The SpringOne virtual conference has come and gone this year (earlier in September I think) and I’m finally coming around to watching some of the talks there that look interesting to me. Spring security, observability and boot are high up there for me these days.

  • Juergen Talks About Spring6: Currently slated for October 2022 so not that imminent but they’ll be focusing on observability and an upgrade to jakarta ee 9 namespacing for the servlet api (Thanks for that Oracle! We love you.) among other things.
  • Debugging complex issues in tomcat: Great talk by a long time tomcat core committer about how to think about debugging complex issues which he defines as: hard to reproduce, needs lots of load or specific load, or a high degree of concurrency. He goes through a few different recent tomcat bugs and his process to investigate.
  • Test-Driven Security: Loved this talk about testing api endpoints protected by spring-security using junit and mockmvc and other spring security helpers. Really great stuff here. Doesn’t look terribly hard to get into either …