Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

I'm just about to give a 2h presentation for the OOP conference. It's live. It'll be fun. Join us?

How've you been? You realize it's already the second week of February? Chinese New Year, a holiday celebrated by more than two billion people, begins on the 12th of February. So, seeing as how we won't get to talk again until after, let me wish everyone who celebrates: 新年快乐!

• A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka
• Alibaba's Jacky Chan has put together an awesome project that does client-side load balancing with Spring Cloud, but based on RSocket - very convenient!
• Demystifying Spring Cloud Stream producers with Apache Kafka partitions
• 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware
• A New Yeoman code generator for Spring Boot (that isn't the amazing JHipster?). Looks interesting...
• A Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, part 2
• A Spring Boot starter for the Doma mapping framework
• A great blog, Handle R2DBC in Spring Projects, by Thibault MONEGIER du SORBIER
• [A very useful guide to backups in Kubernetes, Getting Started with Velero, by teammate and legend Tiffany Jernigan, is now available on the VMware Tanzu Developer Center](https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/guides/kubernetes/velero-gs/)
• Apache Tomcat 10.0.2 has been released This is the first stable release of the 10.0.x series. Apache Tomcat 10.0.x targets Jakarta EE 9 (Servlet, WebSocket, EL, Pages, Authentication & Annotations)
• Build a Secure Spring Data JPA Resource Server
• Building a Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, with a React front end (part 1)
• GraalVM Native Image Quick Reference
• I was honored to have been a guest on the Devpod podcast. It was a fun interview and I hope you'll enjoy it, too.
• I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG Meetup on February 16th, 2021. Mark your calendars now and join us then!
• Learn more about what Microsoft Azure has to offer Java developers? Attend this fast-paced, virtual intro session at the Microsoft Reactor led by Rory Preddy on Feb-10
• The Transparent Software Developer - some interesting insight in this video
• We’re excited to announce dates for VMware conferences slated for this year -- VMworld, CloudLIVE, Connect, and SpringOne!