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

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview

Engineering | February 16, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to share this post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division at Microsoft. When we launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019, we set out to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve had the opportunity to work with many customers to help them adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan Stanley, National Life, Raley’s, and Swiss Re. They value the fully managed infrastructure of Azure Spring Cloud that lets them focus on their apps…

This Week in Spring - February 15th, 2022

Engineering | February 15, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it. Spring Tips: IO, IO, It's Off To Work We Go - this video took off! In it, I introduce IO, NIO, and Netty as a way to understand what we mean when we talk about blocking and non-blocking. Spring Boot Reference Documentation has been updated to include Kotlin Spring Data — Never Rollback Readonly Transactions Feb 1 - What's new in Spring Boot 2.6? Preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 With Prototype of Context Receivers, Parallel Compilation on JVM, Incremental Compilation in JS, and…

This Week in Spring - February 8th, 2022

Engineering | February 08, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doin' well. Got a lot of exciting stuff to share with you in the near future so check this space! We've got a ton to get to this week so let's dive right in! A Bootiful Podcast: Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm Introduce example value object implemented as record. · xmolecules/jmolecules-examples@4e60942 Spring Shell 2.1.0-M2 is now available Spring Tools 4.13.1 released the initial Micrometer 2.0.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0 observability is on its way to Spring…

This Week in Spring - February 1st, 2022

Engineering | February 01, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! It's a new Lunar year, so that's exciting, and I just celebrated my birthday, and that of my late father, as well. That was exciting. But there was also some bittersweet news. Let's get that out of the way first... My friend, my hero, Stéphane Maldini, former project lead of Project Reactor and cofounder of the Reactive Streams initiative, passed away two months ago. We in the Java community made him a Java Champion posthumously. We miss him dearly. I think of him when I write reactive code. Mon ami, mon héros, Stéphane Maldini, ancien lead de l'equipe Reactor et cofondateur…

This Week in Spring - January 25th, 2022

Engineering | January 25, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already the 25th of the first month of a brand new year!? And we're fast approaching the Lunar New Year, often also called the Chinese New Year, which will arrive next Tuesday. Reunion dinner will be on the 31st of January, and the two weeks of celebration will begin. All that to say that this is my last real chance, speaking I'm sure for the entire Tanzu team, to wish everyone around the planet (billions of people!) who celebrates a very happy Lunar New Year (Mandarin: 新年快乐 (pronounced: xin nian kauai le ) / Cantonese: 新年快乐 (pronounced: san nin fai lok…

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