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 5th, 2015

Engineering | May 05, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Las Vegas at the mega EMC World event. Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced that Spring Security SAML 1.0.1 is now available Phillip Verheyden's talk offers a very pragmatic look athow to move Spring 3 application - including dependencies like Jackson and Hibernate - to take advantage of newer and new features in Spring 4.x. My pal Adib Saikali's SpringOne2GX 2014 talk on building a rich client backends with Spring is now up Don't miss this replay of Spring ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and…

This Week in Spring - April 29th, 2015

Engineering | April 28, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference. Spring Social lead Craig Walls just announced the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Social Facebook 2.0 line. the good Dr. Syer just published a blog on different ways to bind services in Cloud Foundry Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security 4.0.1, the first maintenance release in the Spring Security 4.0 line This Week's SpringOne2GX Replays are out! Marius Bogoevici shows us how to Build highly…

This Week in Spring - April 21, 2015

Engineering | April 21, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Bangalore, India, at the Great Indian Developer Summit. Lots of the Spring Team are at JAXConf in Germany this week as well. A friendly reminder, if you're in the south west region of Europe, and Barcelona, Spain, specifically, and looking for fun in the sun, I can think of no better option than Spring I/O Conference, which is next week. Don't miss the many great talks from many amazing Spring team and Spring community members. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting and seeing you all! Without further ado, let's get…

Using Apache Kafka for Integration and Data Processing Pipelines with Spring

Engineering | April 15, 2015 | ...
Applications generated more and more data than ever before and a huge part of the challenge - before it can even be analyzed - is accommodating the load in the first place. Apache's Kafka meets this challenge. It was originally designed by LinkedIn and subsequently open-sourced in 2011. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. The design is heavily influenced by transaction logs. It is a messaging system, similar to traditional messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MQSeries, but it's ideal for log aggregation…

This Week in Spring - April 15th, 2015!

Engineering | April 14, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to discuss so let's get to it! Last week I was in Paris, France, for Devoxx, FR, and this week I'm in India for the Great Indian Developer Summit and for some meetings ahead of the conference in Bangalore and Hyderabad. If you're in Bombay, Hyderabad, or Bangalore, and want to talk Spring, Cloud Foundry, and big-data, let me know! In a week and some change, I'll be in Barcelona, Spain, for Spring I/O. If you're in Spain, be sure not to miss this amazing event! I, along with many other members of the Spring team…

This Week in Spring - April 7th, 2015

Engineering | April 07, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm off to Paris, France for Devoxx France. Many of us on the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams will be there, so don't hesitate to reach out if you're about, we'd love to hear from you! Also, even if you're not at the show, come meet many of us on the Spring team (including Juergen Hoeller himself, Stéphane Nicoll, Brian Clozel, Sébastien Deleuze and of course yours truly) at this free Devoxx France event. Also, this Thursday I'll be speaking at the vJUG again, this time on building microservices with Spring Cloud. Don't miss it…

This Week in Spring - March 31, 2015

Engineering | March 31, 2015 | ...
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 Security lead Rob Winch just announced the amazing Spring Security 4.0 release! This one is packed with amazing features including websocket support, Spring Data integration, enhanced testing support, and much improved defaults The Cloud Foundry Java buildpack now supports overriding inbuilt configuration through the use of well-named environment variables! This means you can tweak all manner of the default behavior without needing to fork the buildpack! Good news! Spring XD 1.…

This Week in Spring - March 24th, 2015

Engineering | March 24, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm in São Paulo, Brazil, where I presented a workshop on building cloud-native applications - specifically microservices - with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry (via Pivotal Web Services). Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced Spring Data Fowler has gone GA, packed with lots of advanced Java 8 features, as well! The agenda for the Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain is now available! Check it out! Done with the microservices hype? Then let's get practical on April 21st. I'll be talking about how Spring…

Using Google Protocol Buffers with Spring MVC-based REST Services

Engineering | March 22, 2015 | ...
This week I'm in São Paulo, Brazil presenting at QCon SP. I had an interesting discussion with someone who loves Spring's REST stack, but wondered if there was something more efficient than plain-ol' JSON. Indeed, there is! I often get asked about Spring's support for high-speed binary based encoding of messages. Spring's long supported RPC encoding with the likes of Hessian, Burlap, etc., and Spring Framework 4.1 introduced support for Google Protocol Buffers which can be used with REST services as well. From the Google Protocol Buffer website: Protocol buffers are Google's language…

This Week in Spring - March 17th, 2015

Engineering | March 17, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been busily preparin for a workshop I'll be giving at QCon São Paulo next week. If you're at the show, I hope you'll come out to say hi, ask questions and we'll talk Spring and Cloud Foundry. Obrigado! The replay on my humble webinar introducing Spring Session is online, check it out! Janne Valkealahti has just announced the latest release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC1, packed with new features and now - at long last!! - near GA! Go Janne and team, go! Spring and Groovy & Grails Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just…

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