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 - May 13th, 2025

Engineering | May 13, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm at the amazing Code Remix event in Miami (well, technically Tampa), Florida. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After that, I'll be headed back to Europe—a wee bit further north this time—to Stockholm for the amazing JForum event, where I'll be doing a much deeper dive into all things Spring. You know what I'm most excited about? You don't have to look far to figure it out—just check out the ol' Spring Calendar. Spring AI releases on May 20th! And then, a few short and sweet days later—which, by the way, I'll be…

This Week in Spring - May 6th, 2025

Engineering | May 06, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm winging my way to lovely London, UK, for the amazing Devoxx UK event! I'll be looking at the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Then, from there, it's off to Code Remix in Miami. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After that, I'll be headed back to Europe—a wee bit further north this time—to Stockholm for the amazing JForum event, where I'll be doing a much deeper dive into all things Spring. You know what I'm most excited about? You don't have to look far to figure it out—just check out the ol' Spring Calendar. Spring…

This Week in Spring - April 29th, 2025

Releases | April 29, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's 29 April 2025 and things are starting to kick into overdrive! Starting next week, I'll be doing: Devoxx UK CodeRemix Miami JForum #123 in Stockholm, Sweden Spring IO in Barcelona, Spain JNation in Coimbra, Portugal The Japan Java User Group Spring (time) conference in Tokyo, Japan If you're going to be there or near there, don't hesitate to say "hi"! As always, we've got a ton of stuff cooking this week, too! Let's dive right into it! Spring Boot 3.5.0-RC1 is available now Spring gRPC 0.8.0 is available now Spring…

This Week in Spring - April 22nd, 2025

Engineering | April 22, 2025 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot. I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine Want to run an LLM entirely in Java, supercharged with GraalVM native images? Check out this tweet from GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko — it's dope. I loved it so much I made a quick YouTube Short on the same topic. By the way, want to learn Java? This is a great resource. The amazing Spring AI co-lead Christian…

This Week in Spring - April 15th, 2025

Engineering | April 15, 2025 | ...
Spring AI M7 is here! This new release includes a bunch of awesome new features! And some refactorings. Notably that the Spring AI auto-configuration has changed from a single monolithic artifact to individual auto-configuration artifacts per model, vector store, and other components. This change was made to minimize the impact of different versions of dependent libraries conflicting, such as Google Protocol Buffers, Google RPC, and others. By separating auto-configuration into component-specific artifacts, you can avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies and reduce the risk of version…

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