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This Week in Spring - September 1st, 2026

This Week in Spring highlights recent community contributions and developments. The author is attending several conferences in Oslo, Amsterdam, and Kansas City, emphasizing the importance of the vibrant community. A chart is presented as a guide to learning Spring concepts. An interesting comparison is made between Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ. Several releases of Spring Modulith are announced, including versions 2.2.M1, 2.1.1, 2.0.8, and 1.4.13. A series on building multitenant systems continues, with a video focusing on data partitioning. A recent Bootiful Podcast episode featured Joe Grandja discussing Spring Security and OAuth. Multiple articles and recipes focus on Spring AI. Rodolfo Mendes wrote about building Spring AI-powered agents. Baeldung shared a post on using Anthropic's Claude models with Spring AI. Craig Walls provided several Spring AI recipes covering tool reuse, improved search with hybrid search, better RAG results through re-ranking, and hypothetical document embeddings for RAG.