Happy New Year 🎉 2026 Goals and Predictions
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. I want to wish you all a happy new year. I hope for happiness, health, and success for you and your family in 2026.
My Weekly(ish) Newsletter.
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Modularizing Spring Boot, MockMvcTester vs RestTestClient and Spring Boot 4 Course Coming Soon!
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. It's hard to believe we are halfway through December and Christmas is right around the corner.
The Fundamentals of Software Engineering is now Available!
Today my new book, The Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is available to order on Amazon. Learn about who this book is for, what's inside, and how you can get it for free.
Spring Boot 4 is Here and My Trip to QCon San Francisco
Spring Boot 4 was released last week with significant improvements across developer experience, performance, and production-readiness. Plus, my recap from QCon San Francisco 2025 where I delivered two half-day workshops.
Spring AI 1.1.0 RC1, Spring Boot 4 is Almost Here and Building a GraphQL API in 20 Minutes
Spring AI 1.1.0 RC1 is available with MCP client support, Spring Boot 4 brings null safety and simplified HTTP interfaces, plus my SpringOne GraphQL talk recording.
Fundamentals of Software Engineering Podcast and Spring Boot 4 is arriving this month!
Announcing the Fundamentals of Software Engineering Podcast and diving into Spring Boot 4's exciting new features including Bean Registrar, API Versioning, and more.
Fundamentals of Software Engineering, new YouTube videos and Securing MCP Servers
Updates on the Fundamentals of Software Engineering book going to print, launching a podcast, publishing 5 YouTube videos in 5 days, and a deep dive into securing MCP servers with Spring Security.
Securing MCP Servers with Spring AI, Compacting Chat Memory Advisor and QCon San Francisco
Learn about securing MCP servers in Spring AI, building a custom compacting chat memory advisor, and Dan's upcoming workshop at QCon San Francisco on building intelligent Java applications.
After a busy end to the summer, I'm back!
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. It's been a while since I have written here but I have been a busy man lately.
From Vacation Brain to Workflow Gains: Two AI Tools Worth Your Time
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. I'm back after a nice vacation to Hilton Head with the family and feeling refreshed. I spent some time last week cleaning up Notion which is a tool that I use to track everything I do.