Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished spending a wonderful afternoon with customers and now I'm pouring through all the wonderful new content for this week. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• The Java at Microsoft blog has a nice recap of what’s new in Azure Spring Cloud
• Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.0.M1 Released
• Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 Released
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1 are available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.8.RELEASE, 2.2.2.RELEASE and 2.3.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Cloud Greenwich Service Release 5 (SR5) is available.
• "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim
• This is a very useful reminder on how we name Spring Cloud releases
• Happy 5th Birthday, CloudFoundry Foundation
• The new JRebel 2020 report has some interesting findings including, but not limited to, the fact that Spring Boot (82%! Nothing else even matters or comes close, staying in the 1% range...) dominates the majority of workloads, followed by DropWizard, and that PostgreSQL is the dominant database.
• Greg Turnquist does an epic job introducing the the Fundamentals of Spring Boot in this YouTube video
• Tom Prior has a nice post on easy boarding with Kotlin and Cloud Foundry
• I love this post demonstrating how to do end-to-end testing with TestContainer and Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1.
• This is a cool post on using Spring Integration to manipulate RSS feed data and write to files
• Check out the Spring Cloud App Broker community channel on Gitter.im