Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

How're you all doing? Me? I'm doing swell! I was so happy to celebrate my tenth anniversary on the Spring team on the 2nd of August, 2020. It has been an amazing run so far and I am so excited about the continued adventure! A huge part of the reason I love this job is because of you, dear community. Thank you. You can learn more about the story so far in this blog.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Josh Lock on supply chain security, Docker trust, TUF, and more
• Confluent put on yet another great stream on Spring Boot and Apache Kafka
• I am doing a two-day, online, Cloud Native Java workshop for the legendary YOW! conference. Please register now!
• Check out Michael Hunger's Twitch stream tomorrow wherein he'll explore the brand-new Spring Data Neo4J 6 (including the reactive support) on Wednesday, 11am CEST, 7pm AEST, 2:30 IST, 9am GMT.
• Check out This Month in RabbitMQ, June 2020 Recap
• Check out the latest release of the Cloud Native Petclinic. This Petclinic is ready-to-deploy on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes and demonstrates a fully-featured decomposed microservices-based application.
• Check out this event Developing Event-Driven Microservices using Spring Cloud Stream coming tomorrow!
• Creating a function for consuming data and generating Spring Cloud Stream Sink applications
• Destination VMworld – App Modernization Channel
• Have you listened to this fun episode of a Bootiful Podcast with Tim Pepper?
• I loved this: VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger shares on how VMware Tanzu will shape the future of software development on the newest episode of the Looking Ahead podcast
• Integrating JSON Schema validation in Spring using a custom HandlerMethodArgumentResolver
• Java Is a 90s Kid. “There are only two kinds of languages…" by Ben Evans from the 97 Things book about Java. (NB: I also contributed an article to the book!)
• My amazing first manager Adam Fitzgerald in my ten year anniversary on the Spring team
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.6.0 Released
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR7 has been released
• Spring HATEOAS 1.1.1.RELEASE is out!
• Spring Tools 4.7.1 released
• The Lettuce 6 Redis driver goes RC1. Client-side caching, Push message listeners, and GraalVM Native config files, and more.
• VMworld 2020 Savings on Certification Exam Vouchers & Prep
• [Want training on how to build Spring Boot-based applications? Check out the Spring Boot: Developer module](https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/1290464826456760323)
• This post has nothing to do with Spring per-se but it is well-worth your study if you're using something like Axon to build a CQRS-centric system: What they don’t tell you about event sourcing, by Hugo Rocha