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 - November 7th, 2023

Engineering | November 07, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe we've already turned the calendar page to November? Time sure is a swift developer, deploying months as if they were minor versions in an ever-evolving application. As we adjust our clocks to fall back, waving a reluctant goodbye to daylight savings time, the encroaching evening arrives with a brisk efficiency. Yes, it's dark outside, a bit too early for my liking, if I'm honest. The shortened days remind us that while we may not be in control of the celestial clock, we do have the power to harness the hours we're given. This is the perfect time to settle in…

This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2023

Engineering | October 31, 2023 | ...
Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate! I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs! My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it. A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0 available now Spring Statemachine 4.0.0-M1 is now available laech/java-stacksrc: Decorates stack traces with source code snippets. - this is super cool. It's a way to decorate stack traces with source code snippets. Blog: Introducing ingress2gateway; Simplifying…

A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls

Engineering | October 26, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! This week, I'm joined by one of my longtime heroes and fellow Disney fans, Craig Walls (@habuma). He wrote the most popular book on Spring, Spring in Action, while helping the world stay connected with efforts like Spring Social. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las vegas, NV! Did you miss it?

This Week in Spring - October 24th, 2023

Engineering | October 24, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal, ahead of the Porto Tech Hub event in Porto, and my tour bus is about to leave! So, let's dive right into it! Spring Authorization Server 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4 available now Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1 available now Spring Boot 2.7.17 available now Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 available now Spring Modulith 1.1 RC1 and 1.0.2 released - this is quickly turning into one of my favorite new projects and is well worth your attention, too. It's a structured way to build well-designed, elegant, modular monoliths (or moduliths), but it…

This Week in Spring - October 17th, 2023

Engineering | October 17, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's October 17th, 2023, and I am here in Montreal, Canada, and then I'm off to Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday for the Java User Group there. Don't miss it! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's dive right into it! Apache Kafka's Exactly-Once Semantics in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Guide to Modulith with Spring Boot - Piotr's TechBlog Runtime efficiency with Spring (today and tomorrow) Spring Data 2023.0.5, 2022.0.11, and 2021.2.17 released Spring Framework 6.0.13 available now Transactional…

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Language Architect Brian Goetz

Engineering | October 12, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Are you using Java 21 in production already? No? you should listen to this episode. Yes? Then you should listen to this episode! This week, Josh Long talks to legendary Java Language Architect Brian Goetz (@BrianGoetz) recaping the latest-and-greatest and previewing Java.next

This Week in Spring - October 10th, 2023

Engineering | October 10, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium event, and this week I've been in Amsterdam for the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam stop and - in the middle of the SpringOne Tour Amsterdam event - I dipped out to join my friend and fellow Java Champion Trustin Lee (@trustin) (he created Netty! the guy's a living legend!) for a discussion and ask-me-anything at the local Amsterdam Java User Group, hosted by fellow Java Champion and local Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW). It was a lovely day indeed across the two…

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