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 - September 15th, 2015 - SpringOne2GX 2015 edition!

Engineering | September 16, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we're in beautiful Washington DC for the amazing SpringOne2GX 2015!

It's been an amazing event packed with amazing, pivotal moments that saw more than a thousand attendees - including engineers from some of the largest websites in the world - Rakuten, Alibaba, and Netflix, among others - join us here in Washington DC to learn and love what Pivotal is doing with and around Spring.

Here are some of my favorite moments:

get cloud native

  • this year saw Pivotal take cloud-native further and faster than anyone and SpringOne2GX has been a huge celebration of this drive: GET CLOUD NATIVE.

This Week in Spring - September 8, 2015

Engineering | September 08, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I left Tokyo, Japan, and have been in Shanghai, China, speaking to a few large-scale startups - including Ele.me, the largest food delivery service and application in a very crowded Chinese market with more than 2 million orders every day - about building cloud-native applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry! Tomorrow, it's off to Oslo, Norway, for the amazing JavaZone conference. I love this conference and have, in the last two years, been unable to attend because it was concurrent with SpringOne2GX…

This Week in Spring - September 1, 2015

Engineering | September 01, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! The Spring team is hard at work on all the latest and greatest ahead of the SpringOne2GX event in Washington DC! Time is really flying! I can't beleive what we're staring down September already! This week I'm in Tokyo, Japan, participating in the Spring User Group's huge Spring in Summer event where I gave a keynote and two talks, on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. The one day event attracted some of the company's largest websites and was a lot of fun!

Anyway, without further ado, let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - August 25th, 2015

Engineering | August 25, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the lovely QCon Rio conference, and then I'm off to Tokyo, Japan for a Spring in Summer conference for local Spring users!

The team is abuzz with excitement leading up to this year's SpringOne2GX 2016, the biggest and best SpringOne2GX, ever! This year, you're going to see us do WAY more with WAY less and get it to production, to boot! This is exciting for everyone of us and it will be for audience members, as well!

This Week in Spring - August 18, 2015

Engineering | August 19, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'm back in São Paulo, Brazil, to visit customers, then it's off to Rio for QCon Rio! If you're in either city, message me on Twitter and let's grab a coffee!

  • Today, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz stepped down [and welcomed Pivotal Labs founder Rob Mee as the new CEO. There's a post by Paul and by Rob. Thank you, Paul, and welcome Rob!
  • the amazing Scott Frederick just announced the general availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0! - check this out!
  • Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3M4, with fixes and improvements aplenty!
  • Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced a CRAZY packed new Spring Integration 4.2 release including, but not limited to, support for security Context Propagation, STOMP client channel adapters, metrics, new Spring Framework 4.2 event channel adapters, a process barrier component, last modified file list filters, codec, JMS shared subscriptions, (S)FTP improvements, SOAP Action Propagation,

This Week in Spring - August 11, 2015

Engineering | August 12, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - August 4th, 2015

Engineering | August 04, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi!

We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty!

This Week in Spring - July 28, 2015

Engineering | July 29, 2015 | ...

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

This Week in Spring - July 14th 2015

Engineering | July 14, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This week in I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China and Shenzhen, China, talking to some of the world's largest websites (of the same scale of Netflix!) about their use of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. (More on that later!)

Anyway, without further ado..

  • Paul Chapman put together a nice walkthrough Spring Cloud today. Way to go Paul!
  • Andy Wilkinson just announced the Spring IO Platform BOM 1.1.3 has been released
  • Spring Boot 1.3M2 - along with new support for JOOQ, /flyway and /liquibase Actuator endpoints, ANSI colored banner.txt, and Apache Artemis integration (among many other things) is now available! Check it out.
  • If you missed Spring rockstar and Spring Boot ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and maintaing Spring Boot applications (why would you miss it??), then check it out
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This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2015

Engineering | July 07, 2015 | ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'll be in Shanghai, China, talking to some customers (say hi on Twitter!) and then it's off to Shenzhen, China, where I'll be giving a keynote at the ArchSummit conference.

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