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 - November 1st, 2022

Engineering | October 31, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I hope you're doing well and had a great Halloween if you celebrate. I'm doing great. I'm in sunny Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, eating delicious food and hanging out with amazing people. Tomorrow, I'm off to Penang, Malaysia, for a little tourism before I get back to a more code-driven kinda fun: I'll be doing a developer event looking at the latest-and-greatest from Spring Boot 3 here in Kuala Lumpur on the 11th of November - ten short days from now! - so please join me!

Also, I just joined Mastodon - a decentralized and open-source Twitter; I'm not leaving Twitter, of course, but I would love to make new friends and grow the community there: @starbuxman@mastodon.online

Spring Tips: the road to Spring Boot 3: Spring Framework 6

Engineering | October 26, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we begin a journey to Spring Boot 3, due end of November 2022. In this installment, we'll look - at a very high level - at some of the amazing features in Spring Framework 6, which underpins Spring Boot 3.

Want to learn more about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3? Join us at SpringOne 2022! use the code S1VM22_Advocate_200 for $200 off the price of admission!

This Week in Spring - October 25th, 2022

Engineering | October 24, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! When last we spoke, I was in Las Vegas, NV, for the JavaOne show. It was amazing! I'm in sunny Singapore, then off to Malaysia and Thailand. It's the first time I've been to any of these places since 2019! How good it is to be back! I've so missed it.

The Spring team is busy preparing for both Spring Boot 3 (and the Spring Framework 6 release that underpins it) and SpringOne 2022. Have you booked your ticket for SpringOne 2022 yet? It's going to be held in sunny San Francisco, and - of course - it'll be the absolute best…

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir Selvasingh on Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, application security, and more

Engineering | October 20, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxma) talks to his friend, Microsoft's Asir Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh), about Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, Spring, application security, and more. Want to learn more? Join us at SpringOne (6-8 December 2022)!

Want to meet amazing people like Asir? Join us at SpringOne 2022! Register now and get $200 off with this discount code S1VM22_Advocate_200.

This Week in Spring - October 18th, 2022

Engineering | October 18, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doin'? I'm doin' alright! Last week I was in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx BE show. I did a presentation with my friend and hero James Ward on Spring and Kotlin (that was voted third most-liked talk at a show with more than 250 speakers!) That was a personal career highlight for me - it's not often you get to win and have fun in life. And, as if that wasn't awesome enough, this week I am in Las Vegas, NV, for JavaOne! Fingers crossed, this week will go smoothly, too! Both Devoxx and JavaOne are the first such shows since at least before the pandemic. It's…

Spring at JavaOne 2022

Engineering | October 16, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's Sunday the 16th of October as I write this and I'm winging my way to sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, where I'll be attending (and presenting at) the first JavaOne show in years! It didn't exist as the JavaOne we know and love for years, even before the pandemic interrupted life as we know it worldwide. So this isn't just the first JavaOne since 2019, it's the first JavaOne since 2017! I can't wait to be there, to see the amazing community, to soak up the sun and fun with my teammates and friends in the ecosystem. And we want to see you, too.

There are a few of us doing talks…

Learn more about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3 in these two great talks from Devoxx 2022

Engineering | October 15, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! I was just at Devoxx in Belgium, where hundreds of experts from across the Java ecosystem converged for the first time since 2019 to deliver their biggest and best.

I could do a proper trip report, but I really just came here to point you to two talks from two of my amazing teammates, Stéphane Nicoll (@snicoll) and Brian Clozel (@bclozel), who have been very hard at work on both Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, both of which will land by the end of November, 2022. These are brand new generations of the framework, implying huge new paradigms and new opportunities for…

A Bootiful Podcast: Google mad scientist Josh Suereth on Observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more

Engineering | October 13, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the latest and greatest in Spring Boot 3 AOT, then talks to Google's Josh Suereth (@jsuereth) about observability with OpenTelemetry, building better build tools, and so much more.

Want to learn more about Spring Boot and the wider ecosystem? SpringOne 2022 is almost here! If you want a chance to learn from the source, I hope you’ll join us 6-8 December 2022, right here in my hometown of San Francisco, my favorite west coast city in the USA. (Psst.: If you register now, there’s a $200 discount from the pass price with this…

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