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 - August 27th, 2024 - SpringOne 2024 edition

Engineering | August 27, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans, from the expo hall of SpringOne at VMware Explore 2024! There's a livestream of some of the key talks - register and watch for free now at SpringOne.io. Right now I'm hanging out at the expo hall manning a booth and doing demos to the hoardes of people streaming by, but I'll be talking a bit later, too, which, again, you can watch online at SpringOne.io. As you can imagine, in the runup to SpringOne, there are a ton of exciting bits to look into, so let's! Spring AI 1.0.0 M2 is available now! Spring AI support for NVIDIA LLM API Good news everybody! Spring Shell 3.3.7, 3.3.…

This Week in Spring - August 20th, 2024

Engineering | August 20, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment in This Week in Spring! And happy week-before-SpringOne! I'm so excited I could spit! As you might imagine, AI, cloud native architecture, and so much more are top-of-mind. I love AI, and all its many applications. In that spirit, let's get ChatGPT to write a little poem for us! 'Twas the week before SpringOne, and all through Las Vegas, Java devs were arriving, their excitement contagious. Spring Boot and Kotlin, all polished with care, In hopes that new features soon would be there. Workshops and sessions, each bright in their light, Promising…

This Week in Spring - August 13th, 2024

Engineering | August 13, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy... Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at using Spring Boot and HTMX together I love this: a bunch of…

This Week in Spring - August 6th, 2024

Engineering | August 07, 2024 | ...
It's August! Egads, has that come quickly! AUGUST. The eigth month of the year, and we're almost done with the first week, in fact! It's not that I'm not grateful to be here, but, yah, wow that was quick. And, of course, the month of my all time double dutch favorite conference, SpringOne, happening August 26th, 2024! Will I see you there? In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Micrometer teammate Jonatan Ivanov In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I had special guest contributor and Spring Security lead Rob Winch Spring AI with Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference…

Spring Tips: HTMX

Engineering | August 07, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! HTMX is the progressive hypertext sensation that's sweeping the process of web app creation, and - thanks to a nice integration by Spring community legend Wim Deblauwe, it's easier than ever to use it with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. And, it's the topic of today's installment! #java #springboot #html #htmx #http #html5

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