Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - April 3, 2018

Engineering | April 03, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in beautiful Dallas, TX, for the Spring One Tour Dallas event which is, like so many of the other cities already, utterly and completely sold out! What a crowd! And, so, without further ado, let's get to it! Spring Framework Juergen Hoeller has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are now available. Check out the PR supporting Pact v3 in Spring Cloud Contract.next. Now would be a good time to try it out and feedback! PCF 2.1 and the Quest for a One Pizza Ops Team Check out this shiny new Kotlin DSL for Spring Data Cassandra! Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring - March 27th, 2018

Engineering | March 27, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm hanging out in sunny San Francisco talking to local customers and working on more installments of the next season of Spring Tips. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Check this Pivotal showcase on object detection with Spring Cloud Stream. Spring Security SAML DSL lead Filip Hanik has just announced the 1.0.5.RELEASE of our SAML DSL project. This release works against Spring Security SAML 1.0.4.RELEASE. This release adds a simple Java configuration option to your existing Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring - March 20th, 2018

Engineering | March 21, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans, and welcome to the first day of the Spring season! This week I'm in San Francisco visiting some customers and just hanging out, working on new Spring Tips installments, enjoying the amazing weather. As if today wasn't exciting enough, Java 10 also shipped today! I know that all seems like enough already, but read on as we have a lot of good stuff this week! We want your feedback on this Spring Cloud Contract proposal to support fetching stubs over different protocols Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Gunnar Hillert has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4.0. The new release…

This Week in Spring - March 13th, 2018

Engineering | March 13, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in blizzard-besieged Boston, Massachusetts, for the epic Spring One Tour Boston event. Unfortunately, due to this crazy snow storm / blizzard, the event's been postponed one day as we all grapple with the weather. Hope you were able to join the Spring Boot 2.0 launch webinar! If not the replay will be available here and don't forget to check out the launch blog! Snow or no snow! The show must go on, at least here on the Spring blog, so without further ado: The Reactor team is looking for a motivated new…

This Week in Spring - Tuesday March 6th, 2018

Engineering | March 05, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this it's early morning Tuesday in Sydney, Australia, where I've been visiting with some of Pivotal's amazing customers, and I'm now preparing for my flight to Dubai, in six short hours, where I'll visit some more of Pivotal's amazing customers. Later this week I'll be in Bangalore, India, for the amazing Agile India conference, and then - early next week on Tuesday - I'll be in Boston, MA for the first SpringOne Tour event. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi, as usual! This week we've got a lot of…

This Week in Spring - February 27th, 2018

Engineering | February 28, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! This is a super exciting week! Spring Boot 2.0 is coming! Keep your eyes on the Spring Initializr or you'll miss it! :D Today I was at the Okta Iterate conference talking to developers who are using Spring and Okta, thanks to my buddy Matt Raible. High point? I got to meet Jeff Atwood, the co-creator of Stack Overflow! Tomorrow, I begin a whirlwind tour over the next two weeks. First, it's off to Glasgow, Scotland; then Sydney, Australia; then Dubai; then Bangalore, India (for Agile India 2018); and then it's off to Boston…

This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2018

Engineering | February 20, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm speaking at the San Diego JUG with Mario Gray on testing with Spring. Then I'm off to the IBM Index conference here in San Francisco where I'll be talking about building reactive microservices, and then it's off to Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, where I'll be talking about Kotlin and testing. I hope you'll join me and say hi if you're nearby. Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.4. Check out this whitepaper on building flexible Spring Cloud Data Flow data pipelines It's now even easier to use…

This Week in Spring - February 13th, 2018

Engineering | February 13, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it looks like i'll be in New York City and San Francisco for the balance of the week. We've got a lot to cover so without further ado so let's get started. Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has just put together a very nice post on using Spring Cloud Contract in a polyglot world Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Streamm Elmhurst M4 / 2.0.0.M4. Spring Integration legend Artem Bilan just…

This Week in Spring - February 6th, 2018

Engineering | February 06, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stockholm, Sweden, for the epic (and snowy) JFokus event, then it's off to Frankfurt, Germany for the OOP show. If you're at either event, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi on Twitter (@starbuxman)! Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.GA is here! A cross-cloud (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes) option for continuous delivery/updating/rollback/query of Spring Boot-based applications. Spring Cloud Skipper underpins the recently added support in Spring Cloud Data Flow for versioning and rolling back stream definitions, but…

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