Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the lovely QCon Rio conference, and then I'm off to Tokyo, Japan for a Spring in Summer conference for local Spring users!

The team is abuzz with excitement leading up to this year's SpringOne2GX 2016, the biggest and best SpringOne2GX, ever! This year, you're going to see us do WAY more with WAY less and get it to production, to boot! This is exciting for everyone of us and it will be for audience members, as well!

• our pal Kenny Bastani put together a followup post in his series on Spring Cloud about polyglot persistence with Spring Cloud
• Spring for Hadoop lead Thomas Risberg just announced 2.3M2, complete with support for running batch tasklets, improved Spring Boot integration, and improved YARN support
• Singaporean Guest bloggers Han Lim and Tony Nguyen have written up a very cool blog on migrating from .jsp-based applications to Angular.js
• John Thompson has a nice post on using Spring Boot with ActiveMQ over on DZone
• Saravanan Subramanian has a nice post on getting started with RabbitMQ
• Kathy Thomas has a written up and shared a presentation on building a custom PaaS with SUSE OpenStack and Stackato Cloud Foundry
• Our pal Nicolas Frankel has a nice post on introducting more devops-friendly features with Spring Boot
• I liked this blog on using Spring Data Cassandra
• This is a good French language post on using Spring Batch to run jobs, in lieu of CRON
• Neo4j have just announced Spring Data Neo4j 4.0.0.RC2 is available
• Make sure you didn't miss the latest installment of Cloud Foundry After Dark!