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This Month in Spring – April 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Month in Spring! And what a month it's been since we last spoke!

I'm writing from beautiful Paris, France, ahead of the spectacular Devoxx France event. Having attended these events over the years, it's exciting to see how they've grown, especially now that this year's Devoxx France event is rumored to be even larger than Devoxx Belgium—which, apart from SpringOne and Spring I/O, was my favorite event last year. What a milestone! The Devoxx series—including Devoxx US, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, Devoxx Poland, Devoxx Morocco, and Devoxx Ukraine—were once new and novel, untested, and now they're major fixtures in the developer community. Well, except Devoxx US, which, alas, is now defunct. Last year's Devoxx Belgium was possibly my favorite conference experience, rivaled only by SpringOne and Spring I/O. There was an electric atmosphere filled with optimism and engaging conversations. The content was impeccable. In related news, Devoxx (the brand, the company, etc.) just introduced a new local in-IDE AI plugin called Devoxx Genie; it's truly amazing what good stuff is coming from Devoxx these days! I’m thrilled to be here, and I really appreciated connecting with the community.

And, while I appreciate the opportunity to collaborate, I really needed more community. So, last night, I presented at the recently revived vJUG event! What a privilege!

Last week I participated in the huge Google Cloud Next keynote in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was an absolute privilege to be there, and possibly on the largest stage I've ever been on, too! After that, it was onward and upward to the always-amazing Devnexus event in Atlanta, GA, where I saw a bunch of friends and had a great time, as always.

And before that, well, friends, I'm amazed that we’re already more than 25% through the year. April is an amazing month for me. It's the first month of springtime! April 1st is also the 10th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, GA. Happy birthday, Spring Boot!

And, of course, just before that, on March 24th, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Spring Framework 1.0 GA. Happy birthday, Spring Framework!

And, of course, the content parade keeps on keepin' on! Have y'all checked out the Spring Tips playlist? In recent weeks, I've done videos on GRPC, the Spring Expression Language, had a great discussion with Spring founders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller, the newly released Java 22, Distributed Jobs with JobRunr, the JetBrains Exposed ORM for Kotlin, Spring Batch Remote Partitioning, a whole three-part series on the Spring Authorization Server, Spring Boot Testjars, the Spring Health Assessment, and Spring AI, among other things. There's bound to be something for you to enjoy.

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! And, speakers, we need you! Submit your talks, today!

Alright, friends, we've got a ton of stuff to get into this month, so let's dive right in!

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