Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then I after. I am super excited to learn from her! Then, I join James Ward and we'll speak at Kotlin Conf. Then, I take a quick train to Paris to speak at Devoxx Fr. I hope if you're about you'll join me at any of these talks.

• Want to learn the nitty gritty of using Spring Cloud's Azure Key Vault integration? Check out this guide on the Baeldung blog: A Guide to Spring Cloud Azure Key Vault
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 1 - The Basics
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative
• Is There an Equivalent of Spring Boot for Kotlin? (Yes. Also: Sébastien Deleuze works like a "Greek hero")
• Did you know that Spring has a ton of helpful utility methods? Check out this oldie-but-a-goodie Spring Tips video I did
• URL Matching in Spring Boot 3 looks at the potentially breaking change in the behavior of trailing slash matching in Spring MVC and Spring Webflux URI paths. Option 4 is the best way to go
• Check out the quickstart guide for Azure Spring Apps, the cloud platform-as-a-service co-developed by Microsoft and the Spring team
• Did you know the good folks from Jetbrains have a few fantastic Spotify playlists: Code Like It's the 80s , Adrenaline Coding, and Pure Flow Coding? I listen to them all the time.
• The new TIOBE language index is out. Java has maintained its normal place; there's a bit of an upset in the inclusion of the Zig programming language, a would-be C++ successor, in the roundup. Kotlin is
• I did a talk for the good folks over at Jetbrains on Spring Boot 3 and some folks seem to like it
• Want a great free resource to learn Spring? Check out the Spring.academy!