It's August! Egads, has that come quickly! AUGUST. The eigth month of the year, and we're almost done with the first week, in fact! It's not that I'm not grateful to be here, but, yah, wow that was quick. And, of course, the month of my all time double dutch favorite conference, SpringOne, happening August 26th, 2024! Will I see you there?

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Micrometer teammate Jonatan Ivanov
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I had special guest contributor and Spring Security lead Rob Winch
• Spring AI with Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine
• I love this blog from the MongoDB developer blog called Discover Your Ideal Airbnb: Implementing a Spring Boot & Atlast Search with Kotlin Sync Driver
• Spring AI enables quick delivery of Intelligent apps in javaspring-ai-enables-quick-delivery-of-intelligent-apps-in-java
• Supporting ProblemDetails in Spring
• a nice step-by-step guide to GCP and Spring and OpenTelemetry
• Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts
• Nice InfoQ article on the latest in Spring Boot 3.3
• the Azure page for Spring Boot has been updated
• and so has the Jetbrains page for Spring Boot
• the GeeksforGeeks blog has a nice post on using Spring Data's JpaRepository