Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! (Sadly, he passed in 2019). I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good as all the cool stuff we've got in this week's roundup! Let's dive right into it.

• Spring Cloud 2022.0.5 (aka Kulburn) is now available
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring trainer Patrick Basumgartner about optimizing Spring applications
• Spring Cloud Commons 4.1.1 has been released
• In last week's Spring Tips, I looked at easy domain driven design and CQRS with Axon Framework and Spring Boot
• Spring legend Craig Walls has a nice video on image generation with Spring AI
• Spring Data JPA findById is an anti-pattern? Nope! check this blog out
• the Auth0 blog has another banger, this time looking at how to build a GraphQL API with Spring Boot
• I love this - a great collaboration on Project Leyden, an effort to produce dimensions of optimizations for the JVM
• Want a quick debrief on all the new features in Java over the last few years! Well too bad! There are too many. There's no way to do this quickly! Ridiculous. But if you want a list of all the features and don't mind investing a bit of time, then check this out
• the Digma blog has a nice list of key features in Spring Boot 3.2 by friend of the community Simon Verhoeven. Nice work, Simon!