Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to dive into so let's get goin'!

• A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra
• Accelerate Spring Apps to Cloud at Scale - Discussion with Azure Spring Cloud Customers
• Spring Authorization Server 0.2.1 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Function 3.2 is out!
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0 is out!
• Spring Tips: @Controllers and RSocket
• JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• Living with Kubernetes: 12 Commands to Debug Your Workloads
• Hmm. I wonder what Mark Paluch's cooking something awesome with the R2DBC SPI. I wonder what...?
• Nice job, Github Actions! There's now integrated sigstore support! …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the General Availability of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train, codename Jubilee, is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0 Release Train

2021.0.0 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.1

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Support for per LoadBalancer configuration properties (added as well to Gateway, Contract and OpenFeign).

Spring Cloud Config

• Integration with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Parameter Store and GCP Secret Manager.
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Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 is finally out and with it you have Spring Cloud Function 3.2

While the full list of features, enhancements and bug fixes is available here, I’d like to call out few of them in this post and provide some details.

gRPC Support

In addition to an already existing support for invoking function via AWS Lambda, RSocket, Spring Cloud Stream etc., Spring Cloud Function now allows you to invoke function via gRPC. Two ways to benefit from it.

Spring Message

Given the wide adaption of Spring Messaging, one way of benefiting from gRPC support is by embracing Spring's Message. Spring Cloud Function provides GrpcSpringMessage schema modeled after Spring's Message. It is internally converted to Spring Message to benefit from all of the existing support for Spring Messaging…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra.

• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 1
• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 2
• We Pushed Helm to the Limit, then Built a Kubernetes Operator
• A Case for Databases on Kubernetes from a Former Skeptic

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive), we continue our tour of all things @Controller, this time focusing on the Spring support for RSocket. You might also want to watch the expanded discussion of RSocket in earlier Spring Tips videos:

1. The RSocket Revolution - watch this next!
2. Raw RSocket support
3. RSocket Messaging and the @Controller component model
4. RSocket and Spring Security
5. Spring Retrosocket

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.2.1.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.2.1'

See the release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the sample to become familiar with setup and configuration.

We would love to gather your feedback as we strive to improve and build upon this release.

Project Page | GitHub Issues | ZenHub…

Hi, Spring fans! I love the Azure Spring Cloud platform - jointly developed with the Spring team and Microsoft - and I'm not alone! So do its users! Check out this panel discussion moderated by Adib Sakali and Asir Selvasingh with Morgan Stanley, Bosch, and Digital Realty Trust.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week's been nutty! Here in the US, we just celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, and I am fat with turkey and pie, and lazy. But happy. I hope you're well fed and happy, too. Time's flying. (Also: can you believe we're a month away from the new year? I think there's like four or five weeks (and thus _This Week in Spring_s!) left in the year!)

We've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's go:

• Security Report for Spring AMQP (Spring for RabbitMQ)
• Spring Boot 2.6.1 is now available
• Spring Data MongoDB - Relation Modelling
• Thymeleaf 3.0.13 now available! This new version includes security improvements, make sure to check the release notes
• In last week's installmetn of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked about reactive-systems with functional programming legend Debasish Ghosh
• The Apache Cassandra project is working hard to officially support JDK 17 in the next Apache Cassandra major release.
• I love to see how far the JVM has come. One great indicator of its progress: its garbage collector. Check out this post on …

MongoDB’s flexible schema allows for multiple patterns when it comes to modeling relationships between entities. Also, for many use cases, a denormalized data model (storing related data right within a single document) might be the best choice, because all information is kept in one place, so that the application requires fewer queries to fetch all data. However, this approach also has its downsides, such as potential data duplication, larger documents, and the maximum document size.

In general, MongoDB recommends using normalized data models when the advantages of embedding are neglected by the implications of duplication. In this blog post, we take a look at the different possibilities of linking documents with manual references and DBRefs…