Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? It's been unseasonably warm here in San Francisco so I am writing this from my balcony with a warm cup of coffee and hope in my heart. It is still very hard to believe we're near Halloween, though! Crazy how time flies. There's lots of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! Hopefully you can enjoy this week's news from some warm, safe and healthy spot in your life, too.

• A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Patrick McFadin on DataStax Astra, Cassandra, Cassandra data modeling patterns, and more
• A tutorial on Batch and REST
• History of Open Source and Free Software: Dirk & Swap: Conversations on Open Source
• Incubator support for Spring and GraphQL
• Premiering: Bootiful Kotlin
• Proposed schedule for JDK 16
• Spring Authorization Server 0.0.2 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.0-M4 available now
• Spring Data 2020.0 RC2 out now
• Spring Integration 5.4 Release Candidate 1 Available
• Spring Security: Delegating authorization checks to bean methods
• The Road to (Continuous) Delivery with Josh Long | Tanzu.TV | VMware Tanzu Developer Center
• VMware Experts Share Their First Open Source Project
• VMware’s Open Source Shop of Curiosities at All Things Open
• Why Open Governance Is Important for Open Source | Dirk Hohndel & Swapnil Bhartiya
• Why Use Singleton for Globalization? Understanding the Key Benefits
• https://twitter.com/JavaAtMicrosoft/status/1318622146336190465 @JavaAtMicrosoft Using #IntelliJ? Don't miss @trisha_gee covering Modern #Java productive features enabled by IntelliJ, and combine that with @rorypreddy's talk on Supercharging Spring Boot ap
• Have you checked out the VMware Developer Portal? There are tips on Kubernetes, Spring, CI/CD, remote work, agile, and so much more
• the latest terminology update: primitive objects