Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into so I won't dilly dally too much, but before I get to it I just wanted to remind you that I'll be joining JHipster and founder Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate Julien Dubois on April 15th (two days from now!) to talk about Azure Spring Cloud: don't miss it!

• Spring Framework 5.3.6 and 5.2.14 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Ambassador Labs devrel director, InfoQ contributor, lifelong learner, and awesome human, and friend Daniel Bryant
• An interesting use case with Azure Spring Cloud and SwissRe
• Did you know that there are Bitcoin starters for Spring Boot?
• I did a talk, Reactive Spring, for the jLove conference a few weeks ago. You might dig it.
• Introducing Spring Cloud Square
• My team is hiring! Come work with me and we'll help make the world a better place, one Kubernetes production deploy at a time, at Tanzu.
• Reliable WebSockets-based pub/sub with Spring Boot | Ably Blog: Data in Motion
• This exciting project uses Spring Boot and JHipster and Azure Spring Cloud
• This is an older article from last year but it's awesome: Compiling Kotlin at Runtime - DZone Java
• Why Kubernetes Developer Ecosystem Needs A PaaS
• Blog: Introducing Suspended Jobs
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.21: CronJob Reaches GA
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.21: Power to the Community
• Blog: Local Storage: Storage Capacity Tracking, Distributed Provisioning and Generic Ephemeral Volumes hit Beta
• Blog: kube-state-metrics goes v2.0