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

Spring Tips: Spring Tool Suite 4

Engineering | December 04, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this Spring Tips, we'll look at Spring Tool Suite 4, new runtime feedback and the IDE-agnostic language servers that underpin all of it. I'm releasing this Spring Tips installment early, just in time SpringOne Platform 2017 and the big announcements of the day.

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Gateway

Engineering | November 29, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the new API gateway project, Spring Cloud Gateway, to support edge service requirements like rate limiting, circuit breakers, proxying, and more.

This Week in Spring - November 28th, 2017

Engineering | November 28, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco and then off to Austin, TX for the epic G3 Summit. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi. Then, it's straight back to San Francisco for next week's premier agile, ops, apps and cloud-centric event worldwide, SpringOne Platform 2017. Do not miss this! In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at testing in Spring-based applications. Check it out! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller delves deeper into our decision to end first-class JDK 6 support for Spring in this blog post…

This Week in Spring - November 21st, 2017

Engineering | November 21, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you beleive we're less than six weeks away from 2018? Time sure flies when you're having fun! This week I'm in Los Angeles talking to community members and then taking in the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US surrounded by friends and family. Thanksgiving is a chance to reflect on that for which we are thankful. I am sure that I speak for all of us here on the Spring and Pivotal teams when I say that we are thankful for you. Thank you for making this the most amazing, dynamic, exhilarating and interesting community…

This Week in Spring - November 14th 2017

Engineering | November 14, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Casablanca, Morocco for the amazing Devoxx Morocco event talking to developers in the hub of North Africa. Can you believe it's already the middle of November? And can you believe we are less than a month away from the amazing SpringOne Platform event in San Francisco, CA? I hope you're going! Now, without further ado, let's get to it. Spring messaging ninja Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M3 / 2.0.0.M3. The new release improves content-type resolution, support for Apache…

This Week in Spring - November 7th, 2017

Engineering | November 07, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the amazing Devoxx (Belgium) event. I'm co-presenting with my friends Matt Raible and Mark Heckler on progressive web applications and reactive Spring. I'll be joined by a lot of Pivotal and Spring teammates here so make sure to check the schedule. Later this week I'll be doing a joint webinar - Grails for the Spring Boot Developer - with Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown. Then, it's off to Casablanca, Morocco, for the Devoxx MA event. If you're at either event, don't hesitate to say…

Spring Tips: Spring Shell

Engineering | November 01, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at how to use the new old framework you've probably never heard of, Spring Shell! Spring Shell supports the creation of interactive shell-based applications.

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