Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention. That little tidbit's blowing my mind! Yesterday, by the way, was the first of April, and the tenth birthday of the first generally available 1.0 version of Spring Boot, released on the 1st of April, 2024. Happy birthday, Spring Boot! Tomorrow, by the way, I'll have a brand new not-to-be-missed video on Java 22 over on our humble YouTube channel, do not miss that! Alrighty, my friends, we've got a ton to get through (and I've already put a few things on your plate for tomorrow…), so let's dive into it! SpringOne is back! Save the date! We'll be there, in Las Vegas, from August 26th to 29th, 2024. We'd love to see you there! And, we'd love it if you submitted a talk! I dig this Javarevisited blog (paywalled, alas..) which looks at distributed tracing in a Spring Boot application. Check out the discussion over on Software Engineering Daily with the Spring team's Ryan Morgan and Dr. Mark Pollack where they talk about Spring AI. Speaking of Spring AI, want to learn more about it? Check out our new Spring Academy course on Spring AI by Spring legends Craig Walls (author of Spring in Action, no less!) and Rob McNees! I love Anthony Ikeda's awesome look at getting started with Spring…Read More