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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.
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 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 is available with MCP client support, Spring Boot 4 brings null safety and simplified HTTP interfaces, plus my SpringOne GraphQL talk recording.
Announcing the Fundamentals of Software Engineering Podcast and diving into Spring Boot 4's exciting new features including Bean Registrar, API Versioning, and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the newsletter. It feels like yesterday that we entered the month of June and just like that June is almost over. We are full swing into summer and I'm loving every single part of it.