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 8th, 2024

Engineering | October 08, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium 2024 event! I am so happy to be back here, one of the best shows in the Java ecosystem! We've got a lot to get into so let's dive right in! From Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.x to 3.0 Supercharging your AI Applications with Spring AI Advisors mvn clean install or mvn verify the new informational JEP: 14 authoring webcomponents in a Spring Boot Thymeleaf project "...After evaluating various options, we have decided to tentatively migrate Spring Framework 7 to JSpecify…

This Week in Spring - October 1st, 2024

Engineering | October 01, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! it's the first of October! We're officially in the fourth quarter of 2024! Time's moving too quickly. Way too quickly. But as always, there's awesome stuff afoot, so let's dive right in! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller looks at the road ahead, to Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Framework 7.0 In this first installment, Oded Shopin looks at integrating Spring AI into the famous Spring Petclinic application Oded Shopin continues his effort in this second part Spring director Michael Minella looks at the extension of Spring Boot 2.7's support timeline In this installment of…

This Week in Spring - September 24th, 2024

Engineering | September 24, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in delightful Dallas, TX, at the amazing JConf.dev show. Then I'm off to Germany, and then back home to do some laundry before heading out to Denver, CO, for the amazing Dev2Next show, before then heading out to Belgium for Devoxx Belgium. It's going to be a fun few weeks. How're you doin'? Reload SSL certificates from HashiCorp Vault for Spring Boot Huge thanks to Sébastien Deleuze for finding this amazing demonstration from Dr. Fabio Niephaus, which invokes a Rust image processing library that's compiled to…

This Week in Spring - September 17th, 2024

Engineering | September 17, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Last week I was in scintilliating Seoul, Korea, and then tantalizing Tokyo, Japan, and now I'm in marvelous Mumbai, India, at the airport, actually, headed to New Delhi, India. It's been a busy week for me and even busier a week for the community, so let's dive into it! Java 23 is here! Happy Java 23 day to those who celebrate! Now to wait for SDKMAN to pick it up... In last week's podcast episode, I (finally!) got to sit down with Spring creator Rod Johnson. Spring Tools has some cool new upgrades. I love this documentary looking at the success of Kotlin. Nice tip from…

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring creator and cofounder, Dr. Rod Johnson

Engineering | September 12, 2024 | ...
In this wide-ranging interview, I finally sit down one-on-one and talk to Dr. Rod Johnson, the creator of Spring, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, engineer, father, Kotlin fan, AI researcher, and musician, about this, that, and everything in between, fresh off our recent SpringOne presentation on Spring AI with Spring AI founder Dr. Mark Pollack. This is an extra special, extra-long episode!

This Week in Spring - September 10th, 2024

Engineering | September 10, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Or, I suppose: 안녕하세요, Spring 팬 여러분! I'm writing this from a café in scintillating Seoul, Korea. It's amazing. I've been talking to developers of all stripes who are using and building upon Spring to do all sorts of cool stuff. And tomorrow, it's off to jolly Japan. I'll be speaking, among other places, at the Japanese Spring User Group in Tokyo. I'd love to see you there! We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it! Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze has a nice sample application demonstrating Kotlin/WASM, leveraging Kotlin serialization on both JVM and in…

A Bootiful Podcast: Sébastien Deleuze on Spring Framework and Kotlin, GraalVM, Project Leyden, AppCDS, runtime efficiency, Kotlin, and more

Engineering | September 06, 2024 | ...
Dive deep into the world of Spring Framework and Kotlin, GraalVM, Project Leyden, AppCDS, runtime efficiency, Kotlin, and more, with the one and only Sébastien Deleuze! From runtime efficiency to all things Kotlin, this episode is packed with expert insights and valuable information. Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation with a true Spring guru! Tune in now! #Java #SpringFramework #Kotlin #TechTalks #SpringBoot

This Week in Spring - September 3rd, 2024

Engineering | September 03, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not lol. It's confusing. I feel like I am still "on," like there's work to be done for SpringOne. But I think I also appreciate that it's in the rear view window and it's time to focus on what's ahead: Asia! This Friday, I head to Korea, then Japan, then India, and then (not yet confirmed) China. Pay…

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