Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to dive into so let's get goin'!

• A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra
• Accelerate Spring Apps to Cloud at Scale - Discussion with Azure Spring Cloud Customers
• Spring Authorization Server 0.2.1 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Function 3.2 is out!
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0 is out!
• Spring Tips: @Controllers and RSocket
• JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• Living with Kubernetes: 12 Commands to Debug Your Workloads
• Hmm. I wonder what Mark Paluch's cooking something awesome with the R2DBC SPI. I wonder what...?
• Nice job, Github Actions! There's now integrated sigstore support! …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra.

• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 1
• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 2
• We Pushed Helm to the Limit, then Built a Kubernetes Operator
• A Case for Databases on Kubernetes from a Former Skeptic

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive), we continue our tour of all things @Controller, this time focusing on the Spring support for RSocket. You might also want to watch the expanded discussion of RSocket in earlier Spring Tips videos:

1. The RSocket Revolution - watch this next!
2. Raw RSocket support
3. RSocket Messaging and the @Controller component model
4. RSocket and Spring Security
5. Spring Retrosocket

Hi, Spring fans! I love the Azure Spring Cloud platform - jointly developed with the Spring team and Microsoft - and I'm not alone! So do its users! Check out this panel discussion moderated by Adib Sakali and Asir Selvasingh with Morgan Stanley, Bosch, and Digital Realty Trust.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week's been nutty! Here in the US, we just celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, and I am fat with turkey and pie, and lazy. But happy. I hope you're well fed and happy, too. Time's flying. (Also: can you believe we're a month away from the new year? I think there's like four or five weeks (and thus _This Week in Spring_s!) left in the year!)

We've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's go:

• Security Report for Spring AMQP (Spring for RabbitMQ)
• Spring Boot 2.6.1 is now available
• Spring Data MongoDB - Relation Modelling
• Thymeleaf 3.0.13 now available! This new version includes security improvements, make sure to check the release notes
• In last week's installmetn of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked about reactive-systems with functional programming legend Debasish Ghosh
• The Apache Cassandra project is working hard to officially support JDK 17 in the next Apache Cassandra major release.
• I love to see how far the JVM has come. One great indicator of its progress: its garbage collector. Check out this post on …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to functional programming- and reactive systems-legend Debasish Ghosh (@debasishg). And Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the US, where I live. it's a time during which we Americans try to be thankful for what we have. And me, personally? I've got a lot of things for which I am grateful, this week and always.

I am thankful for my family and friends. A person is the company they keep, and I am lucky to have excellent company in my life.

I am thankful for my health. Right now, pandemic be danged, I'm healthy and happy, something for…

Hi, Spring fans! It's Friday, and you know what that means? Some poor schlub somewhere is trying fruitlessly to get something deployed to production, or at least rolled back consistently, in time for dinner. And it's not working. I've been there. Deployments are hard. There's nuance in deployment. I love Kubernetes as much as the next Operator, but let's not pretend it's the pinnacle of productivity. Quite the contrary. There's a whole cottage industry around simplifying application deployments with Kubernetes. See for example KNative, Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes, or Azure Spring Cloud…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week - a week before Thanksgiving here in the US - Josh Long (@starbuxman) wants you to know he and the Spring team are_thankful_ for you, and then he talks to newly minted Java Champion and Java ecosystem legend Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91) about Kubernetes and Apache Kafka.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to resume our series on Spring's @Controller annotation, this time diving into Spring's WebSocket support.

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