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 AI

Engineering | February 08, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs (like the one behind ChatGPT) and tools to support the RAG (retrieval augmented generation) pipeline. #ai #springboot #artificialintelligence #java #graalvm #cloud #java21 #postgresql

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Engineering | February 07, 2024 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it! in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge) that asks people to - using nothing but barebones JDK Java types - load one billion rows of weather station telemetry data. This was a race to the bottom as hundreds of entries flooded in and we eventually got implementations that loaded and analyzed and processed thirteen gigabytes of data in less…

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 Cloud 2022.0.5 (aka Kulburn) is now available in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring trainer Patrick Basumgartner about optimizing Spring applications Spring Cloud Commons 4.1.1 has…

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! Spring Shell 3.1.8 and 3.2.1 are now available CVE-2024-22233: Spring Framework server…

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. the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-m1 is now available this is such a cool project: it lets you use the Spring Boot programming model for TestContainers - as dependencies that get spun up for you automatically - but for other Spring Boot projects, like other services. It's super common to spin up multiple JVMs to test an entire application. One such use case…

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