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: Gary Russell

Engineering | September 06, 2019 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, @starbuxman talks to Spring Integration lead Gary Russell about Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spring Integration and more. Gary on Twitter (@gprussell) the Spring Integration project page

This Week in Spring: September 3, 2019

Engineering | September 03, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've just finished celebrating Labor Day here in the Long home, in San Francisco, in the US. It was a fun day spent with family and friends, and I wasn't sure if I could have any more fun but it's Tuesday, and you know what that means: another epic installment of This Week in Spring. I can't believe we're already in September, staring down the last few months of the year already! As usual, one of my favorite parts of the journey to the next year is the arrival of the epic SpringOne Platform show. This year is no different…

This Week in Spring - August 27, 2019

Engineering | August 27, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, stuck in a monster of a traffic jam trying to make it to another meeting. I'm so elated to be here to connect with amazing people and organizations. I'm also excited that, this week, I'll be speaking at the Bangalore Java User Group. Please, come out and say hi! As usual, we've got a lot to cove so let's get to it! I loved recording last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast wherein I got to talk to Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on…

A Bootiful Podcast: Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on the Simplicity Continuum

Engineering | August 23, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week I had the pleasure of talking with Ryan Knight and with the two people with whom I am copresenting at SpringOne Platform 2019, James Ward and Matt Raible. James Ward on Twitter: @_JamesWard Matt Raible on Twitter: @mraible Ryan Knight on Twitter: @knight_cloud

This Week in Spring - August 20th, 2019

Engineering | August 20, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! I'm in delightful Denver and Boulder, Colorado, talking to customers and working with my buddies Matt Raible and James Ward on our Spring One Platform 2019 talk. It's going to be amazing! I'm oh-so-excited to be working on today's roundup, as usual, because there's a ton of good stuff to cover, so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Hoxton.M2 Released Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.M3 (3.0.0.M3) Securing Services with Spring Cloud Gateway In last week's episode of a A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Spring and Spring Boot teammate Brian Clozel about performance, RSocket, and so…

A Bootiful Podcast: Brian Clozel

Engineering | August 16, 2019 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Boot and Spring Framework engineer Brian Clozel (@bclozel) about all the new features - RSocket support, performance improvements and more - in Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2. Brian on Twitter: @bclozel Spring Boot on Twitter: @SpringBoot the place to get started with all things Spring: start.cupchino.shop

This Week in Spring - August 13, 2019

Engineering | August 13, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a This Week in Spring! I've just finished one of the most amazing experiences of my life - O'Reilly's "Foo Camp," an unconference where invited guests can camp on the O'Reilly Media campus headquarters and talk to each other. I met, among a zillion other people, former California governor Jerry Brown, former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and so many more. Now I'm in terrific Texas talking to our wonderful customers in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Plano. I'm also speaking at the Dallas MUG tomorrow night, if you're around and want…

This Week in Spring - August 6, 2019

Engineering | August 06, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing week in Spring! I just published This Month in Spring yesterday, if you want a larger roundup of everything from June to about yesterday. Spring Boot 2.2.0 M5 available now Spring Boot 2.1.7 available now It is time - Goodbye Spring Boot 1.x! Spring Security 5.1.6 and 5.0.13 Released Spring Security 5.2.0.M4 Released Spring Data Moore RC2, Lovelace SR10, and Ingalls SR23 released Spring Framework 5.2 goes RC1 Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RC1 Released! Spring Framework 5.1.9, 5.0.15 and 4.3.25 available now spring-data-dev-tools…

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