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 - January 30th, 2024

Engineering | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! (Sadly, he passed in 2019). I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good as all the cool stuff we've got in this week's roundup! Let's dive right into it.

Spring Tips: easy CQRS with Axon Framework

Engineering | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Axon Framework founder Allard Buijze and we look at the new integrations for Spring Boot developers in Axon Framework and AxonIQ Server.

Special thanks to AxonIQ for the keynote video replay. Check out https://www.axoniq.io/ for more great stuff!

#java #java21 #axon #springboot #architecture #cqrs

This Week in Spring - January 23rd, 2024

Engineering | January 22, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from CERN, home of the famous Large Hadron Collider, where I'm speaking again at the VOXXED Days CERN 2017 event. It's been an amazing almost week here in lovely Switzerland, first in Lugano (for VOXXED Days Ticino), and now in Geneva.

I'm super excited to be here, but all this wonderful scenery has only made it more difficult to keep up with what has been a very exciting week indeed in the community. Let's dive right into it, we have a ridiculous amount of stuff to look into!

This Week in Spring - January 16th, 2024

Engineering | January 16, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 16th of January already! We're closer to February than not! I can hardly believe it.

As always, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

This Week in Spring - January 9th, 2024

Engineering | January 09, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the second week of 2024, and I am already thinking about 2025! And, a bit more immediatelt than that: the next two weeks. I'll be at both VOXXED DAYS Ticino and VOXXED DAYS CERN, both in Switzerland. If you're about, come out and say hi!

This year is going to be amazing!

And this week's been amazing, too. Let's dive into it.

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