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 - April 12th, 2022 (Devnexus 2022 Edition!!)

Engineering | April 12, 2022 | ...
This Week in Spring - Devnexus Edition Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - I'm at my first in-person event since the virus: Devnexus! WOOHOOO!! Well, technically I'm still in San Francisco as I write this, but I'll be in Atlanta, GA tomorrow for... Devnexus! I hope if you're there that you'll reach out! Friends, colleagues, and community members from the Spring, Tanzu, and adjoining communities will also be there! Here are some of the people I hope to nab a selfie with and whose talks I hope to see! Glenn Renfro Adib Saikali Joe Grandja Whitney Lee…

This Week in Spring - April 5th, 2022

Engineering | April 05, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm back home from the Hawaiin islands. It's so good to be home. First thing's first: there's a security vulnerability. We've already released guidance on how to mitigate as well as new releases of Spring Framework and Spring Boot that include the mitigation by deault. See the links below for more. Spring Framework RCE, Early Announcement Spring Framework RCE, Mitigation Alternative CVE report published for Spring Cloud Function Now, back to your regularly scheduled installment of This Week in Spring: A Bootiful Podcast…

Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is Now Generally Available

Engineering | March 30, 2022 | ...
NOTE: Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from Sean Li, our friend at Microsoft I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is now generally available. With this major release we aim to bring better security, leaner dependencies, support for production readiness and more. Version 4 represents a significant milestone in our product roadmap that we couldn’t have delivered without the collective wisdom of the Spring community and customer feedback. On behalf of the Spring on Azure product team, thank you for making this happen! Unified Development Experience At the Developer Division…

This Week in Spring - March 29th, 2022

Engineering | March 29, 2022 | ...
Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. It's our daughter's Spring break and so we're enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this week's installment out for y'all, so let's dive right into it! A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns An update on Java 17 adoption Build To Manage: Proper Exception Handling Makes Your Applications Easier to Build and Manage CVE report published for…

A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns

Engineering | March 24, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to event streaming guru at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, Jan Svoboda about Apache Kafka design patterns. Kafka summit in London Europe end of April 2022 Kafka Summit London 2022 | April 25-26 | London, UK the Confluent Developer Education Portal: Your Apache Kafka® Journey begins here check out the upcoming Kafka Summit London event April 25-26, 2022

Spring Tips: Multitenant JDBC

Engineering | March 23, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at how to use Spring's AbstractRoutingDataSource to build multi-tenant JDBC database code. code: https://github.com/spring-tips/multitenant-jdbc speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Building Native Images with GraalVM and Spring Native on Apple's M1 Architecture

Engineering | March 23, 2022 | ...
It finally happened! They did it! They did it just in time for me to get on the road and start building applications on the road with my shiny new laptop, too! JOY!! Oracle and the GraalVM team released GraalVM and the GraalVM native image capability for Apple M1! I've been waiting for this day for so, so, so long! I bought the first Apple M1 the day of the announcement way back in 2020 (does anybody remember that far back? That was, meteorologically speaking, the early pandemic period). Apple's M1 devices are insanely fast, energy-efficient beasts of machines that run circles around all but…

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