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 - December 18th, 2018

Engineering | December 19, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just wrapped up the last two talks or workshops I'll do this year. Yesterday we spent four hours looking at Reactive Spring and today we spent four hours looking at Spring Boot and Kotlin. I love doing these sorts of trainings because I really get to dive deep on topics with my audiences. It's, truly, one of the rare pleasures in an otherwise hectic schedule. Needless to say, I am super relaxed and happy as I write this and I hope you are too! You realize it's already December 18th, 2018, already? Gee time flies when…

This Week in Spring - December 11, 2018

Engineering | December 11, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Seattle, WA and now I'm off to Toronto, Canada for the epic SpringOne Tour Toronto edition, the last SpringOne Tour for the year, too! (Can you believe we're now less than 22 days from 2019? Time sure flies when you're having fun!) Spring Tips is back! And what a season have we planned for you! Last week we introduced the first new video, this one looking at the Spring support for Microsoft Azure. As always, you can see the whole playlist at the Spring Tips YouTube Playlist and you should check…

This Week in Spring - December 5th, 2018

Engineering | December 04, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Today I concluded my brief time in Paris, France, for the epic SpringOne Tour event and I'll be off to Milan, Italy, in about 12 hours where I'll be speaking at the Milano JUG Wednesday night. Ci saro presto, Milano! Tomorrow we'll have the first installment of season 5 of Spring Tips available so be sure to check this space soon and every Wednesday until we've exhausted all 11 episodes! There's a lot to love in the new Spring Tool Suite 4 release! Spring Session Bean-SR1 and Apple-SR7 Released Spring Boot 2.1.…

This Week in Spring - November 27th, 2018

Engineering | November 27, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Marikesh, Morocco for the epic Devoxx MA talking about all things Spring and cloud with my friends - Google's Ray Tsang and Microsoft's Bruno Borges. Then, tomorrow it's off to Bern and Zurich Switzerland [for the local JUGs there. Tonight, in about 15 minutes, I'm doing a live training on Safari - "Bootiful Kotlin," too. As usual, we've got a ton of things to cover so let's get to it! Spring Framework 5.1.3, 5.0.11 and 4.3.21 available now Spring Cloud Greenwich.M3 is available Join individuals like you…

This Week in Spring - November 20th, 2018

Engineering | November 20, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! How's things? I'm in Taipei, Taiwan, where I've presented at the local JUG and at the Cloud Native Forum. It's been a crazy good time on the ground eating delicious "stinky tofu" (that's its name!), trying to figure out the difference between traditional Chinese characters and so-called simplified Chinese characters used in China, and of course making tons of new friends. In less than 24h I'll be on a plane winging my way back west where I'll join my family, and our newest addition, and our friends, and we'll celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday together. It's this time of year…

This Week in Spring - November 13th, 2018

Engineering | November 13, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just flown from Singapore and arrived in Hong Kong where I'll be meeting with some of our bigger customers here for a few days. Then, it's off to Taipei where, among other things, I'll be presenting at the Taipei JUG and talking to some customers. If you're in any of these places, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)! With that, we've got a ton to get to so let's get to it! Need 24x7 ETL? Then Move to Cloud Native File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow Spring Boot in a Container I love this list of…

This Week in Spring - Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Engineering | November 06, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the epic SpringOne Tour Japan event and then, it's off to Seoul, South Korea and then Singapore. I'm trying to keep busy! I delivered two 3+ hour long talks yesterday despite a blistering fever and today I presented at the SpringOne Tour and then, tonight, I had the honor of presenting at a joint meeting of the JJUG and JSUG here in Tokyo on Tuesday evening (starting about 7h ago). If you're about, don't hesitate to say hi! I'd love to chat about anything and everything Pivotal and Spring with ya…

This Week in Spring - October 30th, 2018

Engineering | October 30, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France, for the amazing Voxxed Microservices event. This has been quite the show and I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to be there. Now, as I write this, I'm preparing to go to Beijing, China, for the first leg in Asia of the SpringOne Tour show. I'll be in China, then Japan, then Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Los Angeles, Morocco, Seattle, Toronto, and then finally - in mid December - I'll return home to San Francisco. We've got a ton of things to look at this week so, without…

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