Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I'll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg and then it's off to to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

LTR: Confluent co-founder Jay Kreps, Tim Berglund, me and Pivotal SVP James Watters

And without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
• Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
• Last week on A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast) I talked to Josh Mckenty about data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
• If you get one blog to read, read this one on the Reactor Debugging Experience. It's amazing!
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
• Want to know what makes Pivotal Cloud Foundry the best place to run Spring Boot applications?
• Focus on Integration Tests Instead of Mock-Based Tests
• A gentle reminder that you should be upgrading to Spring Framework 5.1x as soon as possible
• Sara Torrey diagrammed her notes introducing Spring Boot and they're really cool!
• Check out Pivotal's Ben Hale on the state of Reactive Programming in the enterprise, RSocket and R2DBC on the latest OffHeap podcast episode
• Missed this white-hot Spring Tip introducing ways to make Spring Boot lazy and fast? Now's the time to watch! It's not even ten minute's long!
• We're conducting a survey that looks at how we can improve the Spring Initializr (start dot Spring dot io), a topic near and dear to my heart. Please feedback here