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

Premiering: Bootiful Kotlin

Engineering | October 15, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this talk Spring Developer Advocate, Java Champion, and Kotlin Google Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) introduces the Kotlin ecosystem, the language, and its application when building server-side Spring applications.

This is a roving tour of all things Kotlin, and there's a lot to cover, including:

  • building Android applications with Kotlin on mobile devices
  • building native applications with Kotlin and Kotlin Native ((m)alloc, pointers, and POSIX APIs, oh, my!)
  • giving existing APIs like the venerable JdbcTemplate a fresh coat of paint with Kotlin
  • using Kotlin ecosystem libraries like the Exposed ORM with Spring
  • using rich DSLs such as those provided for Spring Framework's programmatic bean registration, HTTP endpoints, and for Spring Cloud Gateway
  • kicking up our reactive applications a notch with coroutines

A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Patrick McFadin on DataStax Astra, Cassandra, Cassandra data modeling patterns, and more

Engineering | October 15, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks about all the wonderful shows he's been at, the epic new support for Kubernetes-ready native images in Spring Boot 2.3 and Spring Boot 2.4, and then he talks to DataStax's own Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin), a legend in the JVM and Cassandra communities, and an all around amiable gent.

This Week in Spring - October 13th, 2020

Engineering | October 13, 2020 | ...

This Week in Spring - October 6th, 2020

Engineering | October 07, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a fun week thus far - I spoke Monday at the first ever Garden State JUG event on testing Spring-based application and services and then today I spoke at the NYJava SIG about RSocket. Thank you so much for having me!

I can't believe it's already October 6th! We're closer to 2021 than 2019. Crazy. A quarter of a year to go. I just write these roundups and things seem to fly as a result.

We've got a lot to get to, so let's dive right in

This Week in Spring - September 29th, 2020

Engineering | September 29, 2020 | ...

This Week in Spring - September 22, 2020

Engineering | September 22, 2020 | ...

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