Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to longtime Spring community legend and Trifork CTO Joris Kuipers. Happy new year!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in Spring. So, here are some of the biggest themes in the year 2023, and then we'll get to our regularly scheduled roundup.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You've no doubt heard all about the incredible leapfrogging advancements being made in the area of artificial intelligence! It's everywhere! Even before…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Cloud Native Whitney Lee about cloud infrastructure, that one trick every dev must know, her new operations-centric gameshow, and more. Happy holidays to y'all!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another oh-so-festive edition of This Week in Spring!

• the Spring Authorization Server 1.2.1, 1.1.14, and 0.4.5, are now available
• Spring AMQP 3.1.1 is now available
• Spring Security 5.8.9, 6.1.6, 6.2.1 are now available
• Spring for Apache Kakfa 3.1.1 is now available
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.1 is now available
• Spring Data 2023.1.1 and 2023.0.7 are now available
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Microcks.io contributors Laurent Broudoux and Yacine-Kheddache
• Digma has a nice blog about the "Spring way" of doing things: 9 ways to improve your Spring Boot skills. It's a good'un!
• Fellow Java Champion and industry legend Simon Martinelli has a nice blog, …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk about the wide world of AI and then discuss microservice testing with Microcks.io contributors and founders Laurent Broudoux and Yacine-Kheddache. This was recorded live from Devoxx BE 2023!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to a new installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right in!

• Laur Spilca and I look at how to ugprade a Spring Security 5.x application to Spring Security 6.x.
• Apache SkyWalking with Sheng Wu and Apache ShardingSphere with Trista Pan
• I looked at all of the new Spring Cloud Leyton releases
• Exciting! Spring Tools 4.21.0 has been released
• Spring Cloud Leyton and I looked at it in detail in this epic mega video of 2.5+ hours duration. Enjoy!
• On last week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast, I was joined by legends Rod Johnson, creator of Spring, and Heather VanCura, VP at Oracle, to talk about career path development
• …

Hi, Spring and software fans! In this installment of the show we have Spring creator and investor Rod Johnson and Oracle vice president Heather VanCura on the show to talk about the premise of her new book - Developer Career Masterplan, coauthored with fellow Java luminary Bruno Souza: building your path to senior levels and beyond.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

• today, Spring Cloud, based on Spring Boot 3.2, goes GA! Don't miss this!
• I love this blog by Spring Framework legend Sébastien Deleuze on CDS with Spring Framework 6.1
• I really enjoyed this discussion with Spring Security community legend Laur Spilca
• there's a very interesting blog post here on how Netflix increased application performance with Spring Boot 3 on Java 17
• Digma has a nice blog looking at the new features in Spring Boot 3.2
• I like this blog looking at the power of the ResponseEntity<?>
• the state of the Octoverse blog from yesterday is really interesting! Typescript and Java changed places, which makes sense because Typescript is encroachign on JavaScript's territory and JavaScript is arguably the number one most popular (or infamous, anyway) language. Also: Singapore apparently has more than one million developers, which is great because there's not even six million people in the country, making it the country with the highest…

As a follow-up to the Runtime efficiency with Spring blog post, I am happy to share that our exploration of Project Leyden optimizations has led to some interesting discoveries regarding the JDK's little-used CDS ("Class Data Sharing") feature and has materialized into a new feature that we have been able to ship in Spring Framework 6.1.

As stated in the official documentation, Class Data Sharing (CDS) helps reduce the startup time and memory footprint of JVMs by caching class metadata in an archive file so that it can be quickly pre-loaded into a newly launched JVM. This accelerates class…