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 31, 2016

Engineering | May 31, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week was a bit crazy, though after a long restful weekend there's a lot of intersting content to invigorate us for the week ahead. I'll be speaking at a meetup on the 16th June, for those near Amsterdam that'd care to join us! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get into it. Remember, the goal of microservices is, ultimately, to go faster and to get to production. To do continuous delivery. A huge part of that has to be moving code from integration and testing to production, automatically, and ideally with no downtime. I…

This Week in Spring - May 24th, 2016

Engineering | May 25, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week's already off to a crazy start. Sunday evening I returned from Kiev, Ukraine, where I spoke at JEEConf. Yesterday, Monday, I gave a talk with my friend Baruch from JFrog at yesterday's JFrog Swampup conference event in Napa, California. Today I'm off to Denver, Colorado for Gluecon, and then off to GOTO Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and I'll finish out the week in Washington DC for customer visits. I can't wait to see you all along the way! I hope you'll register for this upcoming webinar on distributed tracing with the Spring…

This Week in Spring - May 17th, 2016

Engineering | May 17, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in Chennai, India, en route to Bangalore, India for a day of exciting customer meetings and then I'm off to sunny Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO event! Then, this Friday, I'm off to Kiev, Ukraine, for JEEConf. If you're around, as always, don't be shy and say hi!. That said, let's get into it! The BIG news: Spring Cloud Brixton is now available! Get the bits from the Spring Initializr. If you'll permit a little back-patting, I submit that you might get a good feel for what concerns a technology like Spring…

This Week in Spring - May 10th, 2016

Engineering | May 10, 2016 | ...
Auntie Em! Time sure is flying! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Warsaw for a Cloud Native meetup and Krakow, Poland for the spectacular Geecon event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi for Also, some very big news coming! Stay tuned to the cupchino.shop blog tomorrow! Anyway, as usual, we've got a lot to look at so let's get to it! Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.0 RELEASE! This is a big release with a lot of cool stuff! Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform 2.0.4 release Spring…

This Week in Spring - May 3rd, 2016

Engineering | May 04, 2016 | ...
I can't even believe it's May already! STOP THE WORLD I WANT OFF! Well, at least the times are exciting! There's so much cool stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! New sessions are up on the shiny new SpringOne Platform website check it out! In addition to an Adrian Cockcroft keynote, we're got speakers booked from Netflix, Google, Comcast, Express Scripts, Kroger, along with Spring leaders like Juergen Hoeller, Dr. Dave Syer, Rossen Stoyanchev, Oliver Gierke, and of course, yours truly! and join Spring Cloud Data Flow leads Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack for a look at Data Driven…

This Week in Spring - April 26th, 2016

Engineering | April 26, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Budapest, Hungary, for the amazing Craft Conf. This show is a very special show indeed. Special, for me, first in that I'll be joined by industry titans like Adrian Cochroft, Jez Humble, Sam Newman, and Kyle Kingsbury, and in that I'll join two of my friends from Pivotal - Andrew Clay Shafer and Bridget Kromhout (also titans)! I'm so excited to be among these, and many more, that I can hardly contain it and I recommend you consider making the trip if it's convenient, one day, yourself. Now then, we've got a lot to get…

This Week in Spring - April 19th, 2016

Engineering | April 19, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stuttgart and Mainz, Germany and Paris, France, speaking to customers and at the JAX conference, then it's off to Paris, France, to speak at the Devoxx France edition. If you're around in any of these places don't hesitate to reach out I'd love to say hello. Also, tonight, I'll be joining my friends from industry (Daniel Bryant, Markus Eisele, and Simon Maple) for the ZeroTurnaround webinar, Microservices for the Enterprise. There are already more than 3,000 people registered and I hope to see you there, as well! As usual…

SpringOne Platform

Engineering | April 15, 2016 | ...
The Bigger Picture Let's talk about Pivotal. Our ambition is to make business more agile, to reduce the time around the innovation loop; speed is the single biggest advantage an organization can have. Pivotal's main "product" is agility. This translates naturally into technology. Microservices are well-defined, small, easy-to-evolve, independently deployable batches of functionality. They lend themselves to rapid iteration because they're small. Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem make short work of standing up new microservices and applications, and Spring Cloud handles the complexity in…

This Week in Spring - April 12th, 2016

Engineering | April 12, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in wet and wonderful New York City. It's already almost tax-day here in the US! Whew! time is sure flying. Other (markedly more pleasant) annual landmarks will soon be here, including our big SpringOne Platform event, so book your tickets now! Also, I'll be joining my friends Simon Maple, Daniel Bryant, and Markus Eisele for a webinar on microservices on April 19th - join us! It should be fun and - hopefully - interesting! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Data Hopper went GA! This release includes…

1 Stream, 2 Applications, and 3 Dependencies for Spring Cloud Data Flow

Engineering | April 05, 2016 | ...
I just wanted to register here an experience that made me smile yesterday: making the rapidly improving Spring Cloud Data Flow wiggle from (Spring Boot) start(-ers) to service in a matter of minutes! The only pre-requisite is that you have a Redis instance runnning. My Redis instance is running on 127.0.0.1 and it required no further configuration for Spring Boot to find and work with it. We'll use the epic Spring Initializr to make short work of generating our applications. Remember those silly Apple commercials, "There's an App For That?" Nevermind that, there's a checkbox for that! Let's…

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