Hi, Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August 1, 2023??? Me either.

As I write this, I'm preparing some of my contributions for SpringOne at VMWare Explore 2023, happening next month in lovely Las Vegas, NV. Have you registered yet?

I'm working at the VMWare Tokyo office as I write this; I'm here for meetings and a JJUG appearance. My friends, there's a ton to get done today, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more
• The best way to use Testcontainers from your Spring Boot tests! ? info.michael-simons.eu
• Spring Cloud Kilburn (2022.0.4) is now available](https://spring.io/blog/2023/07/28/)
• Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 are now available
• Hi Spring fans! I was lucky enough to do a (mostly virtual) Japanese Java User Group appearance last night here in the land of the rising sun, Tokyo, Japan! You can watch it here .
• Baeldung's updated their coverage of Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, too.
• Interesting tutorial covering simple username-and-password based authentication mechanisms in Spring Security
• The Kotlin dev portal continues to get new and nice stuff to read, including this one: Add database support for Spring Boot projects in Kotlin
• I love this: Going Serverless With Spring Cloud Function, AWS Lambda Java 17 Support, and SnapStart
• This blog is fire: a modern way to efficiently execute concurrent network requests in Java. Amazing. The subtitle? Java server applications using virtual threads are clearly more performant than Node.js