A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Legend Glenn Renfro on Devnexus 2025, Cold brews, and More

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro...

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do. I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be...

A Bootiful Podcast: 'Just Use Postgres!' author Denis Magda

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Java and distributed database ninja Denis Magda about his new book, "Just Use Postgres!", which looks at how to wield Postgres for a variety of use cases that an application developer should know...

This Week in Spring - February 4th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 4th, 2025, as I write this. We are ten days away from Valentine's day, and about a month away from Devnexus. Lots to look forward to, in both the short term and the long term! Let's dive right into this week's...

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do. I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be...

A Bootiful Podcast: HTMX creator Carson Gross

Hi, Spring and HTML fans! Today I talk to hypermedia enjoyer Carson Gross, creator of the ever popular HTMX library which eschews a ton of the complexity associated with building client side applications...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on JavaOne 2025, Java 24, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! in this installment I talk to Java developer advocate Billy Korando about the latest and greatest in the amazing Java ecosystem! java JavaOne Oracle...

Building Effective Agents with Spring AI (Part 1)

In a recent research publication: Building effective agents, Anthropic shared valuable insights about building effective Large Language Model LLM agents. What makes this research particularly interesting is its emphasis on simplicity and composability over complex frameworks. Let's explore how...

This Week in Spring - January 21st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to dive into this week's wondrous roundup! Good news, everybody! Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 is available! A neat video on stored procedures in Spring A very interesting article on the flow diagrams for Sprin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Apache Causeway’s Dan Haywood

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Dan Haywood, contributor to the Apache Causeway project...

This Week in Spring - January 14th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy! I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seat...

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Dave Syer on the new and nifty Spring gRPC project

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the good and the great Dr. Dave Syer about the experimental! new Spring gRPC project!...

This Week in Spring - January 7th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! It's been another super seven days since we last spoke and, as always, there's a lot to cover so let's dive right into it! A long time in coming, but it's finally here! Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring the Spring AI hits just keep on...

Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring

The Spring team will be rolling out a simplified contribution process that replaces the requirement to sign a Contributor License Agreement CLA with a Developer Certificate of Origin DCO. The process will start this week with Spring Framework, Spring Security, & Spring Boot and then roll out to t...

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: Intact's Luke Shannon

Hi, Spring fans! and happy holidays! in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more...

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...

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!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Intact's Luke Shannon

Hi, Spring fans! and happy holidays! in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more...

Announcing Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol

We're excited to introduce Spring AI MCP, a robust Java SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol MCP. This new addition to the Spring AI ecosystem brings standardized AI model integration capabilities to the Java platform. What is MCP? The Model Context Protocol MCP is an open protocol th...

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...

This Week in Spring - December 10th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere it's summer down here!, in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun! I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - chec...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch on the amazing Spring Security 6.4 release

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to the amazing Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security 6.4, about the jam-packed new release! spring springboot security java...

Audio Multimodality: Expanding AI Interaction with Spring AI and OpenAI

This blog post is co-authored by our great contributor Thomas Vitale. OpenAI provides specialized models for speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion, recognized for their performance and cost-efficiency. Spring AI integrates these capabilities via Voice-to-Text and Text-to-Speech TTS. The ne...

This Week in Spring - December 3rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the first week of December and I am in the amazing city of Perth, Australia. Perth, for those of you who don't know, is amazing. And well worth the journey. But it is quite the journey! 27 hours, door-to-door, from San...

Extending Spring Data Repositories Just Got Easier

Since its inception, Spring Data Repositories have been designed for extension, whether you want to customize a single query method or provide a completely new base implementation. The 2024.1 release enhances your ability to extend a repository with custom functionality making it easier than ever...

A Bootiful Podcast: PostgreSQL contributor Dave Cramer

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to my American listeners! and happy Thursday to the everyone! In today's episode I talk to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL JDBC contributor Dave Cramer. postgresql jdbc sql java...

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Happy Spring Boot 3.4 release month to those who celebrate! And, also, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Spring Boot 3.4 brings with it long-anticipated updates to the entire...

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...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring AI

I love Spring AI. It’s an amazing project designed to bring the patterns and practices of AI engineering to the Spring Boot developer. It’s got clean idiomatic abstractions that’ll make any Sring developer feel right at home, and it has a ton of integrations with all manner of different vector...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Boot

And now we’re back where we started: Spring Boot 3.4! This release is what pulls everything together. When you look at Spring Boot, remember that it normalizes the integration of all the projects it assembles and tries, wherever possible, to smooth out whatever integration issues might arise from...

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Batch

The new release of Spring Batch 5.2 has a ton of features! Spring Batch is a compelling way to handle large but finite sequential data access. Think: reading from an SQL database and writing to a CSV, or reading from an FTP server and writing out an analysis of a MongoDB - batch processing. You...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Heroku's Terence Lee

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 3.4.0 release day to those who celebrate! Today I'm joined by both Terence Lee, from Heroku, and my friend DaShaun Carter, and we talk about platforms, buildpacks, and more. heroku paas buildpacks,...

Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path to Generative AI

Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path for Spring Developers to the World of Generative AI Intro As a Java developer exploring the world of generative AI, you’re probably aware of several frameworks that promise to make AI integration easy. I believe Spring AI stands out as the natural choice, especial...

This Week in Spring - November 19th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Can you believe we're already staring at the end of the month? It's that time of the year when we see new releases, and the new releases reflect that frenzy! Soon: Spring Boot 3.4.0! Are you updated? Make sure you're updated! Remember: Spring projects leave open sour...

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...

This Week in Spring - November 12th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Spring Cloud 2024.0.0-RC1 aka Moorgate has been released In this installment of A Bootiful Podcast , I talk to Gradle developer advocate Baruch Sadogursky good news everybody! GraalVM will now support jcmd, which allows you t...

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 - November 5th, 2024

This Week in Spring - November 5th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 5th of November, 2024, and, um, I - an American - am desperately trying to keep calm and carry on. I did everything I can do VOTE!, and so it's with considerable enthusiasm th...

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...

RestClient Support for OAuth2 in Spring Security 6.4

In Spring Security 6.2 and 6.3, we have worked to steadily improve configuration for applications using OAuth2 Client. Configuration for common use cases has been simplified by allowing applications to publish beans which are automatically included in the overall OAuth2 Client configuration durin...

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: GraalVM founder and BDFL Thomas Wuerthinger on GraalPy, GraalVM, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to GraalVM founder and benevolent dictator for life Thomas Wuerthinger, recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2024!...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM founder and BDFL Thomas Wuerthinger on GraalPy, GraalVM, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to GraalVM founder and benevolent dictator for life Thomas Wuerthinger, recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2024!...

Leverage the Power of 45k, free, Hugging Face Models with Spring AI and Ollama

This blog post is co-authored by our great contributor Thomas Vitale. Ollama now supports all GGUF models from Hugging Face , allowing access to over 45,000 community-created models through Spring AI's Ollama integration, runnable locally. We'll explore using this new feature with Spring AI. The...