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 - February 4th, 2020

Engineering | February 05, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished spending a wonderful afternoon with customers and now I'm pouring through all the wonderful new content for this week. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! The Java at Microsoft blog has a nice recap of what’s new in Azure Spring Cloud Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.0.M1 Released Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9 Released Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 Released Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1 are available Spring…

"The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim

Engineering | January 30, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) about #DevOps, his experience of the industry, IT organizations and a MILLION TRILLION other things. I'd listen to this one first! The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project

This Week in Spring - January 28th, 2020

Engineering | January 28, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! How're things, my friends? Can you believe we're already nearly at the end of January? I have been knee-deep in code and coffee for these last several days and I'm running late for a meeting so, without further ado, let's get to it! Creating Docker images with Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 M1 Released Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.3.1 Released In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Neo4j's mad scientist Michael Hunger on graphs, databases, and relationships Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 is now available Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 1 Available Spring Tools…

Neo4j's mad scientist Michael Hunger on graphs, databases and relationships

Engineering | January 24, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j's mad scientist (and the nicest robot you've ever met!), and one of the most brilliant and generous people around, Michael Hunger (@mesirii), about all things graph, relationships and more.

This Week in Spring - January 21st, 2020

Engineering | January 21, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's 6 am Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, and I'm buckled in and ready to take off for Atlanta, Georgia (by way of Denver, Colorado...), where I'll be speaking at the Atlanta Java User Group tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone there. It's my first JUG appearance in the new year, too! So, let's get to it! Spring Boot 2.2.4 released Spring Vault 2.2.1.RELEASE and 2.1.5.RELEASE available In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Cloud Services' Bella (Yuxin) Bai Spring Boot 2.2.3 released Spring Boot 2.1.12 released Spring Framework 5.2.3,…

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Services' Bella (Yuxin) Bai

Engineering | January 17, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Services teammate Bella (Yuxin) Bai.

This Week in Spring - January 14th, 2020

Engineering | January 14, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! What a week! I have ... nothing... happening this week! You know why? I had jury duty for which I was summonsed in mid-2019. I had to postpone it since I was on the road. I finally report to the court to serve as a juror for some trial unknown, this month, January 2020, and I was there... for maybe two hours. I was excused! You should definitely do your civic duty, of course. But, it was awesome to have it over and done within a few hours. I had blocked out the entire week, just in case. So, now I'm working on my Reactive Spring book, writing a ton of code to support…

A Bootiful Podcast: Pivotal Labs Sydney director David Julia

Engineering | January 10, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Pivotal Labs Sydney director David Julia (@DavidJulia) about applied agile, testing strategy, architecture and more.

This Week in Spring - 9th Anniversary Edition - January 7, 2020

Engineering | January 07, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This is also the 9th anniversary of the This Week in Spring blog series. I started it the first Tuesday after the new year in January 2011. NINE years is a long time, and it's been - and continues to be - a ton of fun. I've never missed an installment - every Tuesday for almost a decade, come heck or high water - I get this done. It's always on Tuesday, my time - whatever time that is. If I'm in Tokyo or Shanghai or Sydney then the installment may very well post sometime in most people's Monday, or if I'm in California or…

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot and Spring Cloud co-founder Dr. Dave Syer

Engineering | January 03, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long talks to the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing, his hero, the good Dr. Dave Syer, Spring Framework committer, former Spring Batch lead, former Spring Security OAuth lead, co-founder of both Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, etc. Statistically, if you're using Spring today, you're probably using code he wrote. This episode was recorded at SpringOne Platform 2019. Happy new year, and enjoy! Dave on Github Dave on Twitter