Explore a comprehensive conference talk from Spring I/O 2018 that delves into Spring Session 2, presented by Vedran Pavić. Learn about the management of user sessions in a consistent and application container-neutral manner, including support for clustered sessions, RESTful API integrations, WebSocket sessions, and Spring Security. Discover the transition from Spring Session 1.x's focus on Servlet API to 2.x's support for reactive programming through Spring WebFlux integration. Gain practical insights through demonstrations on extending Spring Session with custom session data stores while leveraging existing infrastructure. Access accompanying resources such as slides and GitHub repository for further study. The 51-minute presentation covers topics including project modules, Spring Web flag support, reference manual, code improvements, repositories, migration strategies, and custom session repositories, concluding with a final demonstration.