Hi, Spring fans! I'm writing this from - I can't believe I get to say this - abroad! I'm in London, UK! Now, this is not particularly noteworthy for those millions who already live here. But I don't live here. I'm a visitor! I live in San Francisco. I had to fly here! On a plane! With other people! ACROSS THE OCEAN. This is my first international flight since March of 2020, and I couldn't be more excited to be here for Devoxx UK and also just to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in nearly three years. If you know me, and how I used to travel, you'll appreciate how odd it is for me to be this excited to have crossed a border. It's been sooo long! I've missed the process. I've missed seeing people. I've missed all of it.

One thing I haven't missed is a lot of this week's new and noteworthy, which I recap in this week's This Week in Spring roundup. Let's goooo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Spring Katas legend Chandra Guntur
• Apr 28 - What's New in Spring Cloud Gateway Commercial?
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Expansion Now A Stable Feature
• Blog: Storage Capacity Tracking reaches GA in Kubernetes 1.24
• Build a Goodreads Clone with Spring Boot and Astra DB — Part 1
• How to enable mutual TLS in a Spring Boot Application | by Salar Ahmadi | Mar, 2022 | Medium
• Schedule a task in Spring Boot. Spring Boot is the most popular… | by Aleksandar Grujic | Mar, 2022 | Medium
• RSocket Broker HTTP Bridge 0.3.0 has been released. Check out this SpringOne presentation and an updated sample
• they updated the tutorial showing how to create your first application in IntellIJ IDEA and it's even nicer!