Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July 29th, 2024! I can hardly believe it! We're less than a month away from SpringOne 2024! Have you registered for either in-person attendance or the free livestreams yet? As always, we've got a ton of stuff to cover so let's dive right into it!

• first, Ollama just announced support for tools, and that's now supported in Spring AI!
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to cloud infrastructure legend Mark Fynes about Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, continuous delivery, and so much more.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.4 Released
• Generating HTTP clients from a Spring Boot application
• Seems interesting.. will have to check it out
• Implementing the strategy design pattern in Spring Boot
• From Prompts to Reality: Exploring Multimodal AI with Spring AI
• how to integrate open source models with Ollama (and Spring AI)
• A nice Italian language introduction to Spring AI
• this looks promising: a Spring AI tutorial