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. That little tidbit’s blowing my mind!

Yesterday, by the way, was the first of April, and the tenth birthday of the first generally available 1.0 version of Spring Boot, released on the 1st of April, 2024. Happy birthday, Spring Boot!

Tomorrow, by the way, I’ll have a brand new not-to-be-missed video on Java 22 over on our humble YouTube channel, do not miss that!

Alrighty, my friends, we’ve got a ton to get through (and I’ve already put a few things on your plate for tomorrow…), so let’s dive into it!

• SpringOne is back! Save the date! We’ll be there, in Las Vegas, from August 26th to 29th, 2024. We’d love to see you there! And, we’d love it if you submitted a talk!
• I dig this Javarevisited blog (paywalled, alas…) which looks at distributed tracing in a Spring Boot application.
• Check out the discussion over on Software Engineering Daily with the Spring team’s Ryan Morgan and Dr. Mark Pollack where they talk about Spring AI.
• Speaking of Spring AI, want to learn more about it? Check out our new Spring Academy course on Spring AI by Spring legends Craig Walls (author of Spring in Action, no less!) and Rob McNees!
• I love Anthony Ikeda’s awesome look at getting started with Spring AI.
• Former InfoQ editor-in-chief and all-around amazing author Charles Humble has a fantastic write-up over on The New Stack: “How Spring and Java Shaped Internal Developer Platforms”.
• Also speaking of Spring AI, did you know that Spring AI will soon sport some service connections in Spring Boot, allowing seamless integration with Testcontainers?
• Spring Cloud 2023.0.1 (aka Leyton) Has Been Released.
• Spring for GraphQL 1.2.6 Released.
• In last week’s installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the amazing Jobrunr distributed job scheduler.
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi about their new, and awesome, book Beginning Spring 6.