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 - May 23rd, 2017

Engineering | May 23, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it. Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself. Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2 Simon…

This Week in Spring - May 16th, 2017

Engineering | May 16, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Munich for the Spring Meetup; Berlin for OSDC; Krakow for Geecon; Barcelona for Spring I/O, and Eindhoven for NextBuild. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2GA!, including the server editions for local, Kubernetes, YARN and Cloud Foundry. This new release is packed with good stuff. I particularly like the support for composed tasks, which lets me orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. This is ideal for…

This Week in Spring - May 8th, 2017

Engineering | May 09, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Austin, Texas for OSCON; London, UK, for Devoxx UK; and Nice, France for RivieraDev! If you're around, I'd love to talk to you so don't hesitate to say hi! Spring Framework 5 RC1 is now available! InfoQ has a nice post on the new Spring Vault release Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0M4 is now available Spring Cloud ninja Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR7 has been released I liked this short-but-sweet look at the Pivotal Cloud Cache on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, in terms of a Spring Boot application Periodic…

This Week in Spring - May 2nd, 2017

Engineering | May 02, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Perth, Australia, for the amazing YOW! West conference, talking to developers about building cloud native Java applications. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! I'm super excited about our first Spring Days event, on May 30-31, in Chicago. I'll be there along with other Spring gurus like Eddu Melendez, Anupama Pradhan, and Michael Minella. I hope you'll join us! Spring IO lead Any Wilkinson has announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR5. He also announced Spring IO Platform…

This Week in Spring - April 25th, 2017

Engineering | April 25, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, at the 10th edition of the great, Great Indian Developer Summit! Then, I'm off to Perth, Australia, for YOW! West. If you're around, say hi!. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0! This new release includes smarter Asciidoctor integration, support for request-and-response snippets, and better support for large and complex payloads. At the same time, Andy also released Spring REST Docs 1.1.3, a maintenance release…

This Week in Spring - April 18th, 2017

Engineering | April 18, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA, at DevOps Days Atlanta, and Boston for the Agile Tech Alliance conference. If you're around for either I'd love to see you - say hi! Don't miss me, Spring Team members, and community speakers at the upcoming Spring Days Chicago, New York and Atlanta events! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! The WebFlux functional reactive support in Spring Framework 5.0 is really catching on! I particularly enjoyed this post called Spring: Your Next Microframework Baeldung has a great post…

Spring Tips: Season 2 Recap

Engineering | April 12, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! We've now finished two seasons - 11 episodes and a recap post each - of Spring Tips. I'm going to take a little while to dream up some more content and, before you know it, we'll be back at it again! I'm always interested in hearing proposed topics so if you have some, please, by all means, shout it out loud to me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email ([email protected]). The motivations for me in doing these Spring Tips are: revisit traditional topics in light of Spring Boot and highlight parts of the amazing Spring ecosystem that, for one reason or another, don't get enough…

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2017

Engineering | April 11, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M3. The new release includes an integration test framework, speed improvements, support for the Spring 5 reactive WebClient, retroactive restoration of file trees when using the (S)FTP and AWS S3 inbound adapters, a smarter SOAP web-services gateway, and much more. Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.2.0 and 1.1.4 Andy Wilkinson just debuted a look at the new Gradle Spring Boot 2.0 plugin in last week's Spring Tips I…

This Week in Spring - April 4th, 2017

Engineering | April 04, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, UK; Paris, France (for the epic Devoxx France event where I'll be speaking with my buddy Matt Raible) and Stuttgart, Germany, where I'll be speaking at conferences and to customers! If you're around, don't hesitate to say "hi"! the new release of Spring Tool Suite is jam-packed with new features supporting Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Check the New and Noteworthy and get it while it's hot! (I've just gotten a new laptop, so I'm doing that right now, too!) last week in the latest installment of Spring Tips I…

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