Hi, Spring fans! How're things? Good? Good. I just finished (virtually) presenting for the always-lovely London Java Community this morning. We spoke about Kotlin and Spring and things. It was good. Thank you so much for having me LJC! I also kicked off the epic JetBrains Java Day Online event last Friday. That was a ton of fun! Thank you Jetbrains. I finally, finally, put some elbow grease into automating a listing of some my activity and so now whenever I publish a new Spring Tips video, a new A Bootiful Podcast podcast, or commit to a new public appearance, I'll have information here on my public activity feed page. The appearances that are there right now don't represent all my upcoming appearances or even all my public appearances which you are free to attend, they only the ones I've polished off for presentation on this site. Give me a little while to go through the calendar and get more stuff there. There are a ton of things happening and I always do such a poor job of marketing them. Hopefully, this will help.

Speaking of abundance, there are a ton of things to get to in this week's roundup so let's get to it:

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Data JDBC lead Jens Schauder on Spring Data, domain-driven design and more
• Building web applications with Spring Boot and Vaadin
• Did you know that SpringOne is virtual, and free, this year? What’re you waiting for? Get ta registerin’!
• Don’t miss tomorrow’s Datastax Accelerate watch party
• Find out how Pivotal Labs can help during fully remote work
• First milestone of Reactor 2020.0 (Codename Europium)
• Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
• Have you considered getting Spring training and becoming certified?
• Introducing Java Functions for Spring Cloud Stream Applications - Part 0
• I’ll be speaking (virtually) at the London Java Community on Tuesday today!
• Marco Behler has another great interview, this time with Oliver Drotbohm
• New candidate JEP: 388: Windows/AArch64 Port. This is super cool in that it's the first JEP from Microsoft! What a wonderful time to be alive!
• Sign up now to hear from me on July 22-23 at the SpringOne Tour event on microservices. We'll be covering so much stuff friends. I'm looking forward to seeing you there! (And, by the way, if you have things you want to see covered, I'm doing an AMA-style session as well. :))
• Tech Elevator is now training on Spring Boot
• Thanks for having me!
• The Past, Present and Future of Cloud Foundry – Part 2
• The RabbitMQ Cluster Kubernetes Operator is now open source
• The Spring team wants to hear from you!
• The team that's been working on building a reactive Neo4J integration has just reached their first milestone: they've successfully integrated into Spring Data Neo4j. Next up: Spring Boot starters! Congrats to the Spring Data and Neo4j teams!
• This is not strictly speaking a JVM or Spring-adjacent post but it's super interesting. In it, Soumyadeep Deep introduces Zedstore, a Compressed Columnar Storage for Postgres, developed jointly by, among others, VMware. This has some interesting opportunities for things like Greenplum.
• Thorben Janssen has a great video on Spring Data JPA Named Queries
• Three reasons you'll deliver valuable software faster if you write tests first.
• We'd love the community's help as we redesign Spring Cloud Stream around functions.
• Which SpringOne track are you most excited about?