Hi, Spring fans, from London! I'm in this fabulous country doing my level-headed best to refrain from dooing Mr. Bean bits, because, honestly, if I - an avid and prolific fan of Spring and its many beans - can't be "Mr. Bean," then I'm glad Rowan Atkinson is!

I'm here for a SpringOne Tour event, and I can't wait. Friends, let's dive right into it!

• Sebastien Deleuze, Spring Framework committer and legend, has some interesting news! The GraalVM team is looking at building a WASM (Web Assembly) backend for their GraalVM native image compiler technology. I love this!
• SpringOne 2024 will be virtual! Register now!
• A freindly reminder from Netflix's Paul Bakker to switch your DGS starter dependency to leverage the DGS/Spring GraphQL integration
• Did you see the opening keynote from Spring IO 2024? It was epic! In it, we introduced the latest-and-greatest from Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Modulith, and Spring AI
• I liked this deck on platform engineering with Spring Boot
• I did a talk at Devoxx UK with my heroes Trisha Gee and Kevin Henney called 97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know. It was based on a book to which a number of us contributed. In this talk, they re-assembled a half dozen to dozen or so of us to reivist our contributions in stage-talk form. Lots of great content, though my talk started at 00:23:40 and I think you'll like my five minute segment!
• Speaking of Devoxx UK, I also did a talk with my friend Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on What's Looming with Spring!
• Interesting article: best practices for building applications with Gradle
• Spring Shell 3.3.0 is now available
• Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0 Available
• the State of Spring survey is available
• Spring Cloud 2023.0.2 (OSS) and 2022.0.7 (Enterprise) Have Been Released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Microsoft's Sandra Ahlgrimm on cloud, Java, AI, and more

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