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 - June 27th, 2023

Engineering | June 27, 2023 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about.

First, yesterday I did a joint presentation with my friend the one the only the amazing Trustin Lee, creator of Netty and lead of the Armeria Project over at LINE corporation. LINE is a super popular social messaging application used a lot in Korea and in Japan. It was a ton of fun collaborating with, and copresenting with, him

This Week in Spring - June 20th, 2023

Engineering | June 20, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Sydney, Australia, talking to customers, koalas, kangaroos, and whoever else will listen! I'll be doing a live presentation, tonight at the Microsoft Reactor here in Sydney. Register now and come join me!

As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get through so let's dive right into it!

This Week in Spring - June 13th, 2023

Engineering | June 13, 2023 | ...

This Month in Spring - June 13th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Taipei, eating delicious food and meeting amazing people in the sweltering weather. How're you doin'? I've got to join a meeting, so I'll make this quick. One quick thing though: Microsoft's Mark Heckler and I are doing a webinar later today - register now and join us - looking at how to take Spring Boot applications to production on Microsoft Azure and with Microsoft technologies. This is going to be a ton of fun, don't miss it!

This Week in Spring - June 6th, 2023

Engineering | June 06, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things as much as possible. In the case of at least one Vue.js application, this meant some major reworking of the codebase. It's also meant rewriting lots of Github Actions with the new best-practices and patterns, which I confess has been painful.

Once everything's fully migrated (soon, I hope!), I think a…

This Week in Spring - May 30th, 2023

Engineering | May 30, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This installment I write on the day of my daughter's High School graduation, an auspicious day indeed! There's a lot to get through this week, though, and I have a graduation to get to, so let's dive right in!

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