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 - March 7th, 2017

Engineering | March 07, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2, both of which are packed with small improvements and bug-fixes. Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.1.0 and 2.0.13. This release includes new features supporting JSON Web Signature (JWS) verification using JSON Web Key (JWK). This feature provides support for authorization servers and have implemented key rollover/rotation. Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced…

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2017

Engineering | February 28, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! My friend Kenny Bastani and I will be doing a training for O'Reilly on the first and second of March introducing all things Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry - join us! The long awaited public beta of Spring Cloud Services is now live on our public Cloud Foundry, PIvotal Web Services! Spring web ninja Rossen Stoyanchev just announced the the M5 milestone release of Spring 5, complete with support for a WebClient testing mechanism Eric Bottard has just announced Spring…

This Week in Spring - February 21st, 2017

Engineering | February 21, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA for the incredible DevNexus event and then it's off to Geneva, Switzerland for the Voxxed CERN event. As usual, don't hesitate to say "Hi" if you're around! Thomas Risberg just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.M1 Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced the Spring IO Platform Brussels release which introduces Spring Kafka to the release train and updates several others. InfoQ's Charles Humble takes a look at the future of Enterprise Java via the lens of the Geoffrey Moore's Chasm metaphor…

Spring Tips: JOOQ

Engineering | February 15, 2017 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at jOOQ (a fluent API for typesafe SQL query construction and execution) to quickly and easily interface with our SQL database.

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2017

Engineering | February 14, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Valentines Day for some, and so happy Valentines day to you! This week I'm in Memphis, Tennessee for business and then it's off to Saint Louis where I'll be presenting on Reactive Spring with my buddy Mark Heckler (join us!), then it's off to Atlanta, Georgia, ahead of next week's big DevNexus show. Check out what Pivotal is up to at the event! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get going! Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin Spring Cloud Task…

This Week in Spring - February 7th, 2017

Engineering | February 07, 2017 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it. Fred Melo is one of Pivotal's brightest and when he talks about data, people listen. Here's your chance to watch his SpringOne Platform talk on data microservices The RabbitMQ Team has been busy! The RMQ Java Client has some very nice new (non-breaking) new features in Metrics, logging and Java NIO, among other things. Expanding on the metrics support in RMQ Java Client 4.0, the Rabbit team blogs about using JMX, Spring Boot Actuator and Coda Hale's awesome DropWizard Metrics library…

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