This Week in Spring: NoHTTP, Organizational Consistency, Kotlin Microservices

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? We’re already almost halfway through June! Summer’s nearly here! It’s 97 degrees Fahrenheit/37 degrees Celsius in San Francisco! That’s nuts! I’m glad I’m in the beautiful Amsterdam and Eindhoven, NL, beating the heat, though. What a privilege. We’ve got a busy week, as always, so let’s get to it!

• The Spring team has undertaken a massive effort to eliminate insecure HTTP URLs in favor of HTTPS. Learn how we did it (and you could, too) in this blog: Announcing nohttp.
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb talks on Microservices, Brazil, and more
• In last week’s installment of Spring Tips: Organizational Consistency in your Spring Boot Applications, I introduced things you can do to achieve consistency in your applications including auto-configuration, building starter-dependencies, the Spring JavaFormat Maven plugin, and more.
• React-ing to start.spring.io User feedback updates — click here to learn more.
• Kotlin Microservice With Spring Boot Tutorial. Be sure to check it out!
• I also dig this article on how to bootstrap a Spring Boot application with Maven.
• An oldie-but-a-goodie: Spring Boot: A Work of Art.
• This is sort of awesome. Remember ZK? You can use with Spring Boot! Learn how in this “Using ZK With Spring Boot.”
• I love this nice post on how the Alibaba team lwered latency for Apache RocketMQ. Also of note: there’s a super-slick integration for Apache RocketMQ in Spring Cloud Alibaba. Check it out!
• Do not miss this replay of Olga Maciaszek and Marcin Grzejszczak’s Spring I/O talk, How to live in a post Spring Cloud Netflix world