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 14th, 2024

Engineering | May 14, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's highlights in the Spring ecosystem emphasize the ongoing advancements and applications of Spring AI. The discussions range from exploring the impressive VectorStore abstraction and enhanced structured output support to practical integrations with platforms like Azure OpenAI and Neo4J. There are several posts this week about how Spring AI can power intelligent applications. The celebration of Spring Boot's 10th anniversary with its cofounders and a historical reflection by Spring founder Rod Johnson further…

This Week in Spring - May 7th, 2024

Engineering | May 07, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in bellisima Rome, Italy, where I've just spent time in some fun meetings, and now I'm off to lovely London, UK, for Devoxx UK 2024. It's going to be amazing. If you're there, don't hesitate to say hi! I've got to run for a plane so let's make this week's installment quick! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Zenika CEO Carl Azoury Spring Tools 4.22.1 released In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the humble Spring bean, and you should too! Interesting! Somebody is…

This Week in Spring - April 30th, 2024

Engineering | April 30, 2024 | ...
Welcome to yet another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right into it! Chris Bono announces the new versions of Spring Functions Catalog and Spring Cloud Streams Applications In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Cloud Services and security guru Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the nascent world and support in Spring Security of Passkeys. Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 have been released! This introduces an updated ArchUnit 1.1.1 release, which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat…

This Week in Spring - Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

Engineering | April 24, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it! We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd! Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1 are now available Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1 has been released I love this post by prolific Spring AI contributor Christian Tzolov: Spring AI: Multimodality - Orbis Sensualium Pictus Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 is available now. That's right, RC1! Spring Boot 3.3 will soon be upon us! Now's the time to kick the…

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