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 - October 25, 2016

Engineering | October 25, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'll be in Des Moines, Iowa for the Prairie.Code conference. If you're nearby, stop by and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

  • Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR1. The Spring Cloud release train is such a thing of beauty - just seeing it makes me want to build something cool! It includes Spring Cloud AWS, Bus, Commons, Contract, Config, Netflix, Security, Sleuth, Stream, Task, and Zookeeper.
  • Spring Cloud Data Flow co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2.
  • Want help automating the pipeline that sees your application move from a git push to a successfully deployed application in production? Check out the new project, Spring Cloud Pipelines, which is a set of shell scripts that can be plugged in portably across Pivotal Concourse or Jenkins…

This Week in Spring - October 18, 2016

Engineering | October 18, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been another crazy wonderful week. This week I'm in London and Cambridge, UK visiting with customers and speaking (in particular, at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference) If you're about be sure to say hi! Now then, let's get to it!

  • The Spring Cloud Services Team, led by Chris Sterling has just finished making Eureka Service Discovery work even better on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The new 1.2 release allows peer replication across installations and organizations, enabling multi-site replication.
  • Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2 just released today, picking up Boot 1.4.1 and Spring Cloud Camden releases. Check out all the extra goodies in Mark Pollack's blog post.
  • Learn how to build data-centric microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow with this incredible webinar
  • Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan has just

This Week in Spring - October 11, 2016

Engineering | October 11, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already almost mid October and I can't believe we're almost in 2017! Time is sure flying quickly!

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2016

Engineering | October 05, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - September 27, 2016

Engineering | September 27, 2016 | ...

Wow! It's already almost October! This year has sure gone by quickly!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in the studio with Phil Webb recording the next installment of our Livelessons series on building Microservices with Spring Boot. It's been a lot of fun so far and we've only just begun!

Tonight, I hope you'll join me for Cloud Native Java on the vJUG's worldwide and live event going on in timezones all around the world!

We've got so much to cover, so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - September 20, 2016

Engineering | September 20, 2016 | ...

Hello world! Since we last talked, I've been in multiple cities in China, including Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, talking to customers and community members alike. It's fascinating to see what our amazing customers in China do with our technologies in the hypercompetitive Chinese market. And, tasty!

This Week in Spring - September 13, 2016

Engineering | September 13, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an amazing week here in China, hanging out with Alibaba and Huawei, bringing the Spring. This week it's off to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong!

Our pal Pieter Humphrey has been busy this week getting the SpringOne Platform 2016 videos up and online for us to enjoy so there's a lot of good stuff this week! Thanks Pieter!

This Week in Spring - September 6th, 2016

Engineering | September 06, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China where I spoke at the ginormous Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai and where I'll be working with Alibaba and Huawei for a week or so. I'll also be speaking at the Hangzhou Java User Group, too.

(Can you believe we're already in September?? Seriously blown away! 2017 is just around the corner!)

I'm also, technically, on vacation, so I'll keep this post to a minimum! :)

This Week in Spring - August 30th, 2016

Engineering | August 30, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in San Francisco, (where I live and) where I addressed the Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Now it's off to beautiful China to bring some Spring and Pivotal (and, maybe, take a little vacation!)

As usual, we have a lot to get to so let's!

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