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 - June 6th, 2023

Engineering | June 06, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things as much as possible. In the case of at least one Vue.js application, this meant some major reworking of the codebase. It's also meant rewriting lots of Github Actions with the new best-practices and patterns, which I confess has been painful. Once everything's fully migrated (soon, I hope!), I think a…

This Week in Spring - May 30th, 2023

Engineering | May 30, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This installment I write on the day of my daughter's High School graduation, an auspicious day indeed! There's a lot to get through this week, though, and I have a graduation to get to, so let's dive right in! Spring Authorization Server is on Spring Initializr! This is my favorite technical news of the week, by far! I loved it so much that I even invited its author, Steve Riesenberg, on my little show. He and I (well, mostly him) did an awesome live demo setting up an Authorization Server, a Resource server, and OAuth…

This Week in Spring - May 23rd, 2023

Engineering | May 23, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 23rd and, famously, nothing major has happened in the last week OH WAIT WE RELEASED SPRING BOOT 3.1! Have you checked it out yet? It's dope. I did a Spring Tips installment looking at some of its features here that you might like. Friends, we've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's dive right into it! Spring Boot 3.1 is now available! If you want to learn all about Spring Boot 3.1 (and why wouldn't you?), watch this Spring Tips installment: Go fast with Spring Boot 3.1 Spring Boot 3.0.7 available now…

Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans

Engineering | May 23, 2023 | ...
In March, we introduced the Consumption pricing plan for Azure Spring Apps allowing you to start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Standard Dedicated plan! The Standard Dedicated plan provides a fully managed, dedicated environment for running Spring applications on Azure. This plan offers you customizable compute options (including memory-optimized), single tenancy, and high availability to help you achieve price predictability, cost savings, and performance for running Spring applications at scale. In 2019, Microsoft and Pivotal…

Spring Tips: go fast with Spring Boot 3.1

Engineering | May 18, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@coffeesoftware) looks at how the new Spring Boot 3.1 release delivers incredible efficiencies for both developers and machines. #Java #springboot #Microservices #Testcontainers #GraalVM #Docker #DockerCompose #Devtools #SSL

This Week in Spring - May 16th 2023

Engineering | May 16, 2023 | ...
My friends, Spring Boot 3.1 is nearly upon us! It drops on 18 May, in just a few short days! There are a ton of amazing features in this new release and I hope you're already trying it out (you know where). Here are some of my favorite features: Built in Docker Compose support - Have a docker-compose.yml in your project root? Add spring-boot-docker-compose as developmentOnly scope in Gradle or optinal in Maven and Spring Boot will automatically run it for you on startup and shut it down on application shutdown. Here's an example Built in Testcontainers support - You know Spring Boot has first…

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