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(2018-04-18) Redis

(2018-04-11) The Cloud Foundry Java Client

I'm off to Atlanta, Indianapolis and Cincinnati this week! I'll be speaking at the Atlanta, GA Spring Meetup on Tuesday the 10th where I'll be looking about all things new, bootiful and cloud-native including reactive programming, Spring Web Flux, Spring Cloud Finchley, Spring Cloud Function and Project Riff.

(2018-04-04) Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Streams

Happy Easter, friends! I spent the day walking around San Francisco basking in the beautiful San Francisco Sunday sun. There's so much good stuff happening in the neighborhood that one can't help but soak it all up.

UPDATE: you can find the code for this project on my Github.

After my brief but wonderful visit to Dubai, I flew to Bengalaru, India, to speak at the legendary Agile India 2018 edition. It was amazing. It was held in the beautiful Taj West End hotel, a resort in the middle of Bengalaru, historically called "the garden city." Naresh Jain, who runs the show, invited me to speak there.

I left Sydney, Australia in a rush. I went from Sydney to Singapore and then from Singapore to Dubai. The journey took the better part of a day and I landed in Dubai late in the evening on Tuesday. I'd never been to Dubai so I confess I wasn't sure what to expect. I couldn't find a clear picture of what the VISA requirements were for entering the country, either. Most websites I found said that Americans didn't need VISAs, but I couldn't readily find anything that looked like it was from the Dubai government. So, a little nervously, I arrived, queued and talked to the immigration officer. It couldn't have been easier, or more modern. There were smart, face-detecting cameras. It was as if Apple or Tesla had designed an immigration system. I talked to the officer. He didn't ask me about business or tourism. Didn't ask much of anything, really. I don't think he even asked where I was staying. It was so painless! And there I was, in this amazing country that looked like the computer-generated models of futuristic cities in science fiction movies or in advertising but that we hardly expect to experience first hand. It was awesome! What a country! It was modern, clean, bustling and shiny. And yuuuge! Words fail me when I talk about the structures. Skyscrapers everywhere! And, apparently a lot of them use the same contractor! Most of the buildings say EMAAR on them, presumably a common, very prolific developer. Whatever it was, the results spoke for themselves. It was absolutely amazing.

I woke up Wednesday the 28th of February prepared to get on a flight to Glasgow, Scotland. I was packed, ready to go. I even got out of bed, took a hasty shower, and talked to my partner Tammie about the type of plane and we talked about her plans while I was gone. I got to the breakfast bar and started eating, checking news and checking email. Several messages from my team's scheduler had come in, "Don't leave! The visit with [ridiculously large bank's name redacted] has been cancelled!" And that was that! Apparently, the UK was being deluged with a snow storm to rival all others. The airports were, as far as I know, still working, but the customer conference itself had decided to cancel the event, feeling I suspect a bit of worry that the snow would make travel an unmitigated disaster for the incoming speakers. No problem! I didn't particularly want to be in that snow storm, anyway. So I called my travel agent and we moved things around. Things would be easier now. I could stay home another day, lazing in San Francisco. Tammie and I spent the requisite few hours in my condo's jacuzzi, of course, then visited some friends and soaked in the blue skies and comfortable weather. It was a hard job but somebody had to do it.

Want to get started with Spring Framework 5's functional reactive web endpoints? Read on..

Next week I'll be speaking at the new Index conference talking about building reactive microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. I've never been to this conference but I have high hopes. It looks to be fun and I hope you'll join me there!

Next week I'll also be speaking at the 2018 edition of the epic Devnexus show in Atlanta, GA talking about testing applications (starting at individual beans in a Spring application and working [our way towards integration testing with microservices and consumer driven contract testing with Spring Cloud Contract) and then we'll look at building Kotlin-based applications in Bootiful Kotlin. Join me!