Hi Spring fans! What a week it's been! When we last spoke I was in Capetown, South Africa or Johannesburg, South Africa. I've since been to Mauritius, back to Capetown, Serbia (for the amazing ITKonekt conference) and I'm now staring at the beautiful Bund river in beautiful Shanghai, China as I write this.

We've got a ton to get to this week, as usual, so let's get to it.

• Hi Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of Spring Tips, this one on the just-released-in-master support for RSocket Messaging in Spring Boot 2.2. It's here! It's finally here! I was so excited to see this land and I hope you get a chance to try it out.
• Don't miss this webinar coming on April 18th, A Spring Developer’s Guide to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Galaxy Webinar
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.2.0.M1 Available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.0.9.RELEASE & 2.1.3.RELEASE Available
• Check out this post looking at the future of Kotlin and Spring, …

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips Josh revisits RSocket, the reactive application protocol from, among others, Facebook, this time looking at the brand new Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2 integration.

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Here's the first Spring Tips installment introducing the "raw" RSocket protocol and Java client library

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Roy Braam a solution's architect at Rabobank, a bank in the Netherlands, about how they are able to quickly iterate despite regulation and size.

• Roy Braam on Twitter
• Rabobank
• Josh Long on Twitter

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another wild-and-wacky week of This Week in Spring! I'm in Johannesburg, South Africa where I both spoke at the SpringOne Tour South Africa event and at the Johannesburg Java User Group. Had tons of fun on safari visiting (from the safety of a good deal of distance and an SUV) the utterly astonishing and beautiful - majestic - wildlife here. I can't stress that last part enough. The animals here are so, so, SO breathtaking. I got as close as I ever want to get to an elephant that was like a small house with eyes. Utterly massive! It towered over buses. When you go…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's episode Josh talks to Microsoft's Kylie Liang and Theresa Nguyen about the Microsoft Java and Spring integrations, the Java ecosystem, open-source, and more.

• Kylie (right) on Twitter (@liangkylie)
• Theresa (left) on Twitter (@RockClimberT)
• Josh on Twitter (@starbuxman)
• The "Spring Tips" screencast introducing the Spring and Microsoft Azure integration

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips in which I look at the just-landed-on-master WebMvc.fn programming model in Spring MVC. WebMvc.fn is the functional DSL for Spring MVC that, I'll bet, you didn't know you wanted! This is awesome!

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I'll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg and then it's off to to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

LTR: Confluent co-founder Jay Kreps, Tim Berglund, me and Pivotal SVP James Watters

And without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
• Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
• Last week on A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast) I talked to Josh Mckenty about data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
• If you get one blog to read, read this one on the Reactor Debugging Experience. It's amazing!
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
• Want to know what makes Pivotal Cloud Foundry the best place to run Spring Boot applications?
• Focus on Integration Tests Instead of Mock-Based Tests
• A gentle reminder that you should …

Hi Spring fans! In this week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast I, Josh Long, welcome Josh Mckenty - or "better Josh," as I affectionately call him - to the show to discuss Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, Python, microservices, and data sovereignty, among other things.

Josh McKenty (@jmckenty) on Twitter

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Pleasanton, CA, visiting one of Pivotal's large customers, and then tomorrow it's off to New York City for my talk there at the Kafka Summit with the excellent Tim Berglund and James Watters. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg) and then it's off to Mauritius for the DevConf - if you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

Also, totally worth including that on Sunday Spring Framework marked the 15th anniversary of its release on…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long talks to AxonIQ's Steven van Beelen, lead of the Axon project, and Pivotal's Ben Wilcock, on CQRS, event-sourcing, event-storming, microservices, Spring Boot and the long camaraderie shared by Axon and Spring.

• Axon framework lead Steve van Beelen
• Pivotal product marketing manager Ben Wilcock
• Axon founder and AxonIQ CEO Allard Buijze
• AxonIQ