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

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise – More Power, Scalability & Extended Spring Boot Support

Engineering | July 11, 2023 | ...
Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset, Azure and VMware Tanzu have been trusted partners to customers for running mission-critical Java and Spring workloads. Our commitment and fondness for the Java Spring developer community have never wavered. Microsoft and VMware Tanzu Collaboration Continues Microsoft collaboration with the Spring team…

This Week in Spring - July 4th, 2023

Engineering | July 04, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop. If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Spring Boot 3.x with Josh Long, Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 6:00 PM. It's going to be a ton of fun! I'll be doing a SpringOne Tour event next week in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the 13th of July. Don't miss this! We've got a crazy busy roundup to get to so let's dive right in! A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Philipp Krenn…

Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI

Engineering | July 02, 2023 | ...
Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy! Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is the most popular Java framework in the market, known for its simplicity, design patterns and focus on productivity for developing enterprise-grade applications. In this blog, we delve into the exciting realm of leveraging Spring with Azure OpenAI to unlock a new realm of possibilities. You can…

This Week in Spring - June 27th, 2023

Engineering | June 27, 2023 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about. First, yesterday I did a joint presentation with my friend the one the only the amazing Trustin Lee, creator of Netty and lead of the Armeria Project over at LINE corporation. LINE is a super popular social messaging application used a lot in Korea and in Japan. It was a ton of fun collaborating with, and…

This Week in Spring - June 20th, 2023

Engineering | June 20, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Sydney, Australia, talking to customers, koalas, kangaroos, and whoever else will listen! I'll be doing a live presentation, tonight at the Microsoft Reactor here in Sydney. Register now and come join me! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get through so let's dive right into it! On last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Angular Google Developer Expert Santosh Yadav. I love this blog by our own Toshiaki Maki looking at how to implement polling-based outbox pattern with Spring Integration That…

This Week in Spring - June 13th, 2023

Engineering | June 13, 2023 | ...
This Month in Spring - June 13th, 2023 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Taipei, eating delicious food and meeting amazing people in the sweltering weather. How're you doin'? I've got to join a meeting, so I'll make this quick. One quick thing though: Microsoft's Mark Heckler and I are doing a webinar later today - register now and join us - looking at how to take Spring Boot applications to production on Microsoft Azure and with Microsoft technologies. This is going to be a ton of fun, don't miss it! I love Matt's latest tutorial…

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