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

A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more

Engineering | February 21, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to friends - Mercy Ma (马昕曦), Andy Shi (施孜海), and Jim Fang (方剑) - from Alibaba. These engineers work on Spring Cloud Alibaba, some of the open source infrastructure coming out of Alibaba designed to support Spring applications running at Alibaba, and more. The Reactive Foundation My Reactive Spring webinar series Apache RocketMQ Spring Cloud for Alibaba My Spring Tips video introducing some of Spring Cloud Alibaba

Spring Tips: RSocket and Spring Security

Engineering | February 20, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this first installment of Spring Tips season 7, we look at how to lock down RSocket services with Spring Security. By Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at using Spring Security and RSocket together. RSocket is a payload and platform agonostic wire protocol developed by engineers at Netflix and Facebook that supports the Reactive Streams concepts on the wire. The protocol is a stateful-connection centric protocol: a requester node connects and stays connected to another responder node. Once connected, either side can transmit information…

This Week in Spring - February 18th, 2020

Engineering | February 18, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to sunny Atlanta, Georgia, for the epic Devnexus show there. If you're there, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'm also busy recording new episodes of a Bootiful Podcast and new Spring Tips videos videos. We have some amazing guests on the show coming up and we have some really fascinating topics to introduce in our Spring Tips videos, too! Announcing: The NEW Spring Website! In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Vedran Pavic on Spring Session, Croatia, and so much more Spring Boot 2.3.…

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…

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