Hi, Spring fans! Welcome back to another lively edition of This Week in Spring! So much is always happening in the Spring world, and that’s part of what makes it so fun to follow. One of my favorite things is how much the community contributes and how great it is to connect with everyone. In early September, I’ll be in Oslo, Norway, for the JavaZone conference, and then in Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference. But before we get there, it’s been a busy and exciting week, so let’s jump in.

• I did a video looking at the amazing JobRunr distributed job scheduling and execution engine
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I was thrilled to chat with Tanzu's very own Gregory Green about RabbitMQ, Valkey, GemFire, Data Flow, and so much more
• A nice video on deploying Spring AI-powered agents to AgentCore in no time at all
• Speaking of, Spring AI AgentCore 2.1.0 is out!
• Another amazing post from Craig Walls on making Spring AI-powered agents conversation-aware.
• I loved this interview on the Marco Show with Spring Framework, Spring AOT, Kotlin, and Spring AI contributor and guru Sebastien Deleuze
• A very interesting discussion on the implications (good and sometimes surprising) of introducing virtual threads to a Java 24 project
• Speaking of AI (more?), I'm pleased that Broadcom, where I and most of the Spring team work, is now part of the Open Secure AI Alliance
• This video is now a month old, but I promise you, you'll probably learn something, so check it out: From Brackets to Beans to Boot
• Amazon's James Ward has a great idea on how to dramatically improve token consumption, and he shows DaShaun Carter and me how with a Spring AI-based implementation in this amazing livestream