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 - October 27th, 2020

Engineering | October 27, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already nearly November in this crazy rollercoaster ride that is 2020. Crazy. We've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's waste not a second more. Spring Framework 5.3 goes GA This is a huge release, and the most important thing we'll look at today. Go read this post first. This release includes a ton of new features! A Bootiful Podcast: Optic CEO Aidan Cunniffe on OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more I loved this case study that talks about how VMware (my employer) uses Kotlin Case Studies: VMware - Kotlin…

This Week in Spring - October 20, 2020

Engineering | October 20, 2020 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? It's been unseasonably warm here in San Francisco so I am writing this from my balcony with a warm cup of coffee and hope in my heart. It is still very hard to believe we're near Halloween, though! Crazy how time flies. There's lots of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it! Hopefully you can enjoy this week's news from some warm, safe and healthy spot in your life, too. A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Patrick McFadin on DataStax Astra, Cassandra, Cassandra data modeling patterns, and more A…

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…

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 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There's just so much to talk about this week and I scarcely know where to start so let's just get into it. A Bootiful Podcast: Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer Audrey Neveu A look at the Sentry Spring Boot starter Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M9 (alpha) is out Documenting Spring Boot Microservices with Optic Dr. B Talks About IoT and Edge Technology in Open Source and Why It’s Important Google Cloud now supports buildpacks | Google Cloud Blog JDK 15 Security Enhancements Last Call: VMworld…

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 I wrote a preface for a Chinese-language book on reactive programming with…

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