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: Ambassador Labs devrel director, InfoQ contributor, lifelong learner, and awesome human, and friend Daniel Bryant

Engineering | April 09, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Ambassador Labs devrel director, InfoQ contributor, lifelong learner, and awesome human, and friend Daniel Bryant (@danielbryantuk). the Ambassador Office Hours Sign up for the Rapid Development with Azure Spring Cloud webinar that Microsoft's Julien Dubois and I are putting on April 15th, 2021.

This Week in Spring - April 6th, 2021

Engineering | April 06, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doing alright, thank you. We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in! Join Julien Dubois and me for this look at a rapid development with Azure Spring Cloud A Bootiful Podcast: SpringFox creator Marty Pitt on Swagger, Vyne and Taxi lang, and much more A new Microsoft build of OpenJDK will become the default in Azure API Rate Limiting with Spring Cloud Gateway Blog: PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future Check out the new release of Spring Cloud SleuthOpenTelemetry…

This Week in Spring - March 30th, 2021

Engineering | March 30, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's nearly April? Time sure flies when you're having fun! There's a lot of good stuff to get to this week, particularly around the nascent and just announced Spring Native project which people seem to love, so let's get to it! The amazing Andy Clement and I presented on Spring Native and GraalVM at JRush last week. Here's the recording A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time…

A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend

Engineering | March 26, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to one of the most inspiring people in the technology world, a friend, and inspiration, Mr. Shigeru Urushibara (@urucrunch). Urushibara-san is a Java and Spring programmer and a general technology enthusiast. He's founder, president, and director of ULS Group Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Tokyo that is listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange and that employs hundreds of people. He's a friend of the Java community and we're honored to have him on the show.

This Week in Spring - March 23rd, 2021

Engineering | March 24, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, director of Spring engineering and Spring Native cofounder Andy Clement and I will be doing a presentation with Bellsoft's Dmitry Chuyko called Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three, that introduces how to build GraalVM native images for Spring Boot applications with the new Spring Native project. Do not miss this webinar on March 25th at 11 am. Join Spring Cloud for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling for this webinar, GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes, on March…

SpringOne Tour 2021: #Booternetes

Engineering | March 24, 2021 | ...
Join Josh Long (@starbuxman), Nate Schutta, Mark Heckler (@mkheck), Cora Iberkleid (@ciberkleid), Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski), and Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) for this journey from code with Spring Boot to production on Kubernetes. For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel

Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three

Engineering | March 23, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! I hope you'll join the legendary Andy Clement (director of engineering on the Spring team, Spring/AspectJ/Spring Tool Suite/Eclipse contributor, and Spring Native cofounder) and me, well known ASCII art fan, for the upcoming JRUSH event. At some point, after you've gotten the business logic just right and the ASCII art resplendent, you'll want to reduce data center spend and improve speed. And when this time comes, you're going to wish you had watched this presentation where Andy and Josh introduce the Spring Native project. You don't want regrets, do you, friend? Do the right…

Bootiful Cassandra with DataStax's Patrick McFadin, Cedrick Lunven, and Spring's Josh Long

Engineering | March 22, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! DataStax and Spring are the classic Netflixian definition of a cloud-native, and for good reason: they scales they're easy they're easily operationalized In this video, join DataStax's Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin), Cedrick Lunven (@clunven), and the Spring team's Josh Long (@starbuxman) as they introduce Bootiful Cassandra and look at some of the technology that continues to power some of the largest websites on the planet. Register for DataStax Astra now and try this code anytime. You don't need a credit card, and you get $25.00 USD credit every month, which gives you…

An Azure Spring Cloud Update: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud

Engineering | March 18, 2021 | ...
NOTE: this post was written by our friend Kylie Liang (@liangkylie) from the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team. Thanks, Kylie! We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale features. Both are critical to securely running production workloads at scale on the Azure Spring Cloud service. Secure Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Network With the Managed Virtual Network feature, you can provision the Azure Spring Cloud service in your virtual network which enables: Isolation of Azure Spring Cloud apps and service runtime…

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