Hi Spring fans! Can you believe it? We're already almost halfway through June! Summer's nearly here! It's 97 Fahrenheit / 37 Celsius in San Francisco! That's nuts! I'm glad I'm in beautiful Amsterdam and Eindhoven, NL, beating the heat, though. What a privilege. We've got a busy week, as always, to get to so let's get to it!

• The Spring team has undertaken a massive effort to eliminate insecure HTTP URLs in favor of HTTPS. Learn how we did it (and you could too) in this blog Announcing nohttp
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb on Microservices, Brazil, and more
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips: Organizational Consistency in your Spring Boot Applications I introduced things you can do to achieve consistency in your applications including auto-configuration, building starter-dependencies, the Spring JavaFormat Maven plugin and more.
• React-ing to start.spring.io User feedback updates
• Kotlin Microservice With Spring Boot Tutorial
• I dig this article on how to bootstrap a Spring Boot application with Maven
• An oldie-but-a-goodie: Spring Boot: A Work of Art
• This is sort of awesome. Remember ZK? You can use with Spring Boot! Learn how in this "Using ZK With Spring Boot"
• I love this nice post on how the Alibaba team lwered latency for Apache RocketMQ. Also of note: there's a super-slick integration for Apache RocketMQ in Spring Cloud Alibaba. Check it out!
• Do not miss this replay of Olga Maciaszek and Marcin Grzejszczak's Spring I/O talk, How to live in a post Spring Cloud Netflix world