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

Building Native Images with GraalVM and Spring Native on Apple's M1 Architecture

Engineering | March 23, 2022 | ...
It finally happened! They did it! They did it just in time for me to get on the road and start building applications on the road with my shiny new laptop, too! JOY!! Oracle and the GraalVM team released GraalVM and the GraalVM native image capability for Apple M1! I've been waiting for this day for so, so, so long! I bought the first Apple M1 the day of the announcement way back in 2020 (does anybody remember that far back? That was, meteorologically speaking, the early pandemic period). Apple's M1 devices are insanely fast, energy-efficient beasts of machines that run circles around all but…

This Week in Spring - March 22nd, 2022 (Java 18 Edition!)

Engineering | March 22, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Spring time is here! Astrologically and meteorlogically, speaking, of course. I love this season. Longer days, greener grass, bluer skies, and more. Next week, my family and I are headed to Hawaii for some much-needed R&R while my daughter has a week off from school. (It's hard to believe she might be going to college in another state in 18 short months! We need all the family vacations we can get together! T_T) As always, we've got a lot to look at today, so let's dive right into it! First thing: Java 18 was released…

This Week in Spring - March 15th, 2022

Engineering | March 15, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a good amount of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in! Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0 In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, an amazing new web framework from Vaadin A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a really nice look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves" Kai Tödter announced that he's released version 1.3.0 of JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS I'm honored to be counted among…

This Week in Spring - March 8th, 2022

Engineering | March 08, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? A Bootiful Podcast: Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.1 GA Release GraphQL with Spring Boot java Hidden gems in Java 16 and Java 17, from Stream.mapMulti to HexFormat Introducing Spring Native for JHipster: Serverless Full-Stack Made Easy | Okta Developer Mar 10 - Getting Started with Spring Authorization Server Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.0-M1 Released Spring Cloud Gateway CVE reports published Spring…

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