Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _This Week in Spring_! I’m _baaaaack_ in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home!

I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting

* Taipei, Taiwan
* Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia
* Seoul, S. Korea
* Singapore
* Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia
* Kuala Lumpur, Bali, and Penang, Malaysia
* Tokyo, Japan

i did public appearances in most of these cities, and it was a lot of fun. Thank you everyone that came out, and I can’t wait to see you again soon!

I feel like I time-traveled. You remember during lockdown there was that odd sense of being stuck in March of 2020? Or perhaps earlier in some countries? I sorta feel like that. I’m back in San Francisco, and it feels like early June and we’ve got the whole summer ahead. But we don’t, do we? It was a fun summer, but I want to make the best use of the dwindling few days in summer as I can!

And on that note, my friends, we’ve got a lot to get into this week, and – if I’m honest – I’m feeling a little clumsy on my desktop ergonomic keyboard after months of using my laptop keyboard exclusively – so let’s dive right into it!

* [A Bootiful Podcast: UL Systems founder and chairman Shigeru Urushibara interviews.. me?]()
* [Mastering PostgreSQL Table Partitioning]()
* [Spring Boot Apps with Kong API Gateway using OpenAPI & Declarative Configuration]()
* [Spring Boot in 10 Minutes | Codaholic]()
* [Spring Tools 4.19.1 released]()
* [couchbase-examples/couchbase-springboot-realworld-example-app: Realworld Demo App using Spring Boot, Spring Data Couchbase]()
* I loved this great answer by Spring legend Oliver Drotbohm on how to [arrange a Spring project, especially in the architectural sense with lots of modules]()
* I had a great discussion with Spring Cloud cofounder and lead Spencer Gibb yesterday about the [new Spring Cloud Gateway based on the Spring MVC.fn style]()
* want a free way to learn Spring Boot, and a cheap path to certification? Check [out the Spring Academy]().
* [Have you registered for SprinOne at VMWare Explore later this month?]()! I’ll see you there!
* Speaking of SpringOne, did you see the [amazing SpringOne _History of Spring_]()?Read More