This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there’s so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year’s SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It’s an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice? Join the discussion August 1-4, 2016 in beautiful Las Vegas and let’s find out!

We’ve got a lot to cover and very little time in which to do it so let’s get to it!

• Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has just announced that M1 is now available. The blog features a good look at the concepts behind consumer driven contracts, too, and so is well worth a read!
• Spring Cloud Data Flow product manager Sabby Anandan wrote up a very nice piece for the Pivotal blog on Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.0.
• check out this epic presentation by Spring Cloud Data Flow leads Dr. Pollack and Mark Fisher to learn more about data-driven microservices
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan has just announced Spring Integration AWS 1.0.0.RELEASE is now available. The final Release is a recommended update for all those using Spring Integration AWS M1
• Never one to rest on his laurels, Artem also announced that Spring Integration 4.3.1, 4.2.9, 4.1.9, 4.0.9 are available
• do you want to use Hazelcast on Cloud Foundry? Take a look at the service broker and information on its features, here
• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson’s just announced Spring REST Docs 1.1.1 which features a littany of small improvements and bugfixes.
• Rossen Stoyanchev just announced that Spring Web Flow 2.4.4 is now available. This is a maintenance release that, among other things, ensures compatability with Hibernate 5.2 and fixes several small things in JSF.
• the good Dr. Syer has published another installment in his series on building reactive applications, this time looking at building a simple Reactive HTTP server
• Krishna Srinivasan put together a nice look at how to use some of the Spring Boot Actuator module’s exposed endpoints
• I love what they’re doing at Stormpath, and this latest screencast is a good example of why
• Did you know that Pivotal has classes you can take to learn about Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Spring Cloud Services?
• The CAS project, series 5, continues their march to GA and to a comprehensive Spring Bootification of the code in their latest release, M3