Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August, 2021! We're nearly to 2022! And I am, for better or for worse, back from vacation! I am so happy to be back, but I do miss the sunkissed beaches of Hawai'i. Sigh. Anyway, let's get into it! We've got a ton of things to get into, so without further ado...

• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Spring Cloud
• Blog: Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview
• Join Pure Storage at VMworld 2021
• Cassandre is an open-source framework that makes it easy to create your crypto trading bot in Java. Our Spring boot starter takes care of exchange connections, accounts, orders, trades, and positions so you can focus
• Check out this Spring Security Authorization Server example
• Join Confluent Developer advocate Viktor Gamov for this look at Spring and Apache Kafka 101
• Here's another interesting look at using Spring Boot with Swagger
• Did y'all see the latest installment of the SpringOne Tour. This was my favorite installment yet!
• Flight Status: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution