This Month in Spring - July 31st, 2018

July 31, 2018 Josh Long

KNative <3 Spring Boot

Hi Spring fans! How's things? I hope you're keeping healthy and happy and enjoying the summer (or winter, in the southern hemisphere) season in whatever part of the world you're in right now. It's August already! We're eight months into the year already. I'm still not done with my TODOs from February! Oi. The world's been a little crazy since last we spoke. Let's see.

Google's Ray Tsang and I delivered a packed talk at Google NEXT '18 on Spring Cloud GCP and the newly re-architected Project Riff function-as-a-service (now based on KNative, which Google and Pivotal announced this week).

I delivered an online training Monday, Bootiful Kotlin, that looks at using Kotlin with Spring. If you're interested, by the way, I'm delivering an encore to the packed Reactive Spring online training on the 2nd of August - this Thursday!

I just wrapped a 3.5 day long filming of the Spring Security Livelessons with my buddy and Spring Security lead Rob Winch. That was intense! I always learn something or other when I do these Livelessons videos but you never feel quite so out of your depth as when you're talking to Rob about all things security. There's a ton to know and not knowing it will ultimately cost you. Not knowing it is an existential threat. Or, you can use the Spring Security framework's sane defaults and let Rob worry about it for you.

I've been trying to keep busy, too. I spoke with customers and at conferences hither and thou. We had the epic Spring Days Los Angeles events. R&D meetings in Boston, the legendary OSCON conference in in Portland, OR.

About the Author

Josh Long (@starbuxman) is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware. Josh is a Java Champion, a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, author of six books (including O'Reilly's "Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry") and the just released "Reactive Spring" (ReactiveSpring.io), six best-selling Livelessons video trainings (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons" with Phil Webb and "Spring Security Livelessons" with Rob Winch, and "Cloud Foundry Livelessons" with Josh McKenty), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin). Josh also has a podcast, "A Bootiful Podcast," and does a series of screencasts, "Spring Tips", on YouTube (bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist). Josh routinely blogs on the Spring blog (spring.io/blog)

Follow on Twitter Visit Website More Content by Josh Long
Previous
Should That Be a Microservice? Part 5: Failure Isolation
Should That Be a Microservice? Part 5: Failure Isolation

When choosing an application architecture, six factors can help you decide when to use microservices. This ...

Next
Happy Birthday Istio: A Closer Look at How Pivotal is Embedding The Service Mesh to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative
Happy Birthday Istio: A Closer Look at How Pivotal is Embedding The Service Mesh to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative

Istio, an open-source project to simplify networking for microservices, just released version 1.0. We expla...

×

Subscribe to our Newsletter

!
Thank you!
Error - something went wrong!