Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a fun week thus far - I spoke Monday at the first ever Garden State JUG event on testing Spring-based application and services and then today I spoke at the NYJava SIG about RSocket. Thank you so much for having me!

I can't believe it's already October 6th! We're closer to 2021 than 2019. Crazy. A quarter of a year to go. I just write these roundups and things seem to fly as a result.

We've got a lot to get to, so let's dive right in

• I wrote a preface for a Chinese-language book on reactive programming with Spring and you might enjoy the book, too
• A Bootiful Podcast: Long time Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma on Spring's web support, Scala, API Design, Reactive programming and more
• Premiering: Cloud Native Java, Redux. I put together this quick, almost 50 minutes-long video, covering a ton of things: distributed locks, reactive service orchestration and composition, service registration and discovery, messaging, centralized configuration, Docker images for Kubernetes, and more. Watch this for a look at building services in 2020 using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud and more
• A look at the Sentry Spring Boot starter
• A promising UI for spring boot startup analysis
• Bootstrapping Java Kubernetes Apps With Spring Initializr and K8s Initializer - DZone Java
• Community Signal: Is Your Open Source Project Healthy?
• Documenting Spring Boot Microservices with Optic
• Easy Session Sharing in Spring Boot with Spring Session and MySQL
• Episode 4 “Record Classes” with Gavin Bierman
• How to: Spring Boot JPA + REST with Bootify - DEV
• New Panama/Foreign Early Access Build
• Project Panama and jextract
• Reactive Spring Boot
• Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB V3 – Generally Available
• The Path Towards Spring Boot Native Applications - YouTube
• Using Cassandra with the Java Spring Framework | Datastax
• Why Reactive Principles Ensure System Scalability: A Conversation with Josh Long
• Github Welcomes the OpenJDK project
• We're hiring!
• Async #Java Programming with Project Reactor and the new #Azure SDK for Java" by Srikanta Nagaraja
• The implementation of OpenJDK for #JEP388 Windows AArch64 (Arm) is now complete
• A new episode of TGIR is back!
• Check out the upcoming Java conference from Microsoft, JDConf
• Redis Client LettuceDriver 6.0 goes GA
• Data auditing with Spring Data R2DBC
• Java 15 Programmer's Guide To Text Blocks
• Remember, Spring Boot 2.1.x goes EOL this November
• Interest and use of Spring Cloud is growing rapidly. Get the full picture in the State of Spring 2020 report
• Maciej Walkowiak took a look at the new Spring Boot 2.4 Actuator startup endpoint