Microsoft Partners with Pivotal for Managed Spring Boot Azure Service

Microsoft has teamed up with Pivotal Software to launch a private preview of Azure Spring Cloud, seeking to ease the development of Java-based cloud microservices. The idea is to help developers focus on building scalable microservices rather than more mundane tasks like configuring infrastructure.T he service is currently available as a private preview (sign-up here), but is scheduled to become a public preview "before the end of the calendar year," according to Microsoft's announcement. Spring Boot is an extension of the Spring Framework for Java developers. Spring Boot eases matters for Spring developers by automatically configuring certain Spring functionality within code (see this Baeldung overview article for nuances).