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 - May 9th, 2023

Engineering | May 09, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful, fancyful installment of This Week in Spring! I was just at the first Devoxx GR, in the sunny mediterranean city of Athens, Greece. Uh, yah, this was a good'un. If you can get to it, you should. Don't miss next year's installment if you missed this one. And now, I'm in London, for one of my all time favorite shows, Devoxx UK. Are you going to Devoxx UK? Come find me! I'll be talking about Spring Boot 3, and it should be fun. After this, I'm off to Germany where I may be appearing at a JUG near Wolfsburg (I'll keep you posted). Then, it's off to…

This Week in Spring - May 2, 20223

Engineering | May 02, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! You realize it's already May, 2023? Time's flying, way too quickly! I just got back from Bangalore, India, where I spoke at the amazing Great International Developer Summit, one of the all time best shows ever, and now I'm already gearing up to hit the road in May for a mini Spring Boot 3.1 European (and UK) tour! I'll be in Athens, Greece, for Devoxx GR (4-6 May); I'll be in London, UK, for Devoxx UK (10-12 May); I'll be in Barcelona, Spain, for Spring I/O (18-19 May); I'll be in Belgrade, Serbia (20-21 May) for ITKonekt…

This Week in Spring - April 25th, 2023

Engineering | April 25, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm en route to Bangalore, India, via Frankfurt, for the Developer Summit 2023 edition. It's going to be a ton of fun, and I hope you won't miss it! para Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 available now One of the most exciting new features in Spring Boot 3.1 RC1 is the new support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose at development time. I did a video introducing these new features here Spring Boot 2.7.11 available now fixing CVE-2023-20873 Spring Boot 3.0.6 available now fixing CVE-2023-20873 Spring Boot Debugging with…

This Week in Spring - April 18th, 2023

Engineering | April 18, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I just returned from Western Europe for Devoxx FR (Paris) and Kotlin Conf (Amsterdam). I went home, saw my family, did some laundry, and then turned right back around to head to Chicago, Illinois, for a special joint session of the Chicago Kotlin and Java Users Group tonight where I'll be copresenting with my pal, field CTO Justin Reock. It's going to be a ton of fun! Don't miss out! A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on…

A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security

Engineering | April 13, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like security. I wrote an e-book on AOT and GraalVM support in Spring Boot 3 Check out this roving 1 hour tour of Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains channel I did a 6m video looking at Spring Boot 3 for the impatient on my channel want a great free resource to learn Spring Boot? Check out the Spring.academy

This Week in Spring - April 11th, 2023

Engineering | April 11, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then I after. I am super excited to learn from her! Then, I join James Ward and we'll speak at Kotlin Conf. Then, I take a quick train to Paris to speak at Devoxx Fr. I hope if you're about you'll join me at any of these talks. Want to learn the nitty gritty of using Spring Cloud's Azure Key Vault…

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