Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week's already off to a crazy start. Sunday evening I returned from Kiev, Ukraine, where I spoke at JEEConf. Yesterday, Monday, I gave a talk with my friend Baruch from JFrog at yesterday's JFrog Swampup conference event in Napa, California. Today I'm off to Denver, Colorado for Gluecon, and then off to GOTO Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and I'll finish out the week in Washington DC for customer visits. I can't wait to see you all along the way!

• I hope you'll register for this upcoming webinar on distributed tracing with the Spring Cloud team's very own Adrian Cole and Marcin Grzejszczak
• Wow! Spring Roo 2.0M2 is packed with lots of cool looking features supporting Spring Boot and removing the older ActiveRecord-style support in favor of proper Spring Data repositories
• I really liked Stormpath founder and CTO Les Hazlewood's post on how they moved their entire backend API to Spring Boot in a matter of three weeks while embracing Spring Boot's autoconfiguration to solve a few problems of their own, like a Samza auto-configuration.
• the Udemy Spring Cloud workshop online looks pretty cool!
• Hey, this looks interesting: a framework to use Spring Boot to build Atlassian Connect modules
• this is a cool (Portugues language) post on externalizing configuration with Spring Cloud Config
• I dig Dr. Xinyu Liu's post on how to build lightning fast NoSQL solutions with Spring Data Redis
• Did you miss Spring I/O in sunny Barcelona, Spain? The replays will be online shortly but in the meantime, check out the slides to Spring Cloud Stream-lead Marius Bogoevici's talk on streaming- and event-driven microservices
• I dig this Chinese-language translation of our own Paul Chapman's post on building microservices with Spring Cloud
• Interesting (I'm pretty sure, at least!) Japanese-language post on Spring Data DynamoDB
• this looks to be a nice Japanese-language slidedeck on using Spring Boot for application infrastructure