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

Spring Tips: Reactive Web Views

Engineering | May 08, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to create dynamic views using Spring Webflux, server-sent events, websockets and Thymeleaf's reactive model attributes. speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

This Week in Spring - May 7th, 2019

Engineering | May 07, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in beautiful Sao Paolo, Brazil for QCon Sao Paolo then it's off to Devoxx UK in London. As usual, lots of good stuff to get to so let's get to it. Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RELEASE Available! A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Engineer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RC2 Released! Interesting thread on Reddit.com: Docker and Spring Boot done properly? Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface Microservices with Spring…

This Week in Spring - April 30th, 2019

Engineering | April 30, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in colorful Chicago, Illinois, and magnificent Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so excited to be in both places. I'm in Chicago for the GOTO Chicago event, which is always fun, and I'm in Milwaukee for a meetup and, of course, to partake of local delicacies like Kopps, a Cousins sub, and a Spotted Cow beer. Life is great! Did you see this epic image of the Chicago Lakeshore area I took the other day? Spring is truly in full swing! (I'll ignore the buckets of rain that have been dumped on Chicago and Milwaukee…

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker

Engineering | April 24, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the just-announced Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker project, which provides an abstraction atop Netflix' Hystrix, Resilience4J, Alibaba's Sentinel and Spring Retry and supports reactive and non-reactive circuits. speaker: Josh Long twitter: @starbuxman

This Week in Spring - April 23, 2019

Engineering | April 23, 2019 | ...
HI Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny California, then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for the epic SpringOne Tour event, and then it's off to Chicago, Illinois for the better-and-better GOTO Chicago show. I hope to see you there! We've got a busy week in Spring so without further ado let's get to it! Preview releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are available: 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 A Bootiful Podcast: Pivotal Field CTO and OG Cloud Native Matt Stine on Architecture Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.1.0.M1 released Spring Tools 4.2.1 released CVE…

This Week in Spring - April 16th, 2019

Engineering | April 16, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! What a week it's been! When we last spoke I was in Capetown, South Africa or Johannesburg, South Africa. I've since been to Mauritius, back to Capetown, Serbia (for the amazing ITKonekt conference) and I'm now staring at the beautiful Bund river in beautiful Shanghai, China as I write this. We've got a ton to get to this week, as usual, so let's get to it. Hi Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of Spring Tips, this one on the just-released-in-master support for RSocket Messaging in Spring Boot 2.2. It's here! It's finally here! I was so excited to see this land and…

Spring Tips: RSocket Messaging in Spring Boot 2.2

Engineering | April 15, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips Josh revisits RSocket, the reactive application protocol from, among others, Facebook, this time looking at the brand new Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2 integration. speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Here's the first Spring Tips installment introducing the "raw" RSocket protocol and Java client library

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