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 - July 9th, 2019

Engineering | July 09, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it's off to Lima, Peru. It's figuring to be quite a week! As usual, we've got a lot to get to so let's do! Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released Hi Spring fans! In last week's extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being…

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.

Engineering | July 05, 2019 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Happy 4th to those of you who celebrate. In today's episode, I talk to the man, the myth, the legend, the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more. Dr. Subramaniam on Twitter (@venkat_s) a tweet asking that whatever recording I do with Dr. Subramaniam for the Bootiful Podcast be longer than an hour (wish granted!) The image from today's episode comes from a joint-talk that the good Dr. Subramaniam and I did in Atlanta, GA for the epic Devnexus conference. I am using the photo from Matt Raible…

This Week in Spring - July 2nd, 2019

Engineering | July 03, 2019 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm sunny summer-time San Francisco indulging in a little downtime. Last week was a doozy! I visited Tampa, Flordia; Paris, France; and finally Santiago, Dominican Republic. Later this week, after the 4th of July holiday here in the States, I'll head on over to Medellin, Columbia for JConf Columbia; Chicago, Illinois for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event; and then Lima, Peru for the JConf Peru event. I'm so looking forward to a few weeks of fun talking to amazing developers around the globe. If you're around…

Spring Tips - Season 6 Recap

Engineering | June 26, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! It's the end of yet another season of Spring Tips! I finished season 5 very recently, and had planned to leave it there for a month or two, but there were so many amazing things yet uncovered and constantly being released that I ended up releasing more episodes for what would become season 6. Now, I've finished season 6, and an extra episode besides, and will be taking a brief break to gather for the next season and take a few weeks to soak up and savor the summer season with my family. Please follow @SpringTipsLive on Twitter. I'd love any ideas you have for the new season. In…

This Week in Spring - June 25, 2019

Engineering | June 25, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today I'm in beautiful Tampla, Fl, where I got to talk to a wonderful Pivotal customer today. Now I'm at TPA airport preparing to board for Paris, France, for JHipsterConf. We've got a ton to cover so let's get to it! I just want to remind people that the majority of the Spring team is sponsored by the company Pivotal, an open-source powerhouse that sponsors among other things Spring, Cloud Foundry, a Kubernetes distribution, RabbitMQ, Jasmine, Apache Geode, Apache Tomcat, and a ton of other things. We've also got a deep…

This Week in Spring - June 18, 2019

Engineering | June 18, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in delightful Des Moines, Iowa; and then it's off to the twin cities of DescriptionMinneapolis–Saint Paul for the epic SpringOne Tour event there. We've got tons to look at this week so let's get to it! Spring Session Corn-M2 and Spring Session Bean-SR6 Released Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.2 Released Getting Started with Spring Cloud Gateway Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.1.RELEASE & 1.1.0.M2 Available Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.4.RELEASE & 2.2.0.M…

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