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 - September 28th, 2021

Engineering | September 28, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm with my buddy Matt Raible preparing for what I'm hoping will be an awesome San Francisco JUG joint appearance on Wednesday this week! I've got to get back to that! But I did want to get through this roundup because it's enormous! So, without further ado: Spring Initializr 0.11.0 available now In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring web legend Rossen Stoyanchev on RSocket, GraphQL and more Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit Spring Boot 2.4.11 available now Spring Boot 2.5.5 available now Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring - September 21st, 2021

Engineering | September 21, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo! A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All How much faster is Java 17? In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream…

Spring Tips: A Bootiful Look at SpringOne 2021

Engineering | September 15, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm joined by teammates Tiffany Jernigan and Mario Gray as we recap some of our favorite talks from the just-finished SpringOne 2021 event! Did you miss the show? (why)? Fret not: we'll look at some of our favorite moments from SpringOne 2021!

This Week in Spring - September 14th, 2021

Engineering | September 14, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! It's September 14th! I can't believe it. I know this is a common refrain on my weekly posts, but can you believe it's already nearly Fall and Winter? What is happening?? How'd we get here so quickly? Anyway, how are you doin'? I'm doing alright! It's been kinda a crazy week. I was in the studio all day and some of the night yesterday filming a new Livelessons video that I can't wait for y'all to see. (But be forewarned: there will be .YAML!) Then, at 3am my time, I did a presentation for the Japanese Java User Group. This would be one thing in of itself, but what made this…

This Week in Spring - September 7th, 2021

Engineering | September 07, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! I am still reeling from the craziness of last week's SpringOne event! That doesn't mean that the world's stood still in the interim though! Quite the contrary! There's a ton of things to get to this week so without further ado let's go! In last week's, A Bootiful Podcast, I briefly recap some of the excitement from SpringOne 2021 and then talked Jackson and Woodstox creator Tatu Saloranta I loved Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller's post A Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9 baseline for Spring Framework 6 Announcing Spring Data YugabyteDB - The Distributed SQL Blog Announcing VMware…

Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace in Azure Spring Cloud!

Engineering | September 01, 2021 | ...
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform in Azure Spring Cloud. Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using solutions their developers are familiar with and have been using for years. In addition, they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile…

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