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

Spring Tips: Spring Security method security with special guest Rob Winch

Engineering | July 31, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have special guest Spring Security lead Rob Winch give us a master class in how the method security support works and some of its new features. Come for the security, stay for the incredible opportunity to look over a senior engineer's shoulders as he explains the nuances of API design! #springboot #springsecurity #springframework #java #security #apidevelopment #softwaredevelopment #architecture

This Week in Spring - July 29th, 2024

Engineering | July 29, 2024 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's July 29th, 2024! I can hardly believe it! We're less than a month away from SpringOne 2024! Have you registered for either in-person attendance or the free livestreams yet? As always, we've got a ton of stuff to cover so let's dive right into it! first, Ollama just announced support for tools, and that's now supported in Spring AI! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to cloud infrastructure legend Mark Fynes about Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, continuous delivery, and so much more. Spring Cloud…

A Bootiful Podcast: Cloud Legend Mark Fynes

Engineering | July 25, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Mark Fynes. Mark’s a field principal with Tanzu at Broadcom, building platforms with our Pivotal/VMWare/Broadcom customers for the past 10 years. Passionate technologist, working closely with developers, architects, IT-operations, security architecture and IT-leaders.

This Week in Spring - July 23rd, 2024

Engineering | July 24, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! It's such an exciting time to be alive! I hope you're doing well. It's nearly the end of July, already! Time is flying and as always the community has not disappointed with their incredible content. Let's dive right into it! have you registered for SpringOne 2024 yet? I love this talk from Spring IO 2024 on Micrometer Mastery, by Tommy Ludwig and Jonatan Ivanov Spring Tools 4.24.0 released Spring Modulith 1.3 M1, 1.2.2, and 1.1.7 released Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1 available Spring Boot 3.3.2 available now On last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to digital…

Spring Tips: Proxies

Engineering | July 17, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the use of JDK and CGLIB-based proxies in Spring, and demystify their application #Java #SpringBoot #SpringFramework #Architecture #DesignPatterns #oop

This Week in Spring - July 16th, 2024

Engineering | July 16, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the middle of July! I can't believe it! Things have been just rushing by! did you see this awesome talk on observability by Tommy Ludwig and Jonatan Ivanov from Spring IO 2024? What is a ReadWriteLock? Spring for GraphQL 1.2.8 and 1.3.2 is available Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1 Spring AMQP 3.2.0 M1 Spring Data 2024.0.2 and 2023.1.8 released Spring HATEOAS 2.2.3 and 2.3.1 are available https://spring.io/blog/2024/07/11/spring-cloud-2023-0-3-aka-leyton-has-been-released In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast…

This Week in Spring - July 9th, 2024

Engineering | July 09, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it's been! We've got a lot to get into, so let's dive right in. I quite liked this talk, Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool @ Spring I/O 2024 In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JobRunr's Ronald Dehuysser In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Boot support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose Spring Framework and Spring Boot with Project Reducing Testcontainers Execution Time with JUnit 5 Callbacks interesting…

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