Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Chicago, IL, for the spectacular GOTO conference, Chicago edition. If you're in the Chicago area, ping me on Twitter (@starbuxman). Cloud Foundry Summit just wrapped today as 1500 people came together to talk about the community and the technology. Spring made a strong showing, even getting a general session shoutout from James Watters for Spring Boot passing 1 Million downloads in April. Now, without further ado.. Spring Tool Suite ninja Kris De Volder just announced the new support for editing .yml files in STS - this…
"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -Conrad Hall "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -Winston Churchill "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss "Good students are good at all things." -Marissa Mayer "The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein Warning: if you're a seasoned developer, than this may not be the post you're looking for. Keep reading, anyway. I'll bet you know some developers who are taking their first…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Las Vegas at the mega EMC World event. Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced that Spring Security SAML 1.0.1 is now available Phillip Verheyden's talk offers a very pragmatic look athow to move Spring 3 application - including dependencies like Jackson and Hibernate - to take advantage of newer and new features in Spring 4.x. My pal Adib Saikali's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on building a rich client backends with Spring is now up Don't miss this replay of Spring ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference. Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Social Facebook 2.0 line. the good Dr. Syer just published a blog on different ways to bind services in Cloud Foundry Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security 4.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Security 4.0 line This Week's SpringOne2GX Replays are out! Marius Bogoevici shows us how to Build highly…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bangalore, India, at the Great Indian Developer Summit. Lots of the Spring Team are at JAXConf in Germany this week as well. A friendly reminder, if you're in the south west region of Europe, and Barcelona, Spain, specifically, and looking for fun in the sun, I can think of no better option than Spring I/O Conference, which is next week. Don't miss the many great talks from many amazing Spring team and Spring community members. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting and seeing you all! Without further ado, let's get…
Applications generated more and more data than ever before and a huge part of the challenge - before it can even be analyzed - is accommodating the load in the first place. Apache's Kafka meets this challenge. It was originally designed by LinkedIn and subsequently open-sourced in 2011. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. The design is heavily influenced by transaction logs. It is a messaging system, similar to traditional messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MQSeries, but it's ideal for log aggregation…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to discuss so let's get to it! Last week I was in Paris, France, for Devoxx, FR, and this week I'm in India for the Great Indian Developer Summit and for some meetings ahead of the conference in Bangalore and Hyderabad. If you're in Bombay, Hyderabad, or Bangalore, and want to talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, and big-data, let me know! In a week and some change, I'll be in Barcelona, Spain, for Spring I/O. If you're in Spain, be sure not to miss this amazing event! I, along with many other members of the Spring team…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm off to Paris, France for Devoxx France. Many of us on the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams will be there, so don't hesitate to reach out if you're about, we'd love to hear from you! Also, even if you're not at the show, come meet many of us on the Spring team (including Juergen Hoeller himself, Stéphane Nicoll, Brian Clozel, Sébastien Deleuze and of course yours truly) at this free Devoxx France event. Also, this Thursday I'll be speaking at the vJUG again, this time on building microservices with Spring Cloud. Don't miss it…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced the amazing Spring Security 4.0 release! This one is packed with amazing features including websocket support, Spring Data integration, enhanced testing support, and much improved defaults The Cloud Foundry Java buildpack now supports overriding inbuilt configuration through the use of well-named environment variables! This means you can tweak all manner of the default behavior without needing to fork the buildpack! Good news! Spring XD 1.…
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in São Paulo, Brazil, where I presented a workshop on building cloud-native applications - specifically microservices - with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry (via Pivotal Web Services). Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced Spring Data Fowler has gone GA, packed with lots of advanced Java 8 features, as well! The agenda for the Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain is now available! Check it out! Done with the microservices hype? Then let's get practical on April 21st. I'll be talking about how Spring…
