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 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…

A Bootiful Podcast: James Ward

Engineering | May 20, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google Cloud Developer Advocate (and mentor, and friend!) James Ward (@_JamesWard) about his podcast Happy Path Programming (@HappyPathProg), programming, software, Spring Native, and his work at various organizations like Adobe, Heroku, Lightbend, SalesForce, and now Google Cloud.

This Week in Spring - May 18th, 2021

Engineering | May 18, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of great stuff to get to, and I'm otherwise on vacation (though you can still expect a new episode of A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), as usual) for this week, so let's get to it! A Bootiful Podcast: Axon Framework Founder Allard Buijze on CQRS, Sagas, and more A cool video demonstrating Spring Native Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure! Blog: Using Finalizers to Control Deletion Check out the latest version of the HAL explorer Check out the recording of my talk with Julien Dubois…

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…

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!) Have you registered for tomorrow's brand new (free!) SpringOne Tour installment? Don't miss this! It's going to be a jam packed exploration of using Spring to expand the opportunities implied by…

A Bootiful Podcast: Friend, fellow Spring Developer Advocate, Kotlin Google Developer Expert, and Java Champion, Mark Heckler

Engineering | May 07, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend, fellow Spring Developer Advocate, Kotlin Google Developer Expert, and Java Champion: Mark Heckler (@mkheck). Mark has also just written a well-recommended book from O'Reilly called Spring Boot: Up and Running.

This Week in Spring - May 4th, 2021

Engineering | May 05, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I hope you're doing well, and that the Fourth (of May) is with you. Today may be the 4th, but yesterday was the third of May, and that marks the 20th anniversary of the JdbcTemplate, which I think is super cool! Happy birthday, JdbcTemplate! The JdbcTemplate was important to a lot of people because it's one of those great little utilities that made it easy to justify pulling Spring into applications almost two decades ago. It also helped people learn a lot about some of the design patterns that Spring was…

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