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 2 Recap

Engineering | April 12, 2017 | ...
Hi Spring fans! We've now finished two seasons - 11 episodes and a recap post each - of Spring Tips. I'm going to take a little while to dream up some more content and, before you know it, we'll be back at it again! I'm always interested in hearing proposed topics so if you have some, please, by all means, shout it out loud to me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email (josh@joshlong.com). The motivations for me in doing these Spring Tips are: revisit traditional topics in light of Spring Boot and highlight parts of the amazing Spring ecosystem that, for one reason or another, don't get enough…

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2017

Engineering | April 11, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.M3. The new release includes an integration test framework, speed improvements, support for the Spring 5 reactive WebClient, retroactive restoration of file trees when using the (S)FTP and AWS S3 inbound adapters, a smarter SOAP web-services gateway, and much more. Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.2.0 and 1.1.4 Andy Wilkinson just debuted a look at the new Gradle Spring Boot 2.0 plugin in last week's Spring Tips I…

This Week in Spring - April 4th, 2017

Engineering | April 04, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, UK; Paris, France (for the epic Devoxx France event where I'll be speaking with my buddy Matt Raible) and Stuttgart, Germany, where I'll be speaking at conferences and to customers! If you're around, don't hesitate to say "hi"! the new release of Spring Tool Suite is jam-packed with new features supporting Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Check the New and Noteworthy and get it while it's hot! (I've just gotten a new laptop, so I'm doing that right now, too!) last week in the latest installment of Spring Tips I…

This Week in Spring - March 28th, 2017

Engineering | March 28, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Omaha, Nebraska, speaking to customers and tonight I'll be presenting at an event co-sponsored by the Omaha, JUG and the local Omaha, Spring Users Group, talking about reactive Spring. Don't be shy, come out and say hi! Sébastien Deleuze just introduced the 1.0.0.M1 relese of extensions supporting using Project Reactor in the Kotlin language Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1. Try it out now! For a good example of Spring REST Docs, scroll down and you'll see a very nice one from…

This Week in Spring - March 21st, 2017

Engineering | March 22, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot! Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1 Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.…

This Week in Spring - March 14th, 2017

Engineering | March 14, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago on business and preparing for next week, where I'll be at the first Devoxx US event, ever!. I hope to see you there! last week, I continued the Spring Tips series with a look at how to implement server-sent events using classic Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux in Spring Framework 5, due this summer Last week, Pivotal and Google announced Kubo, the ability to run and manage Kubernetes, on top of BOSH, alongside Cloud Foundry. This means that it's now possible to get support for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes…

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