Explore the key features and hidden gems of Spring Framework 5 in this comprehensive conference talk from Spring I/O 2018. Dive into the native reactive support that enables end-to-end reactive application development, with a focus on reactive data access and infrastructure. Discover the functional and reactive programming models introduced in version 5.0, along with less prominent but equally valuable features. Learn about component styles, annotation-based models, configuration models, and endpoint designs. Gain insights into instance suppliers, beam definition customizers, and Kotlin integration. Compare Spring MVC with Web Blocks and understand functional web endpoint registration. Explore null ability, data class binding, and component indexing. Get a glimpse of upcoming features in the 5.1 release and enhance your understanding of Spring Framework's latest capabilities.