A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legend, and prolific open source contributor Andres Almiray

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Java Champion, legend, and prolific opensource contributor Andres Almiray @aalmiray...

Spring Session 3.0.0-RC1

Spring Session 3.1.0-RC1 has been released. The biggest news from this release is that Spring Session Geode was removed which means all of the Spring Modules now belong to the same lifecycle. This means that the Spring Session BOM no longer uses CalVer and instead uses the same version as the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring and Java community legend Marten Deinum

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to longtime Spring community member and legend Marten Deinum @mdeinum about scuba diving, software, Spring, community, and more. Also: I fixed the odd silence in the middle of the last few episodes! thanks for suffering through it...

A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang @joatmon08 about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot...

A Bootiful Podcast: RabbitMQ rabbit-herder Dan Carwin

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to a very busy rabbit-herder on the RabbitMQ team, Dan Carwin @dcarwin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega @therealdanvega...

Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is Now Generally Available

NOTE: Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from Sean Li, our friend at Microsoft I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is now generally available. With this major release we aim to bring better security, leaner dependencies, support for production readiness and more. Version 4...

A Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on his new book 'Testing Spring Boot Applications'

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Daniel Garnier-Moiroux and talk about "Testing Spring Boot Applications," from Manning! testing springboot java kotlin springframework...

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week indeed since we last spoke! Last week I was in Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference and for the JSpring event in Utrecht. Now, I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the JJUG Spring 2025 event. Importantly: both...

A Bootiful Podcast: V Körbes on security from the platform on up

Hi, Spring fans! In today's extra special installment I talk to Broadcom's V Körbes who works on security above and below the application...

Null Safety in Spring applications with JSpecify and NullAway

The initial introduction of the null safety support in Spring dates back to 2017 and the release of Spring Framework 5.0. In 2025, we are evolving that story to bring more added value for Spring developers, either in Java or Kotlin. But before having a deeper look to the changes we are working on...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dez Blanchfield, a tech legend for all ages

Hi, Spring fans! Happy happy = new Year2025! It's a new year and a new opportunity! In this episode I talk to my friend and legendary technologist Dez Blanchfield!...

This Year in Spring - December 31st, 2024

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Year! And welcome to another installment of This Year in Spring! The year that was... I write this edition from a desk overlooking the beautiful jungle of Martinique, a beautiful island nation in the French Caribbean. I’m sipping some rhum martinique , enjoying the...

A Bootiful Podcast: the amazing K. Siva Prasad Reddy (SivaLabs)

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment I talk to industry legend K. Siva Prasad Reddy @sivalabs. You've probably read one of his blogs. I know I have!...

HTTP/3 support in Reactor 2024.0 Release Train

HTTP/3, the latest major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, had its specification finalized in June 2022. This version is designed to enhance performance, reliability, and security. Unlike its predecessors, HTTP/3 utilizes QUIC instead of TCP as its transport layer. QUIC is a UDP-based,...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Start Here

Hi, Spring fans! And happy Spring Boot 3.4 release to those who celebrate! I know, I know what you're thinking: Josh, Spring Boot 3.4 already shipped! I know it. Spring Boot 3.4 dropped a week earlier this year! In the last couple of years, we’ve released Spring Boot on the same day as Thanksgivi...

This Week in Spring - October 29th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! How're things? It's almost Halloween! I'm so excited! I'm going as a PHP program. Boooooooo...t. I'm writing this from the amazing Vaadin Create conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about to do my keynote for an amazing, Spring-loving audience here. So, without further ado, let's di...

Let’s use OpenTelemetry with Spring

Introduction In the dynamic realm of observability, OpenTelemetry is a new set of tools that emerged from the now-deprecated OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. When it comes to Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Cloud observability, mature solutions like Micrometer, the de...

A Bootiful Podcast: Gradle and Develocity engineer and Spring community legend Eric Haag

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Gradle and Develocity engineer and Spring community legend Eric Haag...

Spring Tips: HTMX

Hi, Spring fans! HTMX is the progressive hypertext sensation that's sweeping the process of web app creation, and - thanks to a nice integration by Spring community legend Wim Deblauwe, it's easier than ever to use it with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. And, it's the topic of today's installment! jav...

Spring AI with Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine

Faster information processing not only informs - it transforms how we perceive and innovate. Spring AI, a powerful framework for integrating AI capabilities into Spring applications, now offers support for Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine with support for Tool/Function calling...

Spring Tips: Further, Faster with Spring Boot 3.3

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at ways to make your applications go further, faster, with AppCDS, GraalVM, AOT on the JRE, and Project CRaC coordinate restore at checkpoint springboot java graalvm programming coding...

A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains Developer Advocate Pasha Finkelshteyn

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Jetbrains' Developer Advocate Pasha Finkelshteyn...

Spring Tips: the Spring Expression Language

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at the excellent Spring Expression Language, an embedded language for resolving simple expressions that is built right into the Spring Framework...

A Bootiful Podcast: Netflix’s Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring B...

Spring Tips: the Spring Authorization Server: durability of data

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we continue our look at the venerable Spring Authorization Server, this time looking at how to configure persistence and durability for various aspects of the system...

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs like the one behind ChatGPT and tools to support the RAG retrieval augmented generation pipeline. ai springboot artificialintelligence java graalvm cloud java21 postgresq...

Spring Security 6.3 Adds Passive JDK Serialization/Deserialization for Seamless Upgrades

In the early versions of Spring Security, a deliberate decision was made to avoid providing any guarantee of compatibility for serialized classes via JDK serialization between different versions of the project. This decision primarily took into account the context of RMI, with the recommendation...

A Bootiful Podcast: iText Creator Bruno Lowagie

Hi, Spring fans! We're releasing Spring Boot 3.2 today! And it's Thanksgiving in the USA Happy Thanksgiving!. So, we wanted to celebrate with an amazing episode, and so today's guest is opensource legend Bruno Lowagie. Enjoy!...

Spring Tips: Spring Boot 3.2

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the new Spring Boot 3.2 release, due to drop today, the 23rd of November 2023! 23-11-23! We're diving into the cool new features of Spring Boot 3.2 and Java 21. We'll explore how virtual threads from Project Loom make your code run...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls

Hi, Spring fans! This week, I'm joined by one of my longtime heroes and fellow Disney fans, Craig Walls @habuma. He wrote the most popular book on Spring, Spring in Action, while helping the world stay connected with efforts like Spring Social. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023, in...

This Week in Spring - October 10th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium event, and this week I've been in Amsterdam for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam stop and - in the middle of the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam event - I dipped out to...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to the legendary Dr. David Syer about view rendering technologies, SpringOne, and more. Have you registered for SpringOne yet? Are you interested in learning Spring? Check out Spring Academy...

Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy! Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is t...

Docker Compose Support in Spring Boot 3.1

Docker Compose support in Spring Boot 3.1 builds on top of the ConnectionDetails abstraction, which we've featured in a separate blog post. If you haven't already read it, please do so before reading this post. Docker Compose "is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications...

A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like...

A Bootiful Podcast: It's Glenn Renfro! Listen to this episode if you want to feel better

Hi, Spring fans! Today Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Atlanta JUG, Devnexus, Spring Cloud Task, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Dataflow luminary, and the living embodiment of the word "joy:" Glenn Renfro @cppwfs Watch the podcast in living color on Youtube!...

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...

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

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

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam @venkats about the art of writing software, his latest projects, and more...

This Week in Spring - August 1st, 2022

Aloha, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Im still on vacation on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, but I wanted to say hello "aloha!" and share this weeks latest roundup of all thats good and glorious in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Funny thing,...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes cofounder and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Kubernetes cofounder, all-around nice person, and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie @cmcluck...

A Bootiful Podcast: JetBrains' Marit van Dijk

hi Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! In this installment I talk to my friend and JetBrains Developer Advocate extraordinaire Marit van Dijk! This episode was recorded at JNation, an amazing show in Coimbra, Portugal! jetbrains java jnation...

A Bootiful Podcast: the legendary Adib Saikali

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so thrilled to have been able to sit down and talk to my friend Adib Saikali!...

Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 3): Why Your AI Agent Forgets Tasks (And How to Fix It)

Have you ever asked an AI agent to perform a complex multi-step task, only to find it skipped a critical step halfway through? You're not alone. Research shows that LLMs struggle with "lost in the middle" failures—forgetting tasks buried in long contexts. When your agent juggles file edits, test...

Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors

The Spring AI ChatClient offers a fluent API for communicating with an AI model. The fluent API provides methods for building the constituent parts of a prompt that gets passed to the AI model as input. Advisors are a key part of the fluent API that intercept, modify, and enhance AI-driven...

This Week in Spring (AI) - May 27th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This time, I'm talking to you after an insane week behind me. Last week I flew from San Francisco to Stockholm, Sweden where I was the speaker for the JForum event, a monthly meetup. Spring drew the largest audience to JForum...

This Week in Sprng - April 1st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! It's April Fools day, so be wary of things you read on the internet, but it's also the 11th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, which was released this day in 2014! that's not an April Fools. Happy birthday! I'm in...