Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of great stuff to get to, and I'm otherwise on vacation (though you can still expect a new episode of A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), as usual) for this week, so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Axon Framework Founder Allard Buijze on CQRS, Sagas, and more
• A cool video demonstrating Spring Native
• Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!
• Blog: Using Finalizers to Control Deletion
• Check out the latest version of the HAL explorer
• Check out the recording of my talk with Julien Dubois, and Rory Preddy
• Live Webinar - From MVC to Reactive - Registration
• Modern Web Development - DZone Trend Report
• Move out workshops generation · Issue #249 · spring-cloud-samples/spring-cloud-contract-samples · GitHub
• Spring AMQP 2.2.17.RELEAE & 2.3.7 available
• Spring Data 2021.0.1 and 2020.0.9 released
• Spring Framework 5.3.7 and 5.2.15 available now
• Spring HATEOAS 1.2.6 and 1.3.1 released
• Spring LDAP 2.3.4 released
• Spring Security 5.5 goes GA
• Spring for Apache Kafka 2.5.13.RELEASE, 2.6.8 & 2.7.1 available
• SpringOne Tour: Booternetes II - May 12, 2021. Join me - Josh Long, Mark Heckler, Mario Gray, David Turanski, Tiffany Jernigan, Chris Sterling, Nate Schutta, and special guest star Joe Beda, co-founder of Kubernetes, for this epic introduction to the ways
• The team I work on is hiring (in the US only, sadly)! Join me and the rest of the epic team and let's change the world together!
• Automate Spring Boot app deployments to Azure. Use Blue-Green to reduce downtime and risk. Automate end-to-end! Create a pipeline using Azure Pipelines
• Want to learn more about Java on Microsoft Azure? Join the "Ask the #Java Experts" live session at #MSBuild with: Asir Selvasingh, Bruno Borges, and many others
• Check out this talk on the Microsoft build of OpenJDK and other useful Java things on VS Code and Azure.