Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's almost Halloween! What're you going dressed as, if you celebrate? I'm going dressed as PHP code. (Terrifying!)

We've got a ton of stuff to dive into this week, so let's get right into it.

• a nice article by Craig Walls called on no build MCP services with Spring and JBang
• Another nice post by Craig Walls: Decomposing Answers into Claims for Fact-Checking
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Andrew Lombardi, who helps answer a very salient question: Can Java outperform Rust? (Yes)
• I did a video on server-side request forgery protection in Spring Boot 4.1
• SivaLabs has a nice video on using .env files with Spring Boot
• I also did a video on an orthogonal topic, how to use Mise to set up packages, JDKs, environment variables, etc., projects and platforms with ease. I like this because it's an elegant solution to the precursor to coding: setting up the development environment
• An interesting post: modular monolith vs microservices. Which should you choose?
• SivaLabs has a nice video on using skills to generate code the way you want for Spring-based workloads