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 - November 15th, 2016

Engineering | November 15, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Time sure is flying! We've got so much to get into this week. Can you believe we're staring down 2017? We've got so much to cover so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - November 8, 2016

Engineering | November 08, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, England for µCon, Antwerp, Belgium for Devoxx, and Malmö, Sweden for Oredev. If you're around, ping me and say hi.

This Week in Spring - November 1, 2016

Engineering | November 01, 2016 | ...

Hello and welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're now two weeks until 2017 - time sure is flying! This week I'm in Los Angeles, California, USA, and then it's off to London for µCon 2016, Devoxx Belgium and Oredev. If you're at any of these events be sure to say hi! Now, without further ado let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - October 25, 2016

Engineering | October 25, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'll be in Des Moines, Iowa for the Prairie.Code conference. If you're nearby, stop by and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

  • Spring Cloud ninja Marcin Grzejszczak just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR1. The Spring Cloud release train is such a thing of beauty - just seeing it makes me want to build something cool! It includes Spring Cloud AWS, Bus, Commons, Contract, Config, Netflix, Security, Sleuth, Stream, Task, and Zookeeper.
  • Spring Cloud Data Flow co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2.
  • Want help automating the pipeline that sees your application move from a git push to a successfully deployed application in production? Check out the new project, Spring Cloud Pipelines, which is a set of shell scripts that can be plugged in portably across Pivotal Concourse or Jenkins…

This Week in Spring - October 18, 2016

Engineering | October 18, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been another crazy wonderful week. This week I'm in London and Cambridge, UK visiting with customers and speaking (in particular, at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference) If you're about be sure to say hi! Now then, let's get to it!

  • The Spring Cloud Services Team, led by Chris Sterling has just finished making Eureka Service Discovery work even better on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The new 1.2 release allows peer replication across installations and organizations, enabling multi-site replication.
  • Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1.M2 just released today, picking up Boot 1.4.1 and Spring Cloud Camden releases. Check out all the extra goodies in Mark Pollack's blog post.
  • Learn how to build data-centric microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow with this incredible webinar
  • Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan has just

This Week in Spring - October 11, 2016

Engineering | October 11, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already almost mid October and I can't believe we're almost in 2017! Time is sure flying quickly!

This Week in Spring - October 4th, 2016

Engineering | October 05, 2016 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

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