Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in San Francisco, CA; Columbus, OH (for the epic SpringOne Tour stop there), and then it's off to Tel Aviv, Israel for customer visits and an appearance at the Israel JUG. If you're around, then I'd love to connect!

Anyway, and as always, we've got tons to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Finchley.SR3 Now Available
• Out of the Box Application Observability with Spring Boot & Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Pivotal
• The CIO's guide to Kubernetes
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Skipper 2.0 RC1 Released
• Spring Tools 4.1.2 released
• Last week in A Bootiful Podcast, I had the privilege of interviewing Sree Tummidi, Senior Product Manager for Security at Pivotal
• CVE-2019-3778: Spring Security OAuth 2.3.5, 2.2.4, 2.1.4, 2.0.17 Released
• Check out the latest-and-greatest in my second favorite place on the internet, start.Spring.io: What's new with Spring Initializr
• Last week was the recap post for season 5 of Spring Tips where we look at all the episodes from the last season. Spring Tips: Season 5 Recap I'm already hard at work on season 6, of course, so stay tuned. If you get through the Season 5 episodes, then you might go back and watch the older ones.
• Check out part two of this Flowable BMPN system webinar series where they use serverless functions. Spoiler: they're building a process as a service function using Spring Fu and GraalVM that boots up in 13ms!
• Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1
• RSocket: Reactive Streaming Service Networking with Ryland Degnan - Software Engineering Daily
• The Okta blog is killing it! Check out this latest post on OAuth 2.0 device flow and social login for Spring Boot (using reactive Spring, MongoDB, and so much more)
• Another great post on the Okta blog, this one i18n ("internationalization") in Java 11, Spring Boot, and JavaScript
• Netifi have put together a collection of YouTube videos related to RSocket with speakers from Pivotal, Facebook and Netifi
• This isn't strictly speaking related to Spring, but it's interesting: SalesForce's jProtoc 0.9.0 is out! It's a Java protofuf compiler.
• I love watching the cool things that Thomas Darimont gets up to. This time he's put together a nice demo on using Spring Security, SAML, Spring Boot and IBM/RedHat/JBoss KeyCloak
• This post is nuts! It's how we got JNI cross-compilation with Docker to work in order to create a Java agent to aid developers using Reactor
• Have you seen BlockHound 1.0.0.M1? It's a plugin that detects blocked threads in your reactive code.
• I love this podcast interview with Michael Cote and Paul Czarkowski on running Spring Boot apps on Kubernetes and more.
• Sébastien Deleuze has some good news to share: it seems next milestone of Spring Data R2DBC will have Kotlin Coroutines support!
• A nice post on Mkyong on JUnit 5 and Spring Boot and Mockito
• The 2.1.0.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Contract (Greenwich.RELEASE release train) supports binary payloads. Here you can find a commit that adds a sample of how you can use it
• Yet another nice post on the Okta blog, this one on adding social login to Your JHipster App