Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1
• Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful, expressive, and convenient developer experience! Way to go!
• Check out this short-and-sweet article on DZone to learn about Spring Boot's auto-configuration mechanism
• The Spring framework Guru is back with a video tutorial on using Thymeleaf to create an index page
• Check out our own mad-scientist Andy Clement's video introducing Flo, a UI for batch job orchestration on Spring XD!
• The CoffeaElectronica blog has a post on using and extending the Spring Boot Remote Shell
• Check out Adib Saikali's epic InfoQ article on using Spring Session http://www.infoq.com/articles/Next-Generation-Session-Management-with-Spring-Session
• our pal Ryan Baxter has posted another installment in his series on building cloud-native apps with Spring Boot
• This isn't strictly Spring related, but interesting: Matt Raible's post on InfoQ looks at Google's much faster mirror of Maven Central
• Also, Atlassian has a nice ad-article on continuous-integration as the basis of continuous delivery, which is a very powerful thing to grok. This was a nice short primer so I figured I'd pass it on