Hi, Spring fans! Happy new year! And welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Today is a significant installment because it marks a decade of This Week in Spring! I started this roundup after a fun discussion with the legendarily nice guy and SpringSource co-founder Keith Donald in late 2010 over the holiday. Lo, the first week of January 2011, the first edition of this roundup went out the door on the old SpringSource.org blog. It's been so much fun putting together this roundup, without fail, every Tuesday for the last decade. You wouldn't believe the lengths to which I went…

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (#YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. Have you tried out Paketo? It's neat-o! It alleviates one of the biggest pains of cloudy software these days:Dockerfiles. As…

Hi, Spring fans! You know what I did? I goofed, people. I accidentally released This Week in Spring on this the last week of December, the last month of the year! And I shouldn't have. I should not have done that. Usually, you see, I turn the final installment of This Week in Spring for a given year into the aptly named This Year in Spring, a celebration of the big tentpole themes that have defined the year (well, from my perspective, anyway). Then I include the usual This Week in Spring roundup inline. I forgot to do that first part, so I am publishing this as a separate post. Hey, it's…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast and happy new year! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google's Daniel Zou . Happy New Year!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? How're things? I spent this morning on a fun two-hour panel hosted by the Barcelona JUG (who run the JBCN conference, among other things) talking about all sorts of things including GraalVM native images, new features in the Java language, cloud-native applications, and so much more. Thanks for having me! I am so happy about this week's roundup and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! A Bootiful Podcast: Alibaba's San-Hong Li on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba Scale Cloud Events and Spring - part 2 Cosium…

Hi, Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Alibaba's San-Hong Li (@SanHong_Li) on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba-scale. Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 22nd, 2020, as I write this and I can not believe we're smack dab in the middle of the week and only have two shopping days until Christmas! I don't know if it's just that time of year and I'm flush with the normal amount of warm-n-fuzzies or if it's just that, after a year like 2020, I'm very keen on savoring this precious reprieve. Either way, couldn't be happier. I've got a cold! I'm sick and sneezing and my nose is running, but at least it's not COVID-19, and at least I've got my family and my job, and…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Cloud Foundry Developer Advocate Shedrack Akintayo (@coder_blvck) . Also: Happy Holidays!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already December 15th? Me either! Another few weeks and this soul annhilating year will be over with and we'll be staring down 2021 filled with new hopes and possibilities! How are you? (Have you dipped into the eggnog yet?) I'm doing alright, thanks! I've been busy, as usual. Most of that was fun stuff. But, some of that, I confess, was a mess of my own making. I spent Monday cleaning up a fire I'd set for myself. You see, I got a little sloppy with last week's podcast episode. Last week, I was…

Hi, Spring fans! In this special midweek installment I correct a mistake I made last week when I inadvertently released the episode featuring Dion Almaer, with the interview I conducted with Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine. This is the actual episode with Mahmoud Ben Hassine, with the correct title and everything! Enjoy!