Spring Office Hours

Join us with Guillaume Laforge, co-founder of the Apache Groovy programming language and Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. We'll explore Guillaume's journey from creating one of the JVM's most popular dynamic languages to his current work at Google focusing on serverless technologies and generative AI with Gemini. Guillaume will share insights on Groovy's evolution and continued releva...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they welcome special guests, Spring Team Member Glenn Renfro. In this episode, we'll continue to look forward to SpringOne. Tune in live to ask your questions or catch the replay later on your favorite podcast platform.

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for another exciting preview of SpringOne! This week, we're joined by our special guest, fellow Spring Developer Advocate, Josh Long. This year's event promises to be bootiful. Josh will help us deliver another sneak peek into the most anticipated announcements, including the future of Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4. We'll also dive into the latest on Spring...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter broadcasting live from the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC)! In this special episode, the hosts share highlights from the conference and discuss Dan's sessions on MCP and Spring Boot 3. They dive into the exciting news of Spring Boot 4 M1 and Spring Framework 7 M8 releases, exploring what's new and what developers can expect. The team also answers live quest...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun preview the upcoming VMware Explore / SpringOne conference, sharing insights into what attendees can expect from this premier Spring community event. The hosts discuss their upcoming conference sessions, highlight key presentations and workshops worth attending, and provide tips for...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for a special community-focused episode of Spring Office Hours. In this hodgepodge session, the hosts dive into listener questions covering various Spring ecosystem topics. From troubleshooting common Spring Boot challenges to exploring emerging patterns and best practices, Dan and DaShaun provide practical insights and solutions. This interactive episode showcases...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Redis Developer Advocate, Raphael De Lio. Join us as we explore Redis’s ever-growing role in the Spring ecosystem.  We will look discuss its common and foundational use cases, then dig into new and exciting use cases, including similarity search, the cutting-edge vector...

Join Dan Vega for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this special episode, Dan is joined by Spring expert and author Craig Walls for an exciting AI show and tell segment, where they demonstrate and discuss their favorite AI tools currently transforming their development workflows. Following the show and tell, Craig shares insights from his upcoming Manning book "Spring AI in Action,"...

Join Dan Vega with special guest Dan Dobrin, App Architect at Google, as they explore enterprise-ready Spring AI development using Google Gemini models. This episode covers the latest Spring AI features, caching strategies, unified SDK capabilities, and AI agents—moving beyond simple demos to real-world production implementations. Learn how to build fast, enterprise-grade AI applications with Spri...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Spring team member Dave Syer to explore the official Spring gRPC project. At the end of this episode, you will understand how Spring gRPC provides a Spring-friendly API for developing high-performance gRPC applications, including server and client autoconfiguration, Spr...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they welcome Taylor Desseyn, VP of Global Community at **torc.dev ** and founder of Dads in Tech. Fresh from his presentation "Exposing the Interview Process" at Spring I/O 2025 in Barcelona, Taylor shares unfiltered insights from interviewing thousands of engineers and helping hundreds of companies scale their engineering teams. The hosts dive deep into the cur...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they celebrate a major milestone in the Spring ecosystem with the general availability release of Spring AI 1.0. In this episode, the hosts welcome Spring AI team members Mark Pollak and Christian Tzolov to discuss the incredible journey from conception to GA release. They'll explore the powerful features that make Spring AI the go-to framework for building AI-p...

Spring Boot 3.5 is here—and we're throwing a release party to celebrate! Join us for a special edition of Spring Office Hours as we welcome Phil Webb, co-creator of Spring Boot, to walk us through what’s new, what’s exciting, and what it all means for developers. From enhanced observability, configuration improvements, and new dependency upgrades, this release is packed with power. We’ll discuss k...

Join Dan Vega as he welcomes Sergi Almar, founder and organizer of Spring I/O, one of the biggest Spring conferences in the world. In this special episode, Dan and Sergi dive into what attendees can expect at Spring I/O 2025 in Barcelona. Sergi reveals the behind-the-scenes process of how he and his team plan and run this massive developer event year after year. Learn about emerging trends in Spri...

Get ready for the latest news about Spring Cloud with our guests, Ryan Baxter and Spencer Gibb! In this episode, they'll discuss all things new and exciting in Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-RC1. Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they talk Spring Cloud. Service discovery, configuration management, circuit breaking, API Gateways and more. Learn how to leverage Spring Cloud to architect robust distributed...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, they welcome Eddú Meléndez, who works on Testcontainers at Docker following the company's acquisition of the project. The trio explores the recently released Docker Model Runner in Docker Desktop 4.40.0, which provides a local Inference API compatible with the OpenAI API and integrates seamlessly wi...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they welcome James Ward, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS. This episode explores James' career journey, his podcast work, and his expertise in Java development. The conversation dives into Amazon's Nova model and James' recent article on Model Context Protocol (MCP). Learn about building AI agents with Spring AI and discover how Spring developers can implemen...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a groundbreaking standard for AI model interactions. In this episode, the hosts demystify MCP and its significance for Java developers, diving into the official Java SDK donated by the Spring team. Learn how this protocol enhances AI integration in your applications and discover practical implementation strategies u...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun welcome back Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando from Oracle to discuss the newly released JDK 24. They explore key features including unpinned synchronized virtual threads and stream gatherers, share insights from Java One 2025, and explain how to test early access releases. Learn...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Cora Iberkleid, Developer Advocate at Broadcom, to explore Spring Modulith and why you might want to implement it in your next project. Discover how Spring Modulith helps manage application complexity through modularization while maintaining the benefits of a monolithic...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for an insightful discussion with Sharat Chander, Senior Director of Java Product Management & Developer Relations at Oracle. With JavaOne 2025 on the horizon and Java's 30th anniversary approaching, Sharat shares his vision for Java's future and reflects on his two-decade journey in shaping the Java community. From his pivotal role in JavaOne to leading develo...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for their weekly dive into the Spring ecosystem. This episode features the latest Spring news, community updates, and a live Q&A session where the hosts address your burning questions about Spring development. Whether you're new to Spring or an experienced developer, tune in for insights and practical tips from the Spring community. Show Notes: Spring Release C...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they explore Java development outside the Spring ecosystem. In this insightful episode, they'll demonstrate what Spring Boot provides out of the box and how these features compare to traditional Java development approaches. From project initialization and dependency management to database connectivity and AI integration, discover how Spring's conventions and sta...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for an essential episode on Spring Security best practices. They welcome Steve Riesenberg from the Spring Security team, who brings his extensive expertise in OAuth and Spring Authorization Server. Steve shares practical recipes for solving common security challenges, offering invaluable insights for securing your Spring applications. Whether you're implementing OA...

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the exciting Season 4 premiere of Spring Office Hours! In this special episode, your favorite Spring experts share their technology predictions for 2025, discuss anticipated developments in the Spring ecosystem, and explore upcoming trends in Java, cloud-native development, and AI integration. Start your year with insights into what's next for Spring and connec...