Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Time sure is flying! We’ve got so much to get into this week. Can you believe we’re staring down 2017? We’ve got so much to cover so let’s get to it!

• More SpringOne Platform 2016 talks are available, and if you’re interested in how Spring and reactive programming are coming together you’ll want to hear directly from Rossen about where the team is starting its journey!
• Anyone that is working in microservices, should watch this amazing SpringOne Platform 2016 replay showing us how Oliver Gierke applies Domain Driven Design concepts to creating REST APIs.
• be sure to check out this blog and the corresponding webinar from our very own Stephane Nicoll and Vaadin’s Matti Tahvonen as they look at how to build a good looking web application user interface that integrates seamlessly with your backend Spring services.
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson has just released Spring IO Platform Athens SR1 featuring lots of updates.
• Spring Data Geode lead John Blum just released Spring Data Geode 1.0.0.INCUBATING-RELEASE Released.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.2.0.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1 RC1 Released.
• last week, in another installment of the Spring Tips series, we looked at how to build messaging-based microservices using Spring Cloud Stream.
• Spring Data Geode lead John Blum just released Spring Data Geode 1.0.0.INCUBATING-RELEASE Released.
• want to learn about event-sourcing? Take a look at this groovy recorded Google Hangout with Jakub Pilimon.
• Spring Integration and Spring AMQP lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP and Spring Integration Core & Java DSL Maintenance Releases Available
• Spring framework lead and maestro Juergen Hoeller just announced
  Spring Framework 5.0 M3.
• Create a new Spring Cloud Config Server with this powerful new Atomist generator.
• I’ve heard good things about Alvaro Sanchez’s Grails Spring Security REST plugin.
• Nice to see Spring Boot retain its spot in the Adopt column in the latest installment of the Thougthworks Radar.
• this Japanese-language post looks like it does a good job introducing Spring Security.
• this isn’t Spring-specific at all, but given that we’ve got a lot of other content this week on event-sourcing and bounded contexts and microservices, you might appreciate Russ Miles’ latest musings on event-sourcing.
• be sure to join this webinar from Tino Tereshko (big data lead, Google) and Joshua McKenty (senior director, platform engineering at Pivotal) on how to use Google’s BigQuery API from within Pivotal Cloud Foundry running on Google Compute Engine.