Aloha, my friends, from Hawai'i, where I'm currently on vacation! And, because I'm on vacation, I'll cut to the chase: there's a lot of great stuff to get to this week (surprise!)

But first, a friendly turtle I met the other day:

You're welcome. Now then, where were we? Oh right!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk about visualizing software architecture with the C4 model with architect Simon Brown. Don't miss this one!
• Spring Tips: Some cool features possible with Spring Integration 5.5
• Have you checked out the speakers in this year's SpringOne, on September 1st to 2nd, 2021? I'll be there and so will many amazing others!
• Spring Data 2021.0.3 and 2020.0.11 released
• Spring Data 2021.1.0-M1 released
• Spring Framework 5.3.9 and 5.2.16 available now
• I love this blog looking at Spring GraphQL Milestone One
• Spring Security 5.6.0-M1 released
• The State of Spring Survey is back and we want to hear from you!
• I love to see this, finally, Building applications with RabbitMQ streams
• Blog: Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know