Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay attention to joshlong.com for details as they become clearer. I think, for example, that I'll be doing a Java User Group in Delhi, India.

We've got a ton of cool stuff to look at this week, so let's dive right into it!

• in last week's installment of This Week in Spring, I talk to Tanzu and Spring legend Chris Sterling
• I love this blog by the Spring team's own Sébastien Deleuze on CDS support and Project Leyden in Spring Framework
• Craig Walls, author of the upcoming Spring AI In Action, just updated his source code to reflect some of Spring AI M2's new observability
• Did I mention I'll be speaking in Korea?
• I am starting to read Stratopheric, too, and want to second Martin Hock's endorsement
• Java language architect Brian Goetz does an amazing job looking at where we are, and where we're going, with Project Valhalla
• Nice! htmx-spring-boot is now on the Spring Initializr
• the new release of Spring Modulith supports nested modules!
• I loved this discussion with Tanzu CTO James Watters in which he discusses VMWare's "golden path."
• Have you checked out the JSPecify annotations - a new set of annotations to describe nullability semantics?