Hi, Spring fans! Well, here we are! Nearing the end of August 2020! I can't believe it! September follows August (last I checked) and with September comes SpringOne 2020! I am so excited about this mega (and virtual) event and I hope you'll consider joining us there!

On a personal note, today's moving day for my family and me, so I have to get back to that. But we do have a ton to get to so let's dive into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket everywhere and Maciej Walkowiak on Spring Cloud AWS
• A Bootiful Podcast: Software Security in the Supply Chain
• A new video in the Spring Cloud AWS series, this one looking at how to scale out databases with RDS and Spring Cloud AWS.
• Case Study: HTTP Request Function and Processor
• CockroachDB & Spring Tutorials for Spring Data JDBC, JPA, & MyBatis
• Config file processing in Spring Boot 2.4
• Creating Efficient Docker Images with Spring Boot 2.3
• Getting started with Spring Cloud AWS - YouTube
• Hooking Into the Spring Bean Lifecycle
• How cf-for-k8s Reinvents Cloud Foundry as a Native Kubernetes App Platform
• Interesting post on the performance of user-mode threads and coroutines
• Introduction - Spring Boot on GCP
• Microsoft's Rory Preddy on Integrating “Reactive” APIs to traditional relational databases
• New candidate JEP: 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)
• Premiering: The RSocket Revolution
• Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is out!
• Spring Boot 2.3.3 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.0-M2 is now available
• Spring Data 2020.0.0-M2 released
• Spring Data Neumann SR3 released
• Spring Initializr 0.9.1 available now
• Spring Integration 5.4 M2 Available
• Spring Security 5.3.4, 5.2.6, 5.1.12, 5.0.18, 4.2.18 Released
• Spring Security 5.4.0-RC1 Released
• The recent improvements to the way that Spring Boot loads configuration portend some nice changes for users of the Spring Cloud Config Server...
• VMware Hits the Ground Running with the Launch of Open Source Security Foundation
• Want to contribute to Spring Cloud Contract and move the code from Groovy to Java? We'd love your help
• What is Spring? A nice 4 minute explainer by Mark Heckler
• jdk/jdk repository transitions to Git, GitHub and Skara: September 5