Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a crazy week so let's delay not even one second longer!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked with Microsoft’s Kushagra Thapar on Spring Data Cosmosdb
• Have you seen the new Spring Graal Native 0.6.0 support?
• In last week's Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Integration Kotlin DSL
• Want help on effectively pair programming remotely? Our experts are here to help
• This Month in RabbitMQ went out - don't miss these roundups!
• A nice post looking at when to Use Eirini, Quarks or KubeCF for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
• Apache Geode: A Quick History. Apache Geode, the open source project that underpins the Gemfire in-memory data-grid, has had a long and storied road to where it is now. You can use it easily with Spring Boot and the Spring Data for Apache Geode project - I did a Spring Tips video on the topic a little while ago.
• SpringLive, our free virtual event, featured speakers from VMware, Microsoft, Confluent, Okta, Google, and more now has sessions that you can watch online
• We have exciting updates for application-level abstractions, build processes, and container-level abstraction. See what they are here
• Curious about Spring Boot? What about Kubernetes? This Thursday (two days from now!), Spring Cloud team member Ryan Baxter will cover the basics on both.
• From Forbes magazine: top developers agree: Java 14 makes code super-expressive. I did a Spring Tips on some of the features of Java 14 and their use with Spring
• I hope you'll join me and tons of other JVM ecosystem folks tomorrow for AllTheTalks, an online conference for you to watch while you wait for the plague to pass. The show is tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th, 2020.
• I liked this Chinese-language article introducing RabbitMQ
• Discover how RabbitMQ encourages opensource contribution by prioritizing a considerate contribution process
• The Steeltoe team has now released Steeltoe 3.0.0-m2! Think of Steeltoe as being a very useful, albeit less fully featured, Spring Cloud for .NET developers. It lets .NET developers interoperate with various SPring Cloud infrastructure]()
• The DZone Security zine has a nice post on using Angular 7, Spring Boot and JWT-centric authentication
• Targeted to JDK 15: JEP 378: Text Blocks (Standard) will now officially land in Java 15.
• Oracle's David Delabassee has a fantatic, albeit not strictly speaking related to Spring, article on how to get the Mac and Linux builds of the OpenCV Java bindings to work
• Tanzu Application Catalog overview
• Do you want to learn how to tie your cloud infrastructure capabilities to your containerized applications? The new Integrating with Cloud Providers course on #KubeAcademy will teach you how. Learn more about the course here
• Here's another @springcloud issue that newcomers or firsttime contributors might find easy to fix https://t.co/pxAzT6qFkK
• Also targeted for Java 15: JEP 377 (ZGC), which is a scalable low-latency garbage collector
• The opensource team at VMWare interviewed me, if you're interested. Spring Development: An Interview with Josh Long
• Want to develop Spring Boot apps and secure them with OpenID Connect & OAuth2? Check out this video for a nice introduction!