Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

• How to create dynamic SQL queries with Spring Boot
• I love this article looking at the amazing new features in Spring Application Advisor
• a lovely video by the amazing Greg Turnquist: Using JdbcTemplate with CockroachDB
• Spring AI: a Doot to GenAI heaven for Java developers - yup!
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Just Use Postgres!" author Denis Magda
• I've got this queueud up: Spring AI Masterclass with Spring Boot..
• ..and this one: Spring AI with DeepSeek R1
• a gentle reminder that there are guides on how to build your first application with Spring Boot available here
• and don't forget we have the Spring Academy if you want guides courses...