Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to talk about. Our own Pieter Humphrey has been tirelessly working to get the replays of the SpringOne2GX 2014 show available online and there are a slew of them this week! What a win!

• The good Dr. Syer, former lead of Spring Batch, co-lead of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Security OAuth, and a rockstar to various Spring projects including Spring itself, over the years, has kicked off a series of posts on very practical matters related to securing Angular.js applications with Spring. The first one, Spring and Angular JS: A Secure Single Page Application, introduces the basics of connecting an Angular.js-based client to a backend API. The second, The Login Page: Angular JS and Spring Security Part II, introduces the login form. Bookmark this series!
• The amazing, sleep-intolerant, Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.0. Spring Session, for those who've not been paying attention, is a drop in proxy API for the standard Servlet HTTP Session API. Install it, and then delegate HTTP session persistence to other backend implementations like Redis. This is ideal for a lot of reasons: if you are using a Java EE application server and want to scale out session replication, you can use an engine that was better designed for it. It's a safe bet that the team behind Cassandra and Redis have thought about data replication more than the team behind Glassfish, isn't it? If you're deploying your application to a PaaS like Cloud Foundry or Heroku, where session replication isn't enabled by default, then this gives you an easy way to add it, and to do so in a manner that's consistant from one environment to another.
• I put together a blog on how Spring supports 12-Factor application style configuration
• Our pal Nicolas Frankel is at it again, this time with a nice post on using Spring's profiles and Maven's profiles
• Spring Boot 1.2.1, mostly a maintenance release, has just been released
• Check out this SpringOne2GX 2014 replay of Janne Valkealahti's talk, Painless Build and Deploy for YARN Applications with Spring
• Check out Groovy ninja Cedric Champeau's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk, Android and Groovy: a Winning Pair. This talk is hot off the heels of his announcement of support for Groovy on Android, immediately after Apple announced Swift - a Groovy-like language for iOS. Naturally, it gained a lot of interest, and this talk fills in the gaps. Check it out!
• Jeff Beck's talk, Experiences using Grails in A Microservice Architecture, is now available. It's a worthy watch for insight into pain-points in making the move to micorservices.
• Longtime readers of this roundup will no doubt remember my former teammate Peter Ledbrook. I serve as the Spring Developer Advocate, and he served as the Grails Developer Advocate, and taught me a whole world of things. I mention that all to say that if you want to learn from one of the best, you should check out his talks, including this one, How to get Groovy with Java 8, from SpringOne2GX 2014.
• Speaking of Peter, he also wrote this amazing post on Groovy & Java 8.
• Check out Brian Clozel's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on the guts of the open-source Spring IO reference application and website
• ETrade's Durai Arasan and Monish Unni gave a nice talk on building REST services with Spring Integration and Node.js.
• Speaking of our pal Nicolas Frankel, check out his book,Integration Testing from Trenches, which has a large section on Spring