Hi, Spring fans! This week I am in delicious Philadelphia enjoying the amazing food (scrapple! TastyKakes!) and hanging out with amazing customers using VMWare and Spring to great effect. It's been a busy week since we last talked: I released a new Spring Tips installment, wrote a bunch of blogs, recorded a new podcast, and published a new podcast installment. We've got a lot to get to today so let's get to it!

• In this first installment of Spring Tips, season 7, I look at RSocket and Spring Security
• Spring Framework 5.2.4 and 5.1.14 available now
• Netflix Built a Spring Application Generator to Boost Dev Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.3.0.M2 Available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.3.0.M2 Available
• Netflix Built an Application Generator to Boost Productivity. Here's How You Can, Too.
• A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more
• You should probably check this video on how to build reliable streaming pipelines with RabbitMQ and Project Reactor
• Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) and Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2
• Our friend Toshiaki Maki has a nice demo demonstrating using JWT in Spring Security
• Matt Raible has a very interesting look at creating a Spring Boot CRUD application with Angular 9 and Spring Boot 2.2.x
• This is an oldie-but-a-goodie from the good, the great, Dr. Dave Syer: it looks at Spring Performance Gains
• VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
• Hey, the Baeldung blog has a nice enumeration of some of the design patterns in the Spring Framework
• Securing RabbitMQ with Vault
• Externalize Springdoc OpenAPI schema (write documentation outside of target classes) – Code Soapbox
• I loved Joris Kuipers talk, Day 2 Problems in CQRS and Event-Sourcing
• Deploying Cloud Foundry on a local Kubernetes - João M Pinto - Medium
• Auto scale Azure Spring Cloud with Azure Monitor and Azure Automation Runbooks - Microsoft Tech Community - 1181125
• Call for Proposals for RabbitMQ Summit 2020 open till Mar 8 - submit now!
• Integrate Java Database Versioning with Liquibase using MySQL [A Step by Step Guide] - By Tiago Melo