Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC for the SpringOne Tour NYC event, then it's off to Amsterdam for some customer visits. It's been a wild week in Spring so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Java Persistence API
• Don't miss this webinar on MongoDB by Spring Data's Christoph Strobl and Mat Keep
• Spring Fu is here and it's awesome! Just check out this example application of the new Kotlin-first microframework for Spring developers. Spring Fu is explicit, not implicit. It's functional, it's fast, it's Spring Fu.
• Don't miss the upcoming Pivotal Paris event with many of the Spring team's local engineers
• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5.1
• Dr. Mark Pollack, not one to rest on his laurels, just announced Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.5
• Check out this Spring I/O 2018 talk Securing Spring Applications with Spring Cloud Vault Jan Dittberner
• Check out this tutorial on how to use jQAssistant and Spring Boot and Maven
• More than half (61 percent) of all CloudFoundry users are large enterprises which generate over $1 billion in annual revenue. See how CCloudFoundry scales in the enterprise. Download the full report!
• I had a great time talking all things Cloud Native, Singapore/Malaysian/Indonesian food in this podcast recorded at Voxxed Singapore with the cloud's very own storyteller, Michael Coté
• Pivotal advocate Mark Heckler has a nice post on running multiple Eureka instances on the same machine
• Spring Data engineer Mark Paluch shared a tantalizing picture of initial integration for the Lettuce Redis driver and Zipkin
• Alexandru Ionita did a nice job chronicling the migration from Spring Boot 1.x to 2.x.
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• Check out the video to Johannes Edmeier's Spring I/O 2018 talk, "Monitoring Spring Boot Applications with Spring Boot Admin."
• Check out Arjen Poutsma's SpringOne Platform 2017 talk on the functional reactive web endpoints in Spring Framework 5
• Check out this epic Domain Driven Design example by Jakub Pilimon which now has new Spring Cloud Pipelines support
• the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot now works with Russ Miles' Chaos Toolkit
• Chaos Toolkit LOVES Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot – Chaos Toolkit – Medium
• Microsoft Azure have even better support for deploying Spring Boot applications