Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Today, I spoke at the San Francisco JUG to a packed room and now I'm off to St. Louis for a day of customer meetings. Lots of great stuff to look at as we kick off the new year so let's get to it!

• Check out Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan's post on the latest-and-greatest on Spring Integration including the debut of a new Spring Integration extension supporting zipping and unzipping of messages in flight.
• the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine published a post on its site about.. the site! Which is all Spring Boot. Check it out.
• Check out the replay of Andy Wilkinson's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on documenting REST APIs with Spring REST Docs
• Check out the replay of Fatima Casau's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on using Spring Boot and Groovy
• Marius Bogoevici's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on stream processing at scale with Spring XD and Apache Kafka is also now available
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch's SpringOne2GX 2015 talk on securing REST services with Spring is also available online
• Spring framework legend and lead Juergen Hoeller chimed in to talk about some great Java conferences of interest in the next few months
• Check out Dr. David Syer's definitive guide to using Spring Security OAuth and Spring Boot
• and then follow it up with Malike's post on using Spring Security OAuth and MongoDB to secure applications
• I'm pretty sure I posted these before, but they're worth reiteration: how Amazon uses Microservices and the Pain, Power, and Patterns of Microservices
• Red Hat's Christian Posta just published a blog that talks about a potential 25x performance increase for certain use cases with ActiveMQ - definitely worth a read!