Devnexus 2026 - Spring Cloud Supercharged for Production Ready Apps - Ryan Baxter & Chris Sterling

This talk explores the open-source components of Spring Cloud and their role in building cloud-native applications, highlighting essential features such as service discovery, configuration management, API routing, and data pipelines. The speaker discusses the additional efforts required to run these components in production environments, particularly concerning security, resiliency, and operational management. By examining offerings available on the VMware Tanzu Platform, the session introduces solutions that enhance Spring Cloud capabilities with production-ready features, including integrated OAuth2/JWT security and visual pipeline management. Through practical, code-focused examples, the speaker compares open-source and platform-supported approaches, guiding developers on how to effectively utilize Spring Cloud to create secure and scalable applications.