Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm reporting to you from Los Angeles, where my family and I have gone for my daughter's spring break. We're going to survey some prospective colleges and we're going to Disneyland. Needless to say, I'm doubly glad to have all this cool stuff to read this week; I can really savor each article! Let's dive in!

• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 1 - The Basics
• Introduction to Grafana Loki
• JDK 20 Release Notes
• Not Spring Boot, per se, but this is interesting if you're developing against Kubernetes and want a quick introduction: Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions
• Run a Spring Boot Application in AWS Lambda
• SAML with Spring Boot and Spring Security
• Spring Boot 2.7.10 available now
• Spring Integration for AWS 3.0.0-M2 and Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis Binder 4.0.0-M1 Available
• Spring Kafka: Configure Multiple Listeners on Same Topic
• Spring Modulith 0.5.1 released
• Spring Modulith – Spring for the Architecturally Curious Developer by Oliver Drotbohm
• Spring R2DBC Migrations Using Flyway
• Start from zero and scale to zero – Azure Spring Apps consumption plan
• I loved this article about different tools that you can use in your CI environment - like Snyk and Dependabot - to keep bots up-to-date with dependencies
• Start from 0 and scale to 0 for the most efficient resource utilization and simplify networking for your polyglot apps with the Azure Spring Apps consumption plan
• Spring Cloud AWS lead Maciej Walkowiak put together a nice library called the Spring Boot Startup Report library generates an interactive Spring Boot application startup report that lets you understand what contributes to the application startup time and perhaps helps to optimize it.