This Week in Spring features exciting updates and content for developers. Craig Walls continues to provide valuable insights with his Spring AI Recipes, covering running LLMs within the JVM and efficient tool usage. He also explores running local LLMs. DaShaun Carter shares his work on a Spring AI starter for agents.In other news, a Solodev.sk article by Dominik discusses utilizing vertical slices in Spring Boot. The author also released two videos demonstrating how to build native, efficient desktop applications using Spring Boot, JavaFX, GraalVM native images, and Spring Security. These applications offer a compelling alternative to Electron-based solutions.A recent episode of A Bootiful Podcast featured Catherine Edelveis discussing secure Spring Boot images. Additionally, there are articles on managing external configurations with Spring Cloud Config and a recap of new features in Spring Cloud AWS 4.1.1. Finally, Foojay.io published an article on lessons learned from writing a Spring Boot Analyzer.