Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 12th of September? I'm doing alright, elated, even. I've just returned from beautiful Oslo, Norway, and I've got a busy 30 days or so ahead, starting today. I'm visiting Seattle, WA; Mexico City, Mexico; Dallas, TX; Singapore (SpringOne Singapore); Antwerp, Belgium (Devoxx BE!); London, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and (maybe) parts of Germany. Keep an eye on my socials and videos for details as those dates and duties become clearer. Anyway, we've got a ton to look into this week, so let's dive right into it.

• Introducing Spring AI
• Another solid video from Spring In Action legend Craig Walls: Spring AI and Embeddings
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• All together now: Spring Boot 3.2, GraalVM native images, Java 21, and virtual threads with Project Loom,
• all the SpringOne 2023 videos are now live
• I love the possibilities of Java's Project Leyden - Capturing Lightning in a Bottle
• Spring Commercial Support Extension
• SpringBoot virtual threads vs webflux: Performance comparison for JWT verify and MySQL query
• The Top Programming Languages 2023 - IEEE Spectrum - the rumours of Java's demise are greatly exxagerated.
• Spring legend Sebastien Deleuze says: "I have worked on several improvements in Spring Framework 6.1 that will bring Kotlin Coroutines support to the next level: Spring AOP support, propagation in functional or annotation-based filters, new context DSL. Feedback appreciated!"
• Blog: Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord