Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States and I feel like I've got a ton of things and a ton more people for which and for whom to be thankful, and a huge, constant part of that is you, dear community. I say this in this column all the time, but you - the community - are the main reason that Spring is worth doing. I know that I speak for the entire Spring team when I say: thank you! And, speaking for myself, I hope that, whether you're in the US celebrating Thanksgiving or anywhere else, that you're healthy, happy and safe, as always. Now then, we've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: BDD creator, optimizer of organizations and agile legend Dan North
• How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application | Confluent
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default
• Reactive Streams in JavaScript with RSocket Flowable disq.us/t/3pokszu | Excellent article! I'm intrigued by RSocket.
• Some good, free, courses on Spring
• Spring Boot 2.4 now includes the reactive Spring Data Neo4j drivers!
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M5 (aka Ilford) is Available
• Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1
• Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Neo4j 6.0
• Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data R2DBC 1.2
• Spring Native for GraalVM 0.8.3 available now
• TOC Approves Cloud Native Buildpacks from Sandbox to Incubation | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• The Open Source Community Speaks: Contribution, Distribution & More
• Why Debugging Doesn’t Need to Be So Complex or Outdated - a vocal interview with me that's been transcribed into text
• https://twitter.com/RabbitMQ/status/1328995834558640130 @RabbitMQ Kubernetes cluster Operator for RabbitMQ has reached a major milestone: 1.0! https://t.co/nNdp2JmXzy https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2020/11/17/rabbitmq-kubernetes-operator-reaches-1-0/
• Implement a rolling index strategy with Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1
• Announcing Spring Data Neo4j 6.0 by Gerrit Meier and Michael Simons (@rotnroll666)
• What’s New in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1 #IndexTemplates
• Why should we should embrace the Testing Trophy in Spring?