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: thought leader Chris Richardson (and no, I'm not using that title ironically!)

Engineering | September 29, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend Chris Richardson (@crichardson), who helped articulate and advance cloud computing, reactive programming, microservices, domain-driven design, event sourcing, and so much more years before the zeitgeist. Also, we used to work together! Want to meet more amazing people in our ecosystem, like Chris? SpringOne 2022 is almost here! I feel like it’s that anxious, exciting time before, sort of important holiday where you get given gifts! And with it, Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6. We’re going to be announcing…

This Week in Spring - September 27th, 2022

Engineering | September 27, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the last week of September, already! The year's more done than not. The days are receding into darkness earlier. And the Pumpkin Spice Lattes are upon us. The darker and colder days are kind of a bummer, but I'm stil excited and overjoyed this time of year. You know why? SpringOne 2022 is almost here! I feel like it's that anxious, exciting time before sort of important holiday where you get given gifts! And with it, Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6. We're going to be announcing everything right here on the Spring…

My SpringOne 2022

Engineering | September 23, 2022 | ...
It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate and understand that the devil is in the details regarding software development. Writing happy-path business logic isn't the hard part! It's the failure cases, observability, resilience, and process. It's security and other so-called non-functional requirements. It's architecting for agility. It's production. Spring is unique because it sits at the crossroads of many exciting application development discussions. Spring's community contains multitudes and is one of the key defining features. This diversity of discussion means that any…

A Bootiful Podcast: Couchbase and Cloud legend Laurent Doguin

Engineering | September 22, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend, fellow Java Champion, and director of developer relations and strategy at Couchbase, Laurent Doguin (@ldoguin) SpringOne 2022 is almost here! This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December in my sunny San Francisco, CA! Register now at SpringOne.io and use the code S1VM22_Advocate_200 to get $200 off the current registration price.

This Week in Spring - September 20th, 2022

Engineering | September 20, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein I endeavor as best as I can to capture the latest-and-greatest in the wide, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom! Naturally, I fail miserably basically every week. There's no way I could hope to capture everything of note. But I persist... Are you coming to SpringOne 2022? This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December here in my hometown of sunny San Francisco…

This Week in Spring - September 13th, 2022

Engineering | September 13, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot of good stuff to get to so let's dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring Security JWT I also loved Dan's video on Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter Dispatching Queries in Axon Framework Guide to Find the Java .class Version Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released Static Fields and Garbage Collection Blog: Announcing the Auto…

This Week in Spring - September 5th, 2022

Engineering | September 06, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How are you? It's a fantastic Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2022, and I couldn't be happier. It's also Labor Day weekend here in the US. It marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad. But, on the upside, it's a four-day weekend for me! I'm technically off today. So, you'll forgive me, but I won't spend too much time here. Let's dive right into this week's roundup! A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Kris De Volder on Spring Tools, VS Code, and so much more Connect to Multiple Databases Using Spring Data Mongodb End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry I love this article by…

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