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

Spring Tips - Season 6 Recap

Engineering | June 26, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! It's the end of yet another season of Spring Tips! I finished season 5 very recently, and had planned to leave it there for a month or two, but there were so many amazing things yet uncovered and constantly being released that I ended up releasing more episodes for what would become season 6. Now, I've finished season 6, and an extra episode besides, and will be taking a brief break to gather for the next season and take a few weeks to soak up and savor the summer season with my family. Please follow @SpringTipsLive on Twitter. I'd love any ideas you have for the new season. In…

This Week in Spring - June 25, 2019

Engineering | June 25, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today I'm in beautiful Tampla, Fl, where I got to talk to a wonderful Pivotal customer today. Now I'm at TPA airport preparing to board for Paris, France, for JHipsterConf. We've got a ton to cover so let's get to it! I just want to remind people that the majority of the Spring team is sponsored by the company Pivotal, an open-source powerhouse that sponsors among other things Spring, Cloud Foundry, a Kubernetes distribution, RabbitMQ, Jasmine, Apache Geode, Apache Tomcat, and a ton of other things. We've also got a deep…

This Week in Spring - June 18, 2019

Engineering | June 18, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in delightful Des Moines, Iowa; and then it's off to the twin cities of DescriptionMinneapolis–Saint Paul for the epic SpringOne Tour event there. We've got tons to look at this week so let's get to it! Spring Session Corn-M2 and Spring Session Bean-SR6 Released Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.2 Released Getting Started with Spring Cloud Gateway Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.1.RELEASE & 1.1.0.M2 Available Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.4.RELEASE & 2.2.0.M…

This Week in Spring - June 11th, 2019

Engineering | June 10, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Can you believe it? We're already almost halfway through June! Summer's nearly here! It's 97 Fahrenheit / 37 Celsius in San Francisco! That's nuts! I'm glad I'm in beautiful Amsterdam and Eindhoven, NL, beating the heat, though. What a privilege. We've got a busy week, as always, to get to so let's get to it! The Spring team has undertaken a massive effort to eliminate insecure HTTP URLs in favor of HTTPS. Learn how we did it (and you could too) in this blog Announcing nohttp A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb on Microservices, Brazil, and more Hi Spring fans…

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