Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing all right, all things considered! I miss you all.

OK, so, first things first: we're kicking off #TanzuTuesday today. Join us TODAY at 1pm PST/PDT and I'll introduce you to the wide world of Reactive Spring!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda - yes, that Joe Beda! Do not miss this!
• Spring Data for Apache Solr Discontinued
• Getting Started With RSocket: Spring Boot Channels
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M4 available now
• Spring Security 5.3.1, 5.2.3, 5.1.9, 5.0.15, 4.2.15 Released
• In last week's Spring Tips, I look at manipulating the Cloud Foundry PaaS with the Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Java Client Autoconfiguration
• Anyone interested in Spring Cloud Config with Microprofile? Vote on this issue
• Check out this blog on the future of Spring Data for Solr: it's looking for maintenance by the community
• KSQL (which you can use with Apache Kafka) is now out of preview and ready for production! Learn about why they built it, the new web interface, and how Confluent Cloud KSQL synergistically integrates with other components of Confluent Cloud
• Spring Security: Authentication and Authorization In-Depth
• Srinivas Vasu has a nice post on how to use JHipster (which is powered by Spring Boot with KNative (powered by Kubernetes))
• Have you seen the VMWare KubeAcademy-one of the easiest ways to learn Kubernetes.
• This doesn't have to do with Spring, per se, but it's been top of mind for me of late as I've been moving (personal) code to Github Actions: comparing GitHub Actions and CircleCI for Testing Pull Request Changes
• Learn how to use the open-source Greenplum Database modernizes data warehouses