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 - September 5th, 2023

Engineering | September 05, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I just got back from another fabulous labor day weekend, and am headed to Oslo, Norway, for the fabulous JavaZone 2023 event. This will be my first time returning to lovely Oslo, Norway, since the pandemic! I can't wait! If you're there, don't hesitate to say "hey"! Spring Data JDBC - How To Maintain Your Database Schema I really like the Spring Cloud Alibaba's project's landing page: SpringCloudAlibaba The Java Landscape: A Month with Vaadin, OpenJDK Insights, and Java Enhancements This is the Beginning of…

This Week in Spring - August 29th, 2023 - the post SpringOne recovery blog

Engineering | August 29, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm exhausted. Seriously. Last week was mental. If you need me, I'll be over sipping on a tea... But, before that, there's a ton of things to cover from this last week, as always, and there's no rest for the curious, so let's get that out of the way first, shall we? I did a (personal) recap of my experience at SpringOne 2023, our annual tentpole event that we held coincadent with VMWare Explore 2023 in sunny Las Vegas, NV. If you were there, you know, if you weren't, well, read on...! Our friend Siva has a great blog…

My SpringOne 2023 Recap

Engineering | August 29, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Look, it's Monday after the first in-person SpringOne of the 2020s and the first since the pandemic, and, being honest, I'm bushed! Vegas is a dizzying, sensational, overwhelming, exciting experience, and SpringOne is too. But it was worth it. The SpringOne show surpassed all expectations, so it was definitely worth it. This overwhelming scale was nowhere more evident than in the keynote, which was standing room only. I can't really recap the entire show, but I do want to talk about some of the huge themes you'd have seen addressed in the keynote. During the keynote, the good…

This Week in Spring - August 22, 2023

Engineering | August 23, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here! We've got a ton of things to get into this week, let's dive right into it! This year we're celebrating twenty (20!) years since the early builds of Spring Framework 1.0, and ten (10!!) years since the early builds of Spring Boot 1.0. Did you see this amazing easter-egg, The History of Spring?? It's amazing! We announced a new project called Spring…

This Week in Spring - August 22nd, 2023

Engineering | August 22, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And, would you believe it, I'm writing this at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first in-person SpringOne since 2019, and I'm so, so, so glad to be here! We've got a ton of things to get into this week, let's dive right into it! This year we're celebrating twenty (20!) years since the early builds of Spring Framework 1.0, and ten (10!!) years since the early builds of Spring Boot 1.0. Did you see this amazing easter-egg, The History of Spring?? It's amazing! We announced a new project called Spring…

This Week in Spring - August 15th, 2023

Engineering | August 15, 2023 | ...
SpringOne, the first in-person SpringOne since the pandemic! - is next week!! I'm so excited I could spit. And I did spit. And then, I asked ChatGPT for some help writing a poem, and it did not disappoint! T'was a week before SpringOne, in Las Vegas so grand, Where devs from all corners would soon take a stand. The stages were set by the Strip with such care, In hopes that Spring's legacy soon would be there. For twenty years past, since Spring first had begun, In Java it started, its triumphs were won. With Boot at its heart and Kubernetes by side, It scaled the vast clouds, on containers it…

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