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 - October 11, 2016

Engineering | October 11, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already almost mid October and I can't believe we're almost in 2017! Time is sure flying quickly! It's an honor that today at the JAX London event, the JAX community voted Spring Boot as most innovative contribution to the Java ecosystem. I'm sure I speak for the whole Spring team when I say, Thank You very much! Martin Lippert just announced Spring Tool Suite 3.8.2 featuring smarter integration with the Spring Initializr and updates to Eclipse Neon 1 as well as bugfixes. I published the first installment of what I hope will be a…

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2016

Engineering | October 05, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at so let's get to it! Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security LDAP 2.2RC1 Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration and Spring AMQP release candidates; get the bits now! Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just released Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.M1 Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke announced Spring Data Hopper SR4 and Spring Data Gosling SR6 Spring Statemachine lead Janne Valkealahti just announced Spring Statemachine 1.2.0M1 I liked this GR8Conf talk by…

This Week in Spring - September 27, 2016

Engineering | September 27, 2016 | ...
Wow! It's already almost October! This year has sure gone by quickly! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in the studio with Phil Webb recording the next installment of our Livelessons series on building Microservices with Spring Boot. It's been a lot of fun so far and we've only just begun! Tonight, I hope you'll join me for Cloud Native Java on the vJUG's worldwide and live event going on in timezones all around the world! We've got so much to cover, so let's get to it! Spring lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0.M2, another major step on…

This Week in Spring - September 20, 2016

Engineering | September 20, 2016 | ...
Hello world! Since we last talked, I've been in multiple cities in China, including Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, talking to customers and community members alike. It's fascinating to see what our amazing customers in China do with our technologies in the hypercompetitive Chinese market. And, tasty! Spring Cloud Camden is almost here! Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Camden RC1, which in turn includes a lot of improvements and a really cool new module, Spring Cloud Contract Spring for Apache Kafka lead Artem Bilan just announced…

This Week in Spring - September 13, 2016

Engineering | September 13, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an amazing week here in China, hanging out with Alibaba and Huawei, bringing the Spring. This week it's off to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong! Our pal Pieter Humphrey has been busy this week getting the SpringOne Platform 2016 videos up and online for us to enjoy so there's a lot of good stuff this week! Thanks Pieter! Want see Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and live demo their way through Spring Cloud Data Flow on September 29th? Reserve your seat now! Want to learn what's new in Spring Framework 4.…

This Week in Spring - September 6th, 2016

Engineering | September 06, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China where I spoke at the ginormous Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai and where I'll be working with Alibaba and Huawei for a week or so. I'll also be speaking at the Hangzhou Java User Group, too. (Can you believe we're already in September?? Seriously blown away! 2017 is just around the corner!) I'm also, technically, on vacation, so I'll keep this post to a minimum! :) Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced Spring REST Docs 1.1.2 Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just…

This Week in Spring - August 30th, 2016

Engineering | August 30, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in San Francisco, (where I live and) where I addressed the Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Now it's off to beautiful China to bring some Spring and Pivotal (and, maybe, take a little vacation!) As usual, we have a lot to get to so let's! Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has just announced that Spring Web Services 2.3.1 and 2.4.0 are now available Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced that Spring Cloud Camden M1 is now available Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Thomas Risberg just announced that Spring Cloud…

This Week in Spring - August 23, 2016

Engineering | August 23, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC (for the NYC Java SIG), Austin and San Francisco (for the Silicon Valley Spring User Group) talking to customers and doing meetups! We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get to it! Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform from Netflix built on Spring Boot. It supports a build-and-bake pipeline and works naturally with Spring Boot and various cloud platforms. It's enjoyed contributions from Microsoft, Google and Pivotal. In this post, Spring ninja Greg Turnquist introduces Spring Cloud Spinnaker 1.0.0.M…

This Week in Spring - August 16th, 2016

Engineering | August 16, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Since we last spoke I've presented at conferences and to customers in London, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore - where I am now. Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be speaking at the Singapore Spring Meetup - join me! It's been quite a few days! Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch has done another great post looking at Spring Cloud Vault Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.2 Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.3 Check out this deck to learn about how Spring Boot is used at PayPal I…

This Week in Spring - August 9th, 2016

Engineering | August 09, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm recovering from a crazy awesome week at SpringOne Platform while visiting customers here in summer-time London. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! the IntelliJ IDEA folks have updated their coverage on Spring there were several wrapup blogs from last week's SpringOne Platform event, including the two we published on this very blog for day 1 and day 2 and the posts on Pivotal's main blog for day 1, day 2, day 3, and final call while we're at the Pivotal blog, those of you wondering about Blockchain on Cloud Foundry…

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