This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover and I've got a plane to catch so let's go!
- What's that over on Spring Initializr? It's JobRunr, that's what! My favorite distributed job execution engine has (finally!) landed on my second favorite place on the web (after production!): start.spring.io. Welcome, JobRunr!
- I love Craig Walls' recent post on using more than one LLM with Spring AI
- Nice article on using Spring for Apache Kafka with Kafka Streams' dead-letter queues
- I really liked this talk from Moritz Halbritter, on the Spring Boot team, exploring how Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 help identify and eliminate
nullpointers - The Spring Cloud Contract has been an important tool for developers to ensure their services match a particular contract, and it's now transitioning to a new home at Stubborn.sh
- In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Framework and Spring AI contributor Sebastien Deleuze
- Nice tutorial on the MCP annotations in Spring AI
- I love this post introducing Spring AI
- I love, as always, when vendors focus on their project or product in terms of how it can help the Spring community. Confluent, the fine folks behind Apache Kafka, are a great example of this
- A nice video on type-safe property paths in Spring Data