Hi, Spring fans! It's a new Lunar year, so that's exciting, and I just celebrated my birthday, and that of my late father, as well. That was exciting. But there was also some bittersweet news. Let's get that out of the way first...

My friend, my hero, Stéphane Maldini, former project lead of Project Reactor and cofounder of the Reactive Streams initiative, passed away two months ago. We in the Java community made him a Java Champion posthumously. We miss him dearly. I think of him when I write reactive code.

Mon ami, mon héros, Stéphane Maldini, ancien lead de l'equipe Reactor et cofondateur des Reactive Streams, est mort il y a deux mois. La commaunité Java l'a nommé un Java Champion. Il nous manque beaucoup. Je pense a lui lorsque j'ecris du code reactive.

Java Champions on Twitter.

RIP, Stéphane.

Sigh.

It's been two months and it still sucks so much that he's gone. Thanks for indulging this lament, and now, on to this week's roundup.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Framework cofounder and project lead, friend, and all-around amazing human being, Juergen Hoeller
• Josh Long - Kubernetes Native Java - YouTube. I recently did a talk for the JChampions (comprised of speakers who are all uniquely Java Champions) Conference. It was a lot of fun and you might enjoy it. I also loved catching up with fellow Java Champion Mary Grygleski, who informs and delights every time.
• Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1] - YouTube
• It was a ton of fun to wok AtomicJar's Oleg Selajev and Sergei Egorov developing this talk, introducing "super fast local development with Spring Boot's devtools and Testcontainers-powered databases From a change in the source code to a new instance running in less than a few hundred milliseconds!
• Spring Authorization Server 0.2.2 available now
• Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M1 (codename Kilburn) Has Been Released
• Spring Native 0.11.2 available now
• Nice! The MyBatis project has released a new not-yet GA Spring Native integration based in part on the work I did to prove it out. This in turn spurred interest from the team and the collaboration kept going strong even after I disengaged. The work is amazing, and you should try it out to build your own MyBatis + Spring Boot + GraalVM images: mybatis/spring-native. Check out the Quick Start, too
• I had a lot of fun speaking to the Turkey Java Community! Thanks for having me.