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: InfoQ editor and Java Champion, Dr. Alex Blewitt

Engineering | February 24, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to InfoQ editor and contributor, fellow Java Champion, and an all-around amazing human being Dr. Alex Blewitt. the creator of bash, readline, etc.: Brian Fox Reload4j is the version which has Log4j 1.x compatibility with CVEs fixed Alex's blog and speaker deck Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

This Week in Spring - 22/2/22

Engineering | February 22, 2022 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doing alright, thank you! I'm really excited about this week, too, because it features a ton of cool stuff. Also, it's 22/2/22! And I posted this at 22:22! :D Spring Tips: Spring Native and MyBatis A Bootiful Podcast: Java team luminary Sharat Chander Announcing ListCrudRepository and Friends for Spring Data 3.0 Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview Matt Raible on Twitter talking about getting a full JHipster application working with Spring Native :-) I worked with the folks behind the…

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…

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