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: Benjamin Wilms, founder of the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot and Steadybit, a company to help you build more robust software

Engineering | July 01, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I am so happy to talk to Benjamin Wilms, who founded the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot, and recently co-founded - along with Spring Boot Admin cofounder Johannes Edemeir - an exciting company called Steadybit whose SaaS tool aims to make your systems and services more robust. @MrBWilms @steadybithq

This Week in Spring - June 29th, 2021

Engineering | June 29, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've been busy working on new Spring Tips videos! (You are subscribed to our YouTube channel, aren't you?) I'll be doing Tanzu Code tomorrow, so don't miss that. We're going to be hacking on Spring Native, Spring Cloud Square, Spring Integration, and so much more. Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at Kubernetes Native Java A Bootiful Podcast: webassembly, IoT, data science, and Java guru Brian Sletten Blog: Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports CVE report…

This Week in Spring - June 22nd, 2021

Engineering | June 22, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're y'all doing? Can you believe we're almost halfway through this crazy little thing called 2021? Time sure flies when you're having fun! This week was no exception. I joined the my buddy Matt Raible and Brian Demeers today for the OktaDev Twitch channel and we hacked on making the Spring Boot starter for Okta work with Spring Native. The goal is that you should be able to bring your application unchanged with Spring Native, and this is yet another example of that working. We didn't know what issues we were going to face, but we managed to figure out the relatively minor…

This Week in Spring - June 15th, 2021

Engineering | June 16, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm silly stoked! This week saw the release of Spring Native 0.10.0 and it is awesome! You absolutely have to check this release out. I put together an episode of Spring Tips, the most comprehensive of its kind, introducing (almost) everything you'll need to know about Spring Native and Spring Native 0.10.0 in particular. Start here. Spring Native is awesome and this is the comprehensive introduction I wish I'd had at the start. The next time we meet in this humble column, next week, will be June 22nd, and by then we'll have passed summer solstice - the…

This Week in Spring - June 8th, 2021

Engineering | June 09, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! What's shaking? It's one of those weeks where, even though the thing I wanted to happen - a vacation with the family - didn't happen, what did happen - accidentally lots of free time with no meetings - has turned out wonderfully. It was all I could do to pry myself from the IDE to pull together this week's roundup, but I am glad I did! There's a ton of great stuff there. Let's dive into it. I love this post by the good Dr. David Syer: "Wiremock" for RSocket In this week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, JHipster creator and Microsoft Java Developer Advocacy manager Julien…

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