Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm not going to spend too much time here in the preamble because a) today's both my birthday and my late father's birthday and b) I got the worst gift ever: COVID-19. Sigh. So, I'm going back to bed. Without further ado, let's get into this week's roundup!

• A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast
• Introducing Microservices Patterns with Spring Integration
• New Spring Academy from Spring Experts Helps Unlock Developer Potential
• Scaling a Spring application with a YugabyteDB cluster
• Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now Generally Available
• Spring Initializr and Continuous Generation
• Spring Shell 2.1.6 and 3.0.0 are now available
• An awesome example of using Spring Cloud Function with AWS Lambda and Spring Boot 3 AOT GraalVM native images - thanks to Oleg Zhurakousky for putting it together!
• 5 Essential Things Every Java Developer Should Have
• Communicating With Docker Containers on the Same Machine
• Comparing a String to an Enum Value in Java
• Difference between Spring vs SpringBoot Framework in Java
• HTTP Interface in Spring 6
• Ahead of Time Optimizations in Spring 6
• Aspect Oriented Programming for Spring Boot project
• Spring Boot Logback and Log4j2 Extensions