This Week in Spring: Tutorials, Releases, and the Return of Spring Tips

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I’ve been in Seattle, WA, and now, I’m off to Toronto, Canada, for the epic SpringOne Tour Toronto edition, the last SpringOne Tour for the year, too! (Can you believe we’re now less than 22 days from 2019? Time sure flies when you’re having fun!)

• Spring Tips is back! And what a season we have planned for you! Last week, we introduced the first new video, this one looking at the Spring support for Microsoft Azure. As always, you can see the whole playlist at the Spring Tips YouTube Playlist, and you should check back on this blog every Wednesday over the next few months for new installments.
• Spring Data Moore M1 is out!
• We are happy to announce the Spring REST Docs 2.0.3.RELEASE.
• Spring REST Docs 1.2.6.RELEASE is also out now!
• Check out these RabbitMQ Best Practices!
• Here’s a Reactive Programming and Relational Databases article worth reading.
• Learn more about the Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR6.
• Check out the latest Spring Tools 4.0.2 release.
• I liked this StackOverflow question and the subsequent answer from JUnit 5 and Spring Test Framework lead Sam Brannen on how to get the effect of @IfProfileValue in a JUnit 5-based Spring application test.
• This new change to the OpenZipkin supporting correlation of events in the Java Flight Recorder looks very interesting, wouldn’t you say? Any thumbs up are appreciated!
• Speaking of Zipkin, it just passed a big milestone: the 10,000th person to star Zipkin on GitHub!
• Check out this cool feature that makes your Spring Cloud Gateway filters aware of things like path variables.
• This looks like it could be an interesting video on Spring transaction management.
• Baeldung has a nice post on debugging Reactive Streams in Spring 5.
• Knative momentum continues, hitting another adoption milestone!
• Want to learn more about testing Spring applications? Check out my vJUG talk from a few months ago.
• The first commerically supported tracing tool to support Zipkin-formatted data with zero changes, natively, has just been announced: Codecentric’s Instana.
• Pivotal has a nice whitepaper on supersonic application development and delivery with Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Want to use RabbitMQ in a reactive context? Why wouldn’t you? Now, you can! Reactor RabbitMQ 1.0.0 GA is out!
• Not stricly related to Spring, but interesting nonetheless: a non-exhaustive but interesting list of JDBC Driver Connection URL strings.
• Auth0 has a nice Spring WebFlux tutorial.
• Check out and offer your feedback on the new Spring Data Kotlin extension.
• Pivotal announces a new serverless framework — Pivotal Function Service.
• Demystifying Tracking Event Processors in Axon Framework
• Speaking of Axon, here’s a nice (albeit, slightly older) Italian-language post on CQRS with Spring and Axon, or CQRS con Spring e Axon.
• The design process is an iterative one. “The most deadly thing in software is the concept… that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it.” — 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference!
• This Stackoverflow question:“Why Java takes much more RAM than -Xmx?” is well worth a read.
• Spring Tools 4.0.2 released, grab the latest
• This project demonstrating Spring Boot 2, GraphQL, Angular, and more might be helpful if that’s a usecase you have.
• Again, not strictly related to Spring, this is interesting. It’s a look at Java startup time from Java 8 through Java 11.
• JaVers 5.0.0 has been released. This major release makes JaVers fully compatible with Spring Boot 2.1 and Spring Framework 5.1. JaVers is a framework to support auditing objects.
• Grails 3.3.9 released with GORM 6.1.11, Spring Boot 1.5.18, Spring 4.3.21.RELEASE