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

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…

This Week in Spring - July 2nd, 2024

Engineering | July 03, 2024 | ...
Hi, spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, recorded a few weeks ago at Spring IO, I talked with Spring Security legend Laur Spilca In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at a number of ways you could improve the speed, scalability, and memory footprint of your Spring Boot 3.3 applications. Do not miss these! neat talk from Spring IO: Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool i liked this post, too, introducing the transactional outbox pattern in Spring Boot I…

Spring Tips: Testcontainers, Docker Compose, and Service Connections, oh my

Engineering | July 03, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing service connection mechanism in Spring Boot. Service connections are what allow Spring Boot to connect to Testcontainers or Docker Compose containers for supporting infrastructure like SQL databases, middleare, and more. #java #javaframework #springboot #postgresql #kafka #rethinkdb #database #docker #testcontainers #testing

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