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 - August 1st, 2017

Engineering | August 01, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Nashville, TN, for a meetup presentation on Reactive Spring and then it's off to Kansas City, KS for a replay of the same talk. Both times I'll be joined by pal Mark Heckler. If you're in either of those cities, don't miss this! I'm working on the next installments of Spring Tips: what would you like to see covered? Let me know on Twitter on @SpringTipsLive. This week we have a truly massive good many things to look at so let's get started! Spring messaging and integration maestro Artem Bilan just announced…

This Week in Spring - July 25th, 2017

Engineering | July 24, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey talking to customers and speaking at the Spring and Java meetups tonight. I hope you'll join me and we'll talk about cloud native Java! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it! Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 4.3.11. This release includes security updates as well as bug fixes. Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.8, which is mainly a maintenance release and a bugfix release. Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has announced Spring Framework 4.3.10 which…

This Week in Spring - July 18th, 2017

Engineering | July 18, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Crete, Greece, for the epic JCrete un-conference and then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's visits with customers and for the Spring meetup. I hope you'll join me in Istanbul! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration Extension for Hazlecast 1.0.0.GA. This new release features mainly bug fixes and improvements. It also adds support distributed, clustered applications with implementations of HazelcastMessageStore, HazelcastLockRegistry, and HazelcastMetadataStore…

This Week in Spring - July 11th, 2017

Engineering | July 11, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City, Kansas; and Phoenix, Arizona talking to customers and Pivotal partners about all things Spring and Cloud Foundry. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi! We've got a lot to cover this week, so let's get started! Mark Fisher debuted the first look at Spring Cloud Function, an abstraction that brings the function-as-a-service paradigm to your Spring applications. This is a must-read! Spring (big-)Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 GA…

This Week in Spring - July 4th, 2017

Engineering | July 05, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, then let me wish you a happy 4th of July! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.2. This new version improves compatibility with Spring Boot 1.5.4 which in turn brought in a new version of Spring Data. The Spring Framework Guru web portal has an interesting look at what's new in Spring Framework 5! Check it out! I liked this post on Bozho's Tech Blog on setting up the epic Spring Boot Admin for monolithic applications, eschewing some…

This Week in Spring - June 27th, 2017

Engineering | June 27, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago, New York City and Denver talking to Pivotal customers. We've got a lot of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0.RC1. The new release is primarily a bugfix. The post looks forward to Spring for Apache Hadoop 3.0, which will be based on Spring Boot, a Java 8 baseline, Spark 2.0 integration, and Spring Batch 4.0 readers and writers. Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch looks at a lot of the new features in Spring…

This Week in Spring - June 20th, 2017

Engineering | June 20, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Krakow, Poland for the epic Devoxx PL event and then it's off to Luxembourg for the VoxxedDays Luxembourg event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0 RC2. The new release is a major revision of RC1, refactoring the reactive support and path pattern parsing. It introduces JSR 305 based @Nullable / @NonNullApi Spring annotations into the codebase. Spring Data Release Train Kay M4 Released - Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just…

This Week in Spring - June 13th, 2017

Engineering | June 13, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Redmond, hanging out with our friends and Pivotal partner Microsoft talking about Cloud Foundry on Microsoft Azure. As you may know, Microsoft's Azure IaaS platform is the #2 most widely used cloud and it's growing! It's got more datacenters than the other two cloud vendors in more regions (including in Germany and China!) and a huge raft of services that support both Windows and Linux operating systems. There's so much exciting stuff coming up including Azure Stack, which runs Azure on-premise, and the amazing integration between Azure and PCF. I'm looking…

This Week in Spring - June 6th, 2017

Engineering | June 06, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Malaysia and then Singapore where I'll spend time with customers in the financial services world and speak at the Singapore Spring User Group on June 8th. If you're around, come out or say hi! Spring IO Platform lead and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson just announced the Gradle Dependency management plugin 1.0.3 Spring web guru has just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.5 the Baeldung blog has a nice look at Spring Boot and Kotlin Ranga Karanam put together a nice look at building web applications with Spring Boot I liked…

This Week in Spring - May 30th, 2017

Engineering | May 30, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Chicago for the epic Spring Days Chicago and then I'm off to Singapore for VOXXED Singapore. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja has just announced the new Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.4 Spring Cloud Data Flow engineer Gunnar Hillert just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.1 Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR1 I liked Jonas Hecht's post looking at how to run Spring Boot on Docker Windows I loved this post from RedHat engineer Sébastien Blanc on using Keycloak, their…

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