Hi, Spring fans! Happy Pi (π) day! And, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's pouring cats and dogs here in San Francisco! The news is talking about atmospheric rivers; I don't know what that means but I don't know that I want to find out. Anyway, all that to say: I'm glad as always for an opportunity to stay indoors and learn. We've got a lot to review this week so let's dive right into it!

• I did a video for our friends at Jetbrains on the IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel and people seem to like it. Perhaps you will too? Bootiful Spring Boot 3 - YouTube In it, I look at just some of the amazing new features in Spring Boot 3.
• The SpringOne@Explore Calls for Paper is Open!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Google Cloud Java Advocate Aaron Wanjala
• API First Development with Spring Boot and OpenAPI 3.0
• Announcing Spring Cloud GCP 4.0 | Google Cloud Blog
• Build a CRUD Rest API in Java using Spring boot, Hibernate, Postgres, Docker and Docker Compose
• Did you know Java now has records? And that records are amazingly flexible? Custom Constructor in Java Records
• My buddy Francesco did a video - from the perspective of someone who hasn't worked with Java all that much - on how to build a CRUD application in Java. Java CRUD Rest API using Spring Boot, Hibernate, Postgres, Docker and Docker Compose Very interesting, and worth a read!
• This is an interesting look at the Maven Reactor. Nice! I think demystifying some of this stuff will make Maven a lot more approachable to a lot of people.
• Release Vaadin Flow 24.0.0 · vaadin/flow Congrats to the Vaadin team on their new release of Vaadin, which is also compatible with Spring Boot 3.
• Interesting: what if you want to TRUNCATE a table in Spring Data JPA?
• Testing Spring OAuth2 Access-Control
• This isn't strictly speaking related to Spring, but it's very useful as a diagnostic aid, either way. It's how to use jOOQ’s DiagnosticsConnection to detect N+1 Queries – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
• Learn about #SpringBoot tooling in #VisualStudioCode from experts at Microsoft and VMware. Get the Spring Boot Dashboard for Visual Studio Code here