Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it's off to Lima, Peru. It's figuring to be quite a week!

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

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.
• Explore a newly-generated project on start.spring.io
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.M1 is available.
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.M3 Released!
• I love seeing that DICKS sporting-goods is experiencing such great success with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• I dig the new Source{d} release; seems like an interesting option to enable oversight over the entire Software Defined Lifecycle
• Have you booked your tickets to SpringOne Platform in Austin this year?
• https://twitter.com/springcloud/status/1148363965833056257
• Nice post introducing Application Integration with Apache Camel in terms of Spring Boot, of course.
• Rohit Kelapure has a nice post on what it takes to transform an application to a modern cloud-native application
• Check out this great talk by ING on their use of Spring Boot and Kafka