Thomas Vitale ☀️
@thomasvitale.com
Software Engineer 📚 Author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action” 🛳️ CNCF Ambassador ☕️ Java Champion 🍃 Creator of @arconia.io for Spring Boot 🎙️ International Speaker 👨💻 OSS. Work with Java and Cloud Native.
"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.independent.co.uk/tech/ford-ai...
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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We’re at a point where there are more packaging formats for agent skills/prompts/MCP than JavaScript frameworks.
Last spring, I had the privilege to present with my friend @whitneylee.com at Cloud Native Day Europe 2026 in the context of #KubeCon. We talked about "Rollout on Reception: Progressive Delivery for GenAI Apps Using Real-Time User Feedback". www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRcY...
Rollout on Reception: Progressive Delivery for GenAI Apps Using Real... Thomas Vitale & Whitney Lee
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Yup! It's official. Spring Cloud Contract is becoming stubborn.sh
Spencer Gibb@spencer.gibb.us · last mo.Today, we are announcing a transition for Spring Cloud Contract. All maintenance, support, and ownership of the project will be officially transferred to one of its original creators, Marcin Grzejszczak @toomuchcoding.com, under Stubborn.sh spring.io/blog/2026/07...
Meet the brilliant minds 🧠 in the JVM track! 🔷 Alina Yurenko 🔷 Andrew Lombardi 🔷 Cay Horstmann 🔷 Christian Woerz 🔷 Jens Knipper 🔷 Mohamed Ait Abderrahman 🔷 Nicolai Parlog 🔷 Sandra Ahlgrimm 🔷 Sébastien Deleuze 🔷 Thomas Vitale ☀️ 🔷 Willem Jan Glerum 👉 https://oredev.org/line-up?tags=JVM
The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.
LF AI & Data Foundation recently launched the DocLang Working Group, founded by the Linux Foundation, IBM, Red Hat and ABBYY, to develop and maintain a specification that supports more reliable, interoperable document processing across AI and agentic workflows. Get involved: https://doclang.ai/
Introducing @modelplaneai.bsky.social: the open source control plane for AI inference. Built on Crossplane, it operates your GPU fleet as a unified inference platform. Any model, any engine, any infra. In Early Development. We’re building in the open. Join us → modelplane.ai
Modelplane · The open source control plane for AI inference
Modelplane is the open source control plane for AI models. Deploy any model on any GPU infrastructure you own (cloud, neocloud, or on-premise) and let the control plane operate it continuously.
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Hey @vivaldi.com, would it be possible to add @qwant.bsky.social as a built-in search engine option in your desktop browser? The mobile version of Vivaldi supports Qwant already, but not the desktop version. Thanks!
Spring AI 2.0 is now available 🚀 it supports both Spring Boot 4.0 and 4.1. I worked on automated OpenRewrite recipes to upgrade your applications to the new version, taking care of many breaking changes introduced in this new major. All free and open source. docs.arconia.io/arconia-migr...
Spring Boot 4.1 has been released yesterday 🚀 and Spring Boot 3.5 has received its final patch. From this month, it's officially out of OSS support. I've implemented OpenRewrite recipes to automate most of the migration process. All free and open source. docs.arconia.io/arconia-migr...
I'm looking forward to attending the @oredev.org conference for the first time and presenting about Java and AI! You can expect: 💻 live coding 🤖 live inference 🎹 live music oredev.org/program/86c8...
Arconia is an open-source, modular toolkit for extending Spring Boot. Dev services, observability, multitenancy, generative AI, cloud native tooling. Pick what you need. Get a great developer experience. arconia.io
Arconia for Spring Boot: DevEx, GenAI, Cloud Native
Arconia is an open-source, modular toolkit for Spring Boot. Dev services, observability, GenAI, and cloud native tooling for a great developer experience.
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At Spring I/O, I shared the main features of Arconia, modular extension to Spring Boot including profiles for dev/test, Dev Services for zero-code and zero-config integrations, full OpenTelemetry support, Docling for document processing, OpenRewrite recipes, and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYBF...
Arconia for Spring Boot: Dev Services, Automated Migrations, and Seamless Workflows by Thomas Vitale
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Using Spring Cloud AWS to integrate your Java apps with S3, DynamoDB, SQS? In this article, I show how to improve the workflows for local development and testing using Floci, an open-source AWS emulator by @hectorvent.bsky.social, and @arconia.io Dev Services. www.thomasvitale.com/spring-cloud...
Local Development with Spring Cloud AWS, Floci, and Arconia Dev Services
Run Spring Cloud AWS applications locally with Floci and Arconia Dev Services: a single dependency, fully open-source, no LocalStack token.
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If you have an exceptionally strong, automated CI pipeline with TDD and great test coverage, why are we still relying on asynchronous, manual gatekeeping instead of practising true continuous integration directly on the trunk? 🤔
Spring Boot 3.5 will go out of OSS support in a few days. Have you already upgraded to 4.0? I've implemented OpenRewrite recipes to automate most of the migration process. All free and open source. You can run them with the Arconia CLI or use the OpenRewrite Gradle/Mavens plugin.
If you don’t use @graalvm.org because of “slow build times” but you use GenAI, I’ve got bad news for you: Letting a GenAI agent build a standard Java application takes far longer than it takes me to build a native executable with GraalVM. Should we add elevator music to the agent?
It was really exciting to officially introduce Arconia at Spring I/O last month. Open-source extension improving the developer experience on Spring Boot. I talked about dev services, observability, automated migrations, agent skills, and a sneak peek at the upcoming dev UI. @arconia.io
Spring I/O@springio.net · 3mo ago🍃 Arconia for Spring Boot: Dev Services, Automated Migrations, and Seamless Workflows by @thomasvitale.com @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/UYBFbBfgYoE 🔗 Slides: speakerdeck.com/thomasvitale... #springio26
In this new article, I explain how to integrate your Spring AI application with LangSmith for observability, supported by @opentelemetry.io and @arconia.io. www.thomasvitale.com/spring-ai-ob...
Spring AI Observability with LangSmith and Arconia
Integrate a Spring AI application with LangSmith for dedicated AI observability, using OpenTelemetry and Arconia.
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Observability is a key property of any production-grade application. Even more so for AI-infused apps. In this article, I show how to integrate Spring AI with OpenLit, an open-source AI observability platform, relying on @opentelemetry.io and @arconia.io. www.thomasvitale.com/spring-ai-ob... #java
A brand new version of @arconia.io is now available 🚀 It provides Spring AI Observability support for @opentelemetry.io, OpenLLMetry/Traceloop (thanks @salaboy.com for contributing this feature), OpenLit, LangSmith, and @arize-phoenix.bsky.social. More info: docs.arconia.io/arconia/late...
I can see the appeal of using tools like Stainless to autogenerate an SDK in any language. However, producing a 31MB JAR file for a Java SDK just to call an HTTP service feels a bit excessive to me. That’s without even considering the forced Kotlin transitive dependencies, though I have a Java app!
Alina Yurenko on stage at #springio talking about Spring Native: The Future of Fast and Efficient Spring Applications @alina-yurenko.bsky.social @springio.net
Now on stage @glycin.bsky.social with a brilliant presentation about how he used Spring Boot to build videogames 🤩 #springio @springio.net
Watching @thomasvitale.com explain his Arconia framework for @spring.io development: very cool, will definitely give this a try. Community hero! 🦸♂️ #springio26
The day is here! Today, I'm presenting about my project Arconia and showing how it can improve your Java and Spring Boot developer experience: bootstrap new projects, manage agent skills, leverage dev services, automate migrations, and more! See you at @springio.net! @arconia.io #springio
