO, ready to show a lot of these new things. Will you be there? I will! Anyway, let's...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring founders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller on the 20th Anniversary of Spring Framework 1.0

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson @springrod and Juergen Hoeller @springjuergen discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004...

A Bootiful Podcast: Marit van Dijk, Jetbrains Developer Advocate

Jetbrains Developer Advocate Marit van Dijk on reading code, IntelliJ IDEA, and more...

Hypermedia and Browser Enhancement

Front end development these days is dominated by large JavaScript client side frameworks. There are plenty of good reasons for that, but it can be very inefficient for many use cases, and the framework engineering has become extremely complex. In this article, I want to explore a different...

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC 1 Billion Row Challenge...

This Week in Spring - January 30th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! Sadly, he passed in 2019. I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring creator Rod Johnson and Oracle vice president Heather VanCura

Hi, Spring and software fans! In this installment of the show we have Spring creator and investor Rod Johnson and Oracle vice president Heather VanCura on the show to talk about the premise of her new book - Developer Career Masterplan, coauthored with fellow Java luminary Bruno Souza: building...

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...

A Use Case for Transactions: Outbox Pattern Strategies in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Binder

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part ...

Apache Kafka’s Exactly-Once Semantics in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part ...

This Week in Spring - August 29th, 2023 - the post SpringOne recovery blog

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm exhausted. Seriously. Last week was mental. If you need me, I'll be over sipping on a tea... But, before that, there's a ton of things to cover from this last week, as always, and there's no rest for the curious, so let's...