Spring Office Hours

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Kansas City JUG organizer and Java Developer Advocate, Billy Korando. In this episode, we celebrate the release of Java 27. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.
Show Notes:
JDK 27 - general availability September 15, 2026, with all nine JEPs
Java 27 Launch Stream - the Java channel's launch-day replay, with Billy's JFR demo and his interview with Roman Kennke
JEP 534: Compact Object Headers by Default - 10 to 20 percent less heap for most workloads, now on by default
JEP 523: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector in All Environments - no more silent fallback to Serial GC in small containers
JEP 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview) - the last piece of Project Loom, aiming for final in JDK 28
JEP 531: Lazy Constants (Third Preview) - set once, later than final allows, with JIT optimizations to match
JEP 536: JFR In-Process Data Redaction - keeps API keys and passwords out of flight recordings before you hand them to a human or an agent
Transitioning Java to more frequent security updates - Oracle's plan to move Java security patches from quarterly to monthly, updated September 10, 2026
Project Babylon - code reflection and GPU programming from Java, DaShaun's pick for what to try next
S5E22 - Live from KCDC - last week's episode, recorded at the conference Billy helps organize
Billy Korando on LinkedIn - where Billy says to find him
Resources:
springofficehours.io - episodes, schedule, community
Spring Developer on YouTube - join us live every Monday
Dan Vega
DaShaun Carter
The Spring Blog - the news we cover each week

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun broadcast live from the Kansas City Developer Conference, one of the largest community driven developer events in the country. Expect conference highlights, hallway track conversations with speakers and attendees, and the latest news from the Spring and Java worlds. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.
Show Notes: 
Craig Walls, Spring AI Recipes index
habuma/spring-ai-recipes on GitHub
Spring AI Recipe: Running Against Local LLMs (Medium)
JDK 27 project page
KCDC
Spring AI Community on GitHub
Fundamentals of Software Engineering, danvega.dev

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by returning guest Felipe Gutierrez, co-author with DaShaun of the new book "Pro Spring Boot 4: An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices" from Apress. Felipe and DaShaun discuss what it was like writing the book together and what readers can expect, including Spring Boot 4, Spring Security, GraalVM native compilation, AOT, Testcontainers, and building intelligent applications with Spring AI. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.
Show Notes:
Pro Spring Boot 4 (Apress)
Pro Spring Boot 4 on Amazon
pro-spring-boot-4 — the book's code examples
Commit Your Code — Sept 2–4, Plano TX
KCDC — Sept 9–11, Kansas City

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Danny Thompson, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, co-host of The Programming Podcast, and founder of The Commit Your Code Conference. Danny is also a co-author of the new No Starch Press book "The Developer's Guide to AI: A Field Guide for the Working Developer." We will talk about his path from a decade in gas stations to a career in software, what it takes to run a conference that donates 100% of ticket revenue to charity, and how working developers can build real AI systems without a data science degree. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.
Show Notes:
The Developer's Guide to AI
Commit Your Code 2026
The Programming Podcast
Atlassian Forge
Danny Thompson

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun will discuss some of the new features around Docker, Testcontainers and the Spring Boot plugin.You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.

Show Notes:
The Java Documentary
Inside Java Podcast 63: Spring AI with Dan Vega
Clone. Run. Done: Dan's YouTube Video
Spring Boot Docker Compose Support
Paketo Buildpacks
Show Resources:
springofficehours.io - episodes, schedule, community
Spring Developer on YouTube - join us live every Monday
Dan Vega
DaShaun Carter
The Spring Blog - the news we cover each week