Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it's already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies... or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
• Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1
• This Week in Spring - November 24th, 2020
• ff4j-samples/spring-boot-2x/ff4j-sample-springboot2x at master · ff4j/ff4j-samples · GitHub
• Using Cassandra? Learn what’s new in #SpringData Cassandra 3.1
• In the Tanzu Developer Center, you can get hands-on training for: ? Agile ? CI/CD ? Containers ? Kubernetes ? Microservices ? Python ? Spring Get started: https:/
• What do Tanzu customers think about the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid? Find out here
• Want to (re)watch an episode of #TGIK8s? You can here
• Want to know what our financial customers think of Tanzu Mission Control? Look no further.
• Have you seen how simple it's become recently to build @graalvm native images with Spring Boot?
• A library implementing Siren as a custom Spring HATEOAS hypermedia type. Siren is a hypermedia specification for representing entities.
• A reminder that multi cloud is a necessity: prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet - The Verge