This Week in Spring: Spring Data, Security, Cloud, and More

Hi, Spring fans! What a week! This week, I’m in San Francisco, CA; Columbus, OH (for the epic SpringOne Tour stop there), and then it’s off to Tel Aviv, Israel, for customer visits and an appearance at the Israel JUG. If you’re around, then I’d love to connect!

Anyway, and as always, we’ve got tons to cover, so let’s get to it!

• Spring Cloud Finchley.SR3 Now Available
• Out-of-the-Box Application Observability with Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Pivotal
• The CIO’s guide to Kubernetes
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Skipper 2.0 RC1 Released
• Spring Tools 4.1.2 released
• Last week, in A Bootiful Podcast, I had the privilege of interviewing Sree Tummidi, Senior Product Manager for Security at Pivotal
• CVE-2019-3778: Spring Security OAuth 2.3.5, 2.2.4, 2.1.4, 2.0.17 Released
• Check out the latest-and-greatest in my second favorite place on the Internet, start.Spring.io: What’s new with Spring Initializr.
• Last week was the recap post for season 5 of Spring Tips where we look at all the episodes from the last season.  I’m already hard at work on season 6, of course, so stay tuned. If you get through season 5, then you might want to go back and watch previous episodes.
• Check out part two of this Flowable BMPN system webinar series where they use serverless functions. Spoiler: they’re building a process as a service function using Spring Fu and GraalVM that boots up in 13ms.
• Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1 — don't forget to check this out!
• RSocket: Reactive Streaming Service Networking with Ryland Degnan - Software Engineering Daily
• The Okta blog is killing it! Check out their latest post on OAuth 2.0 device flow and social login for Spring Boot (using reactive Spring, MongoDB, and so much more).
• Another great post on the Okta blog, this one i18n (“internationalization”) in Java 11, Spring Boot, and JavaScript.
• Netifi has put together a collection of YouTube videos related to RSocket with speakers from Pivotal, Facebook, and Netifi
• This isn’t, strictly speaking, related to Spring, but it’s interesting: SalesForce’s jProtoc 0.9.0 is out! It’s a Java protofuf compiler.
• I love watching the cool things that Thomas Darimont gets up to. This time, he’s put together a nice demo on using Spring Security, SAML, Spring Boot, and IBM/RedHat/JBoss KeyCloak. Check it out!
• Roger Stone takes the stand — and much ridiculousness ensues — via The Washington Post.
• This post is nuts! It’s how we get JNI cross-compilation with Docker to work in order to create a Java agent to aid developers using Reactor.
• Have you seen BlockHound 1.0.0.M1? It’s a plugin that detects blocked threads in your reactive code. Neat!
• I love this podcast interview with Michael Cote and Paul Czarkowski on running Spring Boot apps on Kubernetes and more.
• Sébastien Deleuze has some good news to share: it seems that the next milestone of Spring Data R2DBC will have Kotlin Coroutines support!
• Here is a nice post on Mkyong on JUnit 5 and Spring Boot and Mockito
• The 2.1.0.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Contract (Greenwich.RELEASE release train) supports binary payloads. Here you can find a commit that adds a sample of how you can use it
• Here is another nice post on the Okta blog; this one is on adding social login to Your JHipster App.