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 - March 5th, 2024

Engineering | March 05, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting roundup of This Week in Spring! I expect many of you are reading this for the first time, especially with Facebook and Instagram being down. People have been exploring all the other lesser-known corners of the web, looking for their daily "doom scroll." Well, you won't find that here, no way, no how! There are no memes here. Well, not often, anyway. No, this is a place for personal growth, reflection, and contemplation on the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Spring. I did an article for The New Stack looking at the New Relic…

This Week in Spring - February 27th, 2024

Engineering | February 28, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein we explore the latest-and-greatest in the wonderful world of Springdom. This week's going to be a very good one, so let's dive right into it! https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/spring-modulith-1-0-6-1-1-3-and-1-2-m2-released https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/spring-ai-0-8-0-released https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/a-bootiful-podcast-timefold-solver-ai-lead-geoffrey-de-smet good news everyone! Spring Boot's been updated! 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3, and 3.1.9 are now available! Spring Security 6.2.2, 6.1.7, and 5.8.10 are now…

This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2024

Engineering | February 20, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 20th of February, 2024? I'm doing alright on this rainy 20th of Feburary here in San Francisco, and I hope you are too! We've got a ton of things to get into this week so let's dive right into it! Have you checked out the Spring Health Assessment report? It's a great way to give your project's dependencies a health checkup. Spring Health Assessment Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.3 is now available Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.14, and 3.2.0 M1 are now available The first milestone of Spring Data 2024.0.…

This Week in Spring - February 14th, 2024

Engineering | February 13, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it! Spring Tools 4.21.1 is now available In the latest installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talk to the good, the great Dr. Venkat Subramaniam In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the new Spring AI project In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the new Spring Boot Testjars project our friend Siva has a nice video on using Java 17 and 2…

Spring Tips: Spring Boot Testjars

Engineering | February 08, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the brand new Spring Boot Testjars project, which greatly simplifies standing up and reusing satellite Java-based services like other Spring Boot-based microservices or infrastructure like the Spring Authorization Server. #springboot #java #java21 #testjars #oauth #docker #architecture #softwaretesting #microservices

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