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

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine on the latest and greatest in 2023

Engineering | March 16, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine (@FMBENHASSINE) about the latest and greatest in Spring Batch. notes Submit your talk to SpringOne@Explore, being held August 21-24, 2023, in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada! I wrote an e-book looking at how to do AOT processing with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM. It's free - and a fairly quick read - so get it while you can! I streamed this interview with Mahmoud live on my channel - you can watch it there, too, if you prefer I wrote a blog…

This Week in Spring - March 14th, 2023

Engineering | March 14, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Pi (π) day! And, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's pouring cats and dogs here in San Francisco! The news is talking about atmospheric rivers; I don't know what that means but I don't know that I want to find out. Anyway, all that to say: I'm glad as always for an opportunity to stay indoors and learn. We've got a lot to review this week so let's dive right into it! I did a video for our friends at Jetbrains on the IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel and people seem to like it. Perhaps you will too? Bootiful Spring Boot 3 - YouTube In it, I look at…

The SpringOne@Explore Calls for Paper is Open!

News | March 08, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! The Spring community is everything. Without your voice, there is no Spring. And we love to hear from you. Make your voice heard and submit a talk for the SpringOne@Explore conference being held in tandem with VMWare Explore in Las Vegas August 21st to 24th, 2023. See you in Vegas!

This Week in Spring - March 7th, 2023

Engineering | March 07, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it. Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in Reactive Programming | Gökhan Ayrancıoğlu - Software Engineer, Blogger I'll be joining Mark Thomas, legendary contributor to Apache Tomcat, live at 9am here . Join us, bring your questions, etc. JRebel has a nice look at the New Features in Spring Framework 6 | JRebel by Perforce Authenticating Users…

This Week in Spring - February 28th, 2023

Engineering | February 28, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this installment from a hotel room in Dallas, Texas, in the USA. Last night I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my friends from the local Java scene. Today I meet with customers. It's going to be a nice few days indeed. Spring Authorization Server 1.0.1 and 0.4.1 available now Spring Authorization Server 1.1.0-M1 available now Spring Boot 2.7.9 available now Spring Boot 3.1.0-M1 available now Did you see this amazing video on Spring Framework 6: Infrastructure Themes by Spring cofounder and Spring…

This Week in Spring - February 21, 20223

Engineering | February 21, 2023 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you? I almost forgot today was Tuesday! Here in the US, we had a three day weekend for President's day, and also I've been streaming for a few hours every day (or almost every day on my little YouTube channel) so the days kinda have blurred together. I'm so glad I caught a glimpse of the calendar or I might have missed this installment. We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right into it! Also: next week I'll be in Dallas! Let me know if you wanna grab some code and coffee? Difference Between…

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