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 - February 11th, 2020

Engineering | February 12, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends? We've got a lot of good stuff this week, so let's get to it! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oleg Šelajev on ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more Spring…

This Week in Spring - February 4th, 2020

Engineering | February 05, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished spending a wonderful afternoon with customers and now I'm pouring through all the wonderful new content for this week. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! The Java at Microsoft blog has a nice recap of what’s new in Azure Spring Cloud Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.0.M1 Released Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9 Released Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 Released Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1 are available Spring…

This Week in Spring - January 28th, 2020

Engineering | January 28, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're things, my friends? Can you believe we're already nearly at the end of January? I have been knee-deep in code and coffee for these last several days and I'm running late for a meeting so, without further ado, let's get to it! Creating Docker images with Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 M1 Released Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.3.1 Released In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Neo4j's mad scientist Michael Hunger on graphs, databases, and relationships Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 is now available Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 1 Available Spring Tools…

This Week in Spring - January 21st, 2020

Engineering | January 21, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! It's 6 am Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, and I'm buckled in and ready to take off for Atlanta, Georgia (by way of Denver, Colorado...), where I'll be speaking at the Atlanta Java User Group tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone there. It's my first JUG appearance in the new year, too! So, let's get to it! Spring Boot 2.2.4 released Spring Vault 2.2.1.RELEASE and 2.1.5.RELEASE available In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Cloud Services' Bella (Yuxin) Bai Spring Boot 2.2.3 released Spring Boot 2.1.12 released Spring Framework 5.2.3,…

This Week in Spring - January 14th, 2020

Engineering | January 14, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! What a week! I have ... nothing... happening this week! You know why? I had jury duty for which I was summonsed in mid-2019. I had to postpone it since I was on the road. I finally report to the court to serve as a juror for some trial unknown, this month, January 2020, and I was there... for maybe two hours. I was excused! You should definitely do your civic duty, of course. But, it was awesome to have it over and done within a few hours. I had blocked out the entire week, just in case. So, now I'm working on my Reactive Spring book, writing a ton of code to support…

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