Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring!

If you're in the Bay Area, I hope you'll join me at 875 Howard St. in San Francisco at the Pivotal offices on the 5th floor at 5:30 both today and tomorrow. I'll be giving one talk each evening - one on building RESTful services with Spring, and the other a sort of abbreviated look at the latest and greatest in the Spring.IO platform. Also, the SpringOne2GX 2013 keynotes from day 1 and day 2 are now up for your enjoyment. Make sure to check out the Day 1 keynote around 1:13:40 to hear Pivotal Labs - hardcore Ruby developers, talk about their experience with Spring and Spring Boot.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

1. For everybody who is looking to quickly increase their Spring knowledge Spring Education is offering a nice end of the year discount on all Spring Training classes in November and December. Please use the following referral code during the registration process: springtime.
2. At the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013, Pivotal announced that Spring for Apache Hadoop / Spring XD has been certified with Pivotal HD, Cloudera's CDH, and Hortonworks HDP products.
3. Speaking of Spring XD - a new getting started guide on how to use Spring XD to monitor Twitter is now available - check it out!
4. If you want to learn about Spring for Hadoop and Spring XD, check out the replay of the webinar, What You Can Do With Hadoop: Building Big Data Applications with Hadoop & Spring.
5. Still Spring and Hadoop hungry? The SpringOne 2GX 2013 Day 2 Keynote Replay is now available -- hear Mark Pollack, Mark Fisher, Michael Minella and Graeme Rocher in their epic keynote ranging from Spring IO, Groovy/Grails, Spring and Hadoop, Big Data, Spring Batch and Integration.
6. Join Juergen Hoeller for a Spring Webinar Replay: Modern Component Design with Spring from a very recent webinar!
7. Catch up on the latest in Websockets with Rossen Stoyanchev in a webinar replay: Building WebSocket Browser Applications with Spring
8. Spring MVC and web CMS users should check out this session from Campbell-Ewald and Magnolia on Bringing Spring Apps to the Web at the US Navy, brought to you by the Spring Team and Magnolia.
9. On November 19th, I'll join C24 CEO John Davies for a talk, Dynamic Routing at 1 Million Per Second with Spring Integration where we'll discuss how to scale processing with C24's excellent integration technology and Spring Integration
10. Join me on November 21st for a webinar introducing the latest and greatest coming out of the Spring family as part of Pivotal
11. Our friend Petri Kainulainen is back at it again, this time with a post on how to add Spring MVC web application registration and login with the Spring Social and Spring Social Security modules.
12. Nicolas Frankel has put together an interesting post: Dependency Injection and Rich Domain Objects are Compatible.
13. Dan Woods is back and he's put together a post on creating a backend processor (service tier) with Spring Integration and RabbitMQ
    
14. Spring Data ninja Oliver Gierke has announced that the Spring Data Babbage release train SR1 has been released. The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. You can find all issues fixed in this release in our JIRA. This release train is named for Charles Babbage, who was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer.