Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, then let me wish you a happy 4th of July! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.2. This new version improves compatibility with Spring Boot 1.5.4 which in turn brought in a new version of Spring Data.
• The Spring Framework Guru web portal has an interesting look at what's new in Spring Framework 5! Check it out!
• I liked this post on Bozho's Tech Blog on setting up the epic Spring Boot Admin for monolithic applications, eschewing some of the more common, albeit more complex, setups.
• our friend Petri Kainulainen is back at it again this time with a new newsletter that looks to capture discussions of testing in Java. This seems like a no-brainer thing to follow for interesting content! Nice job, as usual, Petri!
• I love this nicely illustrated look at what constitutes a Spring bean.
• Baeldung has a nice Spring Cloud tutorial that's worth checking out.
• I was very honored to be nominated as one of the top java influencers by JAX 2017 along with Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke. This is an honor. Thank you. :)
• don't miss reactive web ninja Arjen Poutsma's talk introducing functional reactive Spring!
• Speaking of reactive, this upcoming webinar on reactive Spring Data Couchbase looks promising! - check it out!
• I liked this demo of a (reactive) Spring WebFlux application that connects to Twitter's streaming API