Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've been busy as all get out emceeing the Reactive Summit 2021 event (it's free and it's online!). The event has been awe-inspiring because there are so many amazing speakers from all walks of life present and speaking. Today, the conference welcomed professor Carl Hewitt, the creator of the Actor Paradigm, as its keynote. Then, figuring there was no topping that and figuring they could go for broke, they foolishly ( muahahah! ) asked me to do the day two keynote. So, I'll be doing tomorrow's keynote with my friend and Google Developer Advocate James Ward. Join us! It'll be super fun!

We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week though, so let's dive right into it!

• Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Mikusa on Buildpacks, Paketo, UPX, Tilt, GraalVM Native Images, Docker Containers and more
• Want to run the most modern incarnation of what used to be ActiveMQ? On the cloud? Check out the ArtemisCloud Operator which lets you easily stand up an Artemis instance on Kubernetes.
• Cool! Check this out: Google announced Kotlin support for Google protocol buffers
• A nice tutorial: how to set the logging level with application.properties in Spring Boot
• How to update an entity using Spring Data JPA?
• Spring GraphQL 1.0.0-M3 Released
• Spring Tips: @Controllers (pt. 1): the "C" in Model 2 MVC
• Spring Tools 4.12.1 released
• We're hiring! Join us: Staff-Software-Engineer - Cloud-Native-Runtimes--Streaming
• The new VMware Tanzu for developers hands-on lab is out!
• Join me for this year's YOW! Conference!
• AppDynamics - 1 step to activate and monitor Spring Boot apps on Azure Spring Cloud
• One cool way to remove developer toil and improve security in Kubernetes, the VMWare Tanzu build service. Check out more and down