Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's nearly April? Time sure flies when you're having fun! There's a lot of good stuff to get to this week, particularly around the nascent and just announced Spring Native project which people seem to love, so let's get to it!

• The amazing Andy Clement and I presented on Spring Native and GraalVM at JRush last week. Here's the recording
• A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time. Urushibara-san is a great technologist and an even better person.
• A neat Infoq article on Spring Native
• I like this German-language article on Spring Boot and container images called Container-Images: Abschied vom Dockerfile
• How to Debug Your Spring Native Applications
• I tried Spring Native for GraalVM and I like it! - YouTube
• I’ll be speaking at the Cloud Conf Day
• The video from our recent SpringOne Tour 2021 day 1 ensemble performance, #Booternetes, is now up! There's a lot here so make some coffee and enjoy!
• Testing the file upload API in Spring Boot
• Using Elasticsearch in Spring Boot