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 1st, 2021

Engineering | June 01, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing well! I hope you're doing well, too. Can you believe we've just entered the month of June 2021? WHERE HAS THIS YEAR GONE ALREADY! It's insane. But, the march of Spring continues, and with each passing week a ton of new stuff to talk about arrives. Let's get into it!

This Week in Spring - May 25th, 2021

Engineering | May 25, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm still fresh off my little vacation last week, feeling fantastic. I've spent the last several days working with Spring Boot and Spring Native and I have to tell you, they're epic.

It's gotten to the point where I sometimes spend time working on enabling Spring Native integrations for other projects - it really makes some third party abstractions come alive! It's hard to know what the right comparison is. There's not much you can do in this life that results in such an instantaneous, night-and-day difference in performance and memory profile with so few (user-visibile) changes. Imagine snapping your fingers and having your luxury hypercar (Spring Boot in this metaphor) transform into an equally capable, and very

This Week in Spring - May 18th, 2021

Engineering | May 18, 2021 | ...

SpringOne Tour: Booternetes - May 12th, 2021

Engineering | May 14, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! We wrapped up the epic SpringOne Tour installment for May a couple of days ago. Here's the Day 1 recording - Booternetes II: The YAML Strikes Back - featuring yours truly, Mark Heckler, Mario Gray, David Turanski, Tiffany Jernigan, Chris Sterling, and special guest star, Kubernetes cofounder, Joe Beda.

This edition pulls together a lot of different Spring ecosystem technologies, showing projects that you might use to more fully exploit the power of Kubernetes. Enjoy!

Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!

Engineering | May 13, 2021 | ...

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions.

Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on automating end-to-end from idea to provisioning Azure resources to building Spring Boot applications to deploying those applications to production. Many of these…

SpringOne Tour Booternetes Europe

Engineering | May 11, 2021 | ...

Michael Cote, Hannah Foxwell, and Jakub Pilimon talk about application modernization strategies while driving production outcomes with Spring on Kubernetes. For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMwareTanzu

VMware Tanzu helps you modernize your applications and infrastructure with a common goal: deliver better software to production, continuously. The portfolio simplifies multi-cloud operations while freeing developers to move faster and access the right resources for building the best applications. VMware Tanzu enables development and operations teams to work together in new ways that deliver transformative business results. Learn more here: https://tanzu.vmware.com/

This Week in Spring - May 11th, 2021

Engineering | May 11, 2021 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! First: a happy belated mother's day to you! Being a mom is already the hardest job, and it got considerably harder this last year as a global pandemic descended on the world forcing so many new complications on an already fraught enterprise: raising a family. So, thank you, moms. (Also: you deserve far more than just a day!)

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