Hi, Spring fans! Or, I suppose: 안녕하세요, Spring 팬 여러분! I'm writing this from a café in scintillating Seoul, Korea. It's amazing. I've been talking to developers of all stripes who are using and building upon Spring to do all sorts of cool stuff.

And tomorrow, it's off to jolly Japan. I'll be speaking, among other places, at the Japanese Spring User Group in Tokyo. I'd love to see you there!

We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze has a nice sample application demonstrating Kotlin/WASM, leveraging Kotlin serialization on both JVM and in WASM, and using Spring Boot 3.3 and Kotlin 2.0.
• Speaking of Sébastien, I interviewed him, and we talked about all things Spring, AppCDS, GraalVM, Project Leyden, Kotlin, and more.
• I also interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson yesterday, and we talked about all things Spring, AI, venture capital, and more.
• There’s an interesting discussion on a ticket in Spring Framework around proxies with CGLIB when @Aspect is used.
• Micrometer 1.13.4 is out!.
• I am honored to have been featured in JetBrains' recent blog on the top 12 podcasts for Java developers in 2024.
• Our friend Siva from AtomicJar (now Docker) has a nice template application for using Spring with a hexagonal architecture.
• Colleague, hero, and friend Toshiaki Maki has a nice Japanese-language blog on setting up SAML with Spring Security in AWS.