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: Project Riff and Spring Cloud Function

Engineering | May 16, 2018 | ...
speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at Spring Cloud Function (which lets you write serverless functions that run on your favorite function-as-a-service provider) and Project Riff, the new open-source function-as-a-service platform from Pivotal.

This Week in Spring - May 15th, 2018

Engineering | May 15, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just returned from a month of travel on Saturday, and on Sunday I was off to Denver, CO, for the epic SpringOne Tour Denver show. Now, I'm off to begin a 10 day tour of Kyiv, Ukraine (JEEConf); Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Barcelona, Spain (Spring I/O). I hope to see you around! (@starbuxman) We've got a ton of good stuff to look at today so let's get to it! Check out this Micrometer extravaganza webinar from Micrometer lead Jon Schneider I love this new guide on building Spring Boot…

This Week in Spring - May 8th, 2018

Engineering | May 08, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Manchester, UK, for an appearance at the Manchester JUG and then it's off to London, UK, for some customer visits and the epic Devoxx UK event. This time next week I'll be in Denver, USA, for the SpringOne Tour event. If you're in any of these places, as usual, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman) Missed an installment of This Week in Spring? Well, have no fear there's now a monthly aggregation of the weekly aggregation! Here's the April edition Dormain Drewitz swoops in for the kill with…

This Week in Spring - May 1st, 2018

Engineering | May 01, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the last week I went from Germany (for JAXON) to Linz, Austria (for DevOne) and Vienna, Austria (for a meetup) and now I'm in Melbourne, Australia (after a 10 hour stopover in Bangkok, Thailand), for the VOXXED Melbourne event. As usual, if you're around I'd love to hear from you! Without further ado, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Pivotal just turned 5! Happy birthday to us! Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley RC1. The new release is packed with all sorts of new…

Spring Tips: Spring Statemachine

Engineering | April 25, 2018 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine.

This Week in Spring - April 24th, 2018

Engineering | April 24, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another incredible installment of all that's fit to tweet, blog, record and print about Spring! It's been an insane week! Since our last installment I was in Paris, FR, for the epic Devoxx FR conference where I spoke at a meetup hosted by ZenikaIT, gave a workshop on Reactive Cloud Native Java and co-presented a talk on Reactive Spring with the one-and-only Juergen Hoeller. I jumped off stage and ran to the airport to board a flight leaving 150 minutes later headed back to the US! Now, you may have heard that Pivotal, the company that leads and/or at least…

Spring Tips: Redis

Engineering | April 18, 2018 | ...
speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the many facets of Redis, the distributed data structure server. Spring supports Redis through the Spring Cache abstraction, Spring Session, the Spring message-listener container abstraction, and through the Spring Data Redis module.

This Week in Spring - April 17th, 2018

Engineering | April 17, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France and I'll be in Mainz, Germany, next week for JAX and Linz, Austria for the DevOne event. If you're in any of these places then don't hesitate to reach out! We've got so much to cover so let's get to it! Spring Cloud Task and Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RC1 Artem Bilan looks at what's new in the Spring Cloud GCP 1.0.0.M3 release. Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced Spring Tool Suite 3.9.4 Spring Boot lead Phil Webb is cooking up a…

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