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My friends! Won't you join fellow Spring Developer Advocate Mario Gray and myself for a look at "Bootiful" Testing in our upcoming San Diego Java User Group talk?

I just had the privilege of visiting some customers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and while I was there I took some time to visit the compound that housed the late musician Prince 's production facilities (studios, offices, and more) and personal residence, Prince was a musical legend and a personal hero, so it was an amazing experience to visit that place. Sadly, photos are prohibited within the compount itself, so I don't have much to share here except that you should visit the place if you have the opportunity. It's humbling. Think about it - Prince built it in the mid '80s for TEN million dollars, out in the middle of nowhere! The place is massive!

I had the privilege of speaking at the Swedish Java conference, JFokus 2018, in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden. The conference is an amazing show because the community there tends to be enthusiastic and reflects a very diverse set of interests. I loved seeing old friends including JFokus founder Mattias Karlsson, Pratik Patel, Mark Heckler, Simon Ritter, and a million others besides! At the conference I had a reactive microservices workshop and a one-hour presentation.

I had the privilege of meeting with the master of messages, Confluent CEO and Kafka-creator Jay Kreps to talk to him about the Spring ecosystem and its support for Kafka and to talk to him about what I think of as one of the most exciting things to happen to the cloud, Confluent's hosted, managed, and ready-to-scale Kafka service.

I had a lot of fun talking to Pivotal storytellers and community marketing maestros Dormain Drewitz and Jeff Kelly on the Pivotal Insights podcast talking about all things cloud native, Spring and Cloud Foundry in the developer catnip episode. Subscribe, Listen, and enjoy!

I finished my visit to Germany and jumped on plane to Oahu, Hawaii, connecting through San Francisco. LavaOne was the first (and hopefully not the last!) conference I've had the privilege of visiting in Oahu, Hawaii. It was stunning! I admire anybody who's willing to listen to me (and any of the infinitely better other speakers) yammer on inside a conference hall when paradise lay just beyond the sliding glass door. Madness! These are some dedicated technologists! It was great to see and hang with the amazing technical community and to see old friends like Graal project ninja Chris Talinger, Java community legend Sharat Chandler, JRuby project lead and legend Charles Nutter, and Java EE community legend David Delabassee.

On the 10th of this month I visited the Java User Group in Munster, Germany, and had the privilege of presenting for three hours in a cold winter January evening to a full room full of passionate Java developers. It was the first time I got to show a lot of new, reactive features in Spring Boot 2.0 and Spring Cloud Finchley. I'm a big fan of anybodydy who chooses to stay late on a weekday and learn about the things I love to learn about, so thank you, Munster, for an amazing experience!

(2017-12-15) Bootiful Banners

(2017-12-04) Spring Tool Suite 4

(2017-11-29) Spring Cloud Gateway

(2017-11-22) Bootiful Testing

(2017-11-15) Spring Boot Build Plugin