Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already square into the second month of 2021? We're 1/12th of the way through the year already! IT'S ALL GOING SO QUICK! So, I won't waste any further time, let's get to the roundup!

• This is a fantastic video by the legendary Brian Sam Boden on building a Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, with a React front end: Part 1
• 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware
• A Bootiful Podcast: Traceable's Pavol Loffay, creator of the Hypertrace Java agent
• GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java
• Handle R2DBC in Spring Projects, an article by Thibault MONEGIER du SORBIER
• I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG Meetup on February 16th, 2021
• New Year Goodies - Oracle JDBC 21.1.0.0 on Maven Central | Oracle Developers Blog. I linked to this because, at the bottom of the blog, they also mention that people can expect the reactive Oracle R2DBC driver soon, too! Huzzah!
• RSocket Load Balancing - Client Side by Vinsguru
• Running Axon Server in Docker and Kubernetes
• Spring Batch on Kubernetes: Efficient batch processing at scale
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.1 (aka Ilford) Is Available
• Spring Integration AWS 2.3.5.RELEASE & 2.4.0, and Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis Binder 2.0.4.RELEASE & 2.1.0 Available
• YMNNALFT: A lightweight SQL data mapper with the JdbcTemplate
• YMNNALFT: The Spring Utils Classes
• Last year Azure #Spring Cloud became Generally Available. Here's what has changed since then!
• Apple announced M1, an impl of AArch64. #OpenJDK was ready for it; had been for 5 years. However there's a layer that’s specific to each OS-CPU combination. However there's a layer that’s specific to each OS-CPU combination. We had volunteers: Microsoft and Azul, who worked together. Microsoft also ported to Win/AArch64
• Today, we’re excited to announce dates for VMware conferences slated for this year -- VMworld, CloudLIVE, Connect, and SpringOne!