Join Nikhil Chandrappa from Yugabyte's Ecosystem Engineering team, where they will show you how Spring is evolving to enable building microservices on distributed SQL databases using a real world example. We will look at cloud-native aspects such as how to eliminate the load balancer by using cluster-aware SQL drivers, making discovery of the underlying database topology possible in applications and using reactive programming against SQL using R2DBC in the context of the application. Finally, we will conclude with a summary of the work actively happening in this area and what the future holds.