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

Go, Go, GraalVM with Spring Native: My Adventures in Native Image-ville

Engineering | December 29, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Happy new year! I can't believe we quickly got this far, but we did. This last year's been insanely busy, and one of the things I've most loved is all the opportunities to use Spring Native to build GraalVM-powered architecture-specific native images. We released Spring Native 0.11, which is fantastic because it features a brand new AOT (ahead-of-time) engine that completely reworks how we transpile Spring Boot applications into GraalVM native images. I've been working with GraalVM a lot over the last two years, and this new release is a vast, revolutionary step in the story…

This Year in Spring - December 28th, 2021

Engineering | December 28, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doin'? I'm fresh off a fantastic holiday spent with family in Los Angeles, California. Later today, the girls and I will drive home to San Francisco, California. I've enjoyed my visits with people here in Los Angeles, especially since it's our first actual visit to Los Angeles before the pandemic. And now, (can you believe it?), we're staring down the new year. As always, I will do my yearly This Year in Spring roundup, so stay tuned for that below, after our weekly roundup. So, without further ado, here's the last This Week in Spring recap of 2021. A Bootiful…

Spring Tips: @Controllers: Wrap Up

Engineering | December 22, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we conclude our tour of all things @Controller and look at how to distinguish one controller from another with the judicious use of Spring's stereotype annotations. WebSockets MVC REST RSocket GraphQL Happy holidays and happy new year!

This Week in Spring - December 21st, 2021

Engineering | December 21, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! What a crazy wonderful week it's been and what a wonderful week it'll be! It's the holidays. I've set my out-of-office status and am already winding down for the year. You can expect new episodes of This Week in Spring and a Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), of course, but I won't be doing any new Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) videos until next year. That said, I can't wait for you to see what I'm cooking up for the new installmetn of Spring Tips! It's going to be a ton of fun! Now then, we've got a crazy amount of stuff to get to this week. Let's dive right into it. It'll…

This Week in Spring - December 14th, 2021

Engineering | December 14, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm doing alright! It's noon as I write this, and I've got GSUG joint presentation with Matt Raible later today. Then, tonight at midnight my time to 5 am or 6 am, I'm kicking off a two-day workshop for GOTO! I look forward to seeing ya there! Anyway, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive into it! Read this first! If you've been living under a rock, you may not have heard of the recent Log4J2 vulnerability. If you're using the default, out-of-the-box Spring Boot logging support, then this does not apply to…

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