Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll quickly look at how to integrate distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and the OpenZipkin project.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it. Fred Melo is one of Pivotal's brightest and when he talks about data, people listen. Here's your chance to watch his SpringOne Platform talk on data microservices The RabbitMQ Team has been busy! The RMQ Java Client has some very nice new (non-breaking) new features in Metrics, logging and Java NIO, among other things. Expanding on the metrics support in RMQ Java Client 4.0, the Rabbit team blogs about using JMX, Spring Boot Actuator and Coda Hale's awesome DropWizard Metrics library…

Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to process large amounts of sequential data using Spring Batch.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very busy week and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! first, the big news: Spring Boot 1.5 has just been released! The new release improves the integration with Cloud Foundry, features Spring Data Ingalls support, LDAP support, a loggers endpoint, and Apache Kafka auto-configuration support. Get started with Spring Boot now! Spring Data guru March Paluch put together a nice look at Spring Data Ingalls. The new release is packed with lots of great features including a 20-70% performance improvement, event publication…

Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the Spring Data Couchbase support in Spring Boot 1.4.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it: we've got an fresh batch of both new Spring Cloud software from the team and microservice themed S1P 2016 replays from Pieter Humphrey this week, so fasten your seat belt! Spring Cloud Data Flow product manager Sabby Anandan put together a great post on the Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1 release Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry lead Eric Bottard just announced the latest release supporting memory optimizations, Maven cache and disk optimizations, improved error handling, and task…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to get into this week - even more so than usual! So, let's get into it! This week there are a lot of great SpringOne Platform 2016 replays available online thanks to our very own Pieter Humphrey! Don't miss Stéphane Maldini's SpringOne Platform (S1P) 2016 talk introducing Reactor 3.0 or this S1P 2016 talk by Sebastien Deleuze and Stephane Maldini on reactive programming options for the JVM (introducing Reactor and RxJava, among others) Yahoo! Marcin just tweeted some exciting news: Pact support has been added to Spring…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and New York City talking to developers and toiling on the final edits to the O'Reilly book Cloud Native Java (almost there!). Also, marketing ninja Pieter Humphrey is ramping up the S1P 2016 replays, so fasten your seat belt and check the S1P 2016 YouTube playlist for the most current releases. We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Task ninja Glen Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.1 with a fast following, bug-fix only, 1.1.2 release. our latest and greatest Spring…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're now squarely in 2017, and 0 as always - there is much to cover! This is also the first week of the year. I note it with some pride because it also marks the 6th anniversary of the first installment of This Week in Spring, in January 2011, which I've since continued every Tuesday without fail come sickness, holiday, travel or otherwise. It's been a heckuva run and I'm excited to see what will grace This Week in Spring in the next 6+ years! I'm eternally grateful for all the people (from the community and internal to VMWare and now…

Welcome to a very special This Week in Spring! Every year we wrap up with a recap of highlights from the year. This year's no different! It's been a heckuva year, and the Pivotal Spring and Cloud Foundry teams seem to deliver bigger and better tech every passing day. If you've been following This Week in Spring then you'll no doubt be aware of the changes! It's hard to keep up, even for me, with the dizzying pace of releases! So, here are the top five things I'd encourage people to review from 2016: Spring Boot: this year saw the release of Spring Boot 1.4 which in turn contains support for…