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 - January 30th, 2018

Engineering | January 31, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Los Angeles and Chicago and now I'm in San Francisco, taking meetings with Pivotal ecosystem folks and customers. We've got an incredibly busy week's worth of stuff ahead of us, so let's get to it! Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini has announced that Reactor Bismuth-SR5 is out with fixes, Reactive Streams 1.0.2, Netty 4.1.20 and a few new cool features there Check out this post by Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja on what the future of OAuth 2 support in Spring is Spring Security lead Rob Winch…

This Week in Spring - January 23rd, 2018

Engineering | January 23, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week In Spring. This week I'm in Los Angeles (warm!) talking to customers and then it's off to Chicago (not warm!). There's so much good stuff to cover this week so let's get to it! In PCF 2.0, the application runtime is now joined by an enterprise-grade Kubernetes service, called Pivotal Container Service, and a new Functions-as-a-Service offering, Pivotal Function Service. Pivotal's Jared Ruckle joins Jeff and Dormain for a look at PCF 2.0 in this new podcast Spring Cloud Sleuth now integrates with Brave and it's an exciting time for…

This Week in Spring - January 16th, 2018

Engineering | January 17, 2018 | ...
Aloha! This week I'm in sunny Honolulu for the first annual LavaOne conference. If you're not here, you should be! The show is amazing, enjoys 50% female to male audience attendance, the speakers are world-class (well, except yours truly, but don't tell them that..) and the location is pretty hard to beat! That said, nothing gives me more pleasure than saddling up to a table with a laptop, some green tea, sunglasses and sunscreen lotion and checking in on the community. This week's been a heckuva week indeed! Lot's of great stuff so let's get to it! Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud…

This Week in Spring - January 9th, 2017

Engineering | January 09, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to Germany where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group in Münster on Wednesday night. Then, it's off to Solingen for a Cloud Native day on the 12th (this Friday) where I'll be presenting all afternoon - register now! And, if you're closer to the Pacific ocean than the Atlantic ocean, join me next Monday in Hawaii and we'll talk about all things Spring at the very promising LavaOne conference. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. There's new support for auto-configuring the Reactor…

This Week in Spring (7th Anniversary Edition) - January 2nd, 2017

Engineering | January 03, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope you had a wonderful, safe and fruitful new year celebration. This is the first roundup of the new year and so it is also the 7th year anniversary of my starting this column. Every Tuesday, without fail (come holiday, sick-day, flights or frights!), since the first week of January 2011, I've put together this roundup and it has been, and continues to be, an honor. As usual, I'm always happy to have feedback and suggestions from you, the most amazing community ever! Don't hesitate to reach me on Twitter (@starbuxman…

This Year in Spring - 2017

Engineering | December 27, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another, albeit very special, installment of This Week in Spring! This is the last installment before 2018 and so we'll take the opportunity to review, as we always do in the last installment of the year, this very exciting year in Spring and its ecosystem. Let me, on behalf of the Spring and larger Pivotal team, to be the first to wish you and yours a heartfelt happy and safe New Year! Let's first look at some of the major trends that defined 2017. We've got a lot to cover! Spring Framework 5 and Reactive Programming - this year we released Spring Framework 5.…

This Week in Spring - December 19th, 2017

Engineering | December 20, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from London where I spent Monday talking to Pivotal customers and helping teams build software in terms of Spring. Now I'm home for the holidays. Can you believe we're only a few weeks away from 2018!? Where has the time gone! Chanukah, Christmas and Boxing Day will all be over and Kwanzaa will have started before next week's installment of This Week in Spring, so on behalf of the Spring team and Pivotal as a whole, let me wish you the warmest and happiest of holidays! We've got a lot to tide you over if…

This Week in Spring, December 12th, 2017

Engineering | December 12, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm still reeling from the incredible, larger-and-better-than-ever SpringOne Platform 2017 event last week! Ouch! My brain... This week I'm speaking to customers and am presenting at two User Groups (in Atlanta, GA and St. Louis, MO) on testing and all things Spring with my new teammate Mario Gray (@mariogray)! Join us. This Sunday, it's off to London for a few days customer visits. If you're around, don't hesitate to say hello (@starbuxman). Last week, in the final Spring Tips installment for this third season, I…

This Week in Spring - December 5th, 2017

Engineering | December 06, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to This Week in Spring from the premier JVM-language event SpringOne Platform 2017! There is a massive amount of stuff to cover, especially in light of SpringOne Platform, so let's get to it! Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Finchley M5 Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert just announced the first previews of Spring Tool Suite 4 and the new IDE-agnostic language servers. Also, I did a special (and early!) Spring Tip that looked at these topics. Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0 Dr. Dave Syer has updated…

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