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 - August 30th, 2022

Engineering | August 30, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How are you? How're you doin' this fine tuesday morning? I'm doing well, of course, because this week VMware's tentpole show - VMware Explore - is happening not even a mile from my home, here in San Francisco! And this is just the first one - there'll be another show, my favorite show, in December: SpringOne 2022! I sure hope you've registered and that we'll see you there! Indeed, I've got a lunch to get to, so let's get this this week's wrapup done a little more quickly: without further ado.... A Bootiful Podcast: Fellow Java Champion and TimescaleDB developer advocate…

This Week in Spring - August 23rd, 2022

Engineering | August 23, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton to cover, so let's dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Flowable founder Joram Barrez on a Bootiful Podcast on workflow, business process management, and more Building IoT Applications Using Fauna and Spring Cosmos DB for Spring Developers, Part I: Using Cosmos DB as a SQL Database How to Build Web Servers with Paketo Buildpacks - Paketo Buildpacks Introducing Experimental Spring Support for Apache Pulsar Propagating Exceptions With OpenFeign and Spring Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0-M1 available now…

This Week in Spring - August 16th, 2022

Engineering | August 16, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonder-filled installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a week! Sometimes I can scarcely believe it myself. And can you believe it's August 16th already?? My daughter's starting school this week! We're in the northern hemisphere, and Summer break is already over and done with for her. There's still another month and some change of summer, officially, though. So, I hope you all are doing whatever you can to maximize your enjoyment of it before the darker and colder months arrive. Twitter helps me pass the time. I've been working on some code and wanted to…

This Week in Spring - August 9th, 2022

Engineering | August 09, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine Tuesday? I'm in Kansas City for the Kansas City Developer Conference. It's a crazy fun show, and I'm glad to be here. I only wish the rest of you were here, too! We've got a packed This Week in Spring, however, so let's dive right into it. snicoll/demo-aot-native: Demo of a basic webapp using Ahead-Of-Time compilation A Bootiful Podcast: Observability guru Jonatan Ivanov on the future of observability in Spring Boot Blog: Kubernetes Removals and Major Changes In 1.25 Building a Topic Exchange with…

This Week in Spring - August 1st, 2022

Engineering | August 02, 2022 | ...
Aloha, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm still on vacation on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, but I wanted to say hello ("aloha!") and share this week's latest roundup of all that's good and glorious in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Funny thing, today - the 2nd of August, 2022 - is also my 12-year anniversary on the Spring team. It continues to be a helluva ride, and I so look forward to all that lies ahead. Thank you, Spring team, for everything. Also, sort of coincidentally, I just got a nice promotion. (Thanks, Spring team and VMware…

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