Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! First: a happy belated mother's day to you! Being a mom is already the hardest job, and it got considerably harder this last year as a global pandemic descended on the world forcing so many new complications on an already fraught enterprise: raising a family. So, thank you, moms. (Also: you deserve far more than just a day!)

• Have you registered for tomorrow's brand new (free!) SpringOne Tour installment? Don't miss this! It's going to be a jam packed exploration of using Spring to expand the opportunities implied by Kubernetes with yours truly, Mark Heckler, Mario Gray, Nate Schutta, David Turanski, Tiffany Jernigan and Chris Sterling.
• A Bootiful Podcast: Friend, fellow Spring Developer Advocate, Kotlin Google Developer Expert, and Java Champion, Mark Heckler
• Check out the recording of my talk with Microsoft's Julien Dubois, and Rory Preddy on Azure Spring Cloud
• Five compelling reasons to submit a proposal to speak at VMworld 2021
• Kevin Viglucci on Twitter: "Just merged a PR that adds the start of a guides section to the #RSocket website. This includes an initial pass at an rsocket-js guide. Hopefully adding other language impls as time allows. Please don't hesitate to provide feed
• Spring Authorization Server 0.1.1 available now
• Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes
• SpringOne Tour Booternetes Europe
• They’re going to be publishing a Spring for Kafka course soon!
• I loved this video that, among other things, looked at the new Java records