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 - February 14th, 2024

Engineering | February 13, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it!

Spring Tips: Spring Boot Testjars

Engineering | February 08, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the brand new Spring Boot Testjars project, which greatly simplifies standing up and reusing satellite Java-based services like other Spring Boot-based microservices or infrastructure like the Spring Authorization Server.

#springboot #java #java21 #testjars #oauth #docker #architecture #softwaretesting #microservices

Spring Tips: Spring AI

Engineering | February 08, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs (like the one behind ChatGPT) and tools to support the RAG (retrieval augmented generation) pipeline.

#ai #springboot #artificialintelligence #java #graalvm #cloud #java21 #postgresql

This Week in Spring - February 6th

Engineering | February 07, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it!

  • in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge) that asks people to - using nothing but barebones JDK Java types - load one billion rows of weather station telemetry data. This was a race to the bottom as hundreds of entries flooded in and we eventually got implementations that loaded and analyzed and processed thirteen gigabytes of data in less than 1.5 seconds. It's a very cool effort and Gunnar was kind enough to share some of the learnings we can take from the results
  • In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at the fantastic new Spring AI

This Week in Spring - January 30th, 2024

Engineering | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's January 30th, and it's a very special week for me as, tomorrow, I celebrate my birthday and the birthday of my biological father with whom I share the same birthday! Happy birthday, dad! (Sadly, he passed in 2019). I'm pretty excited! I'm turning 40. Feels good. Almost as good as all the cool stuff we've got in this week's roundup! Let's dive right into it.

Spring Tips: easy CQRS with Axon Framework

Engineering | January 30, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Axon Framework founder Allard Buijze and we look at the new integrations for Spring Boot developers in Axon Framework and AxonIQ Server.

Special thanks to AxonIQ for the keynote video replay. Check out https://www.axoniq.io/ for more great stuff!

#java #java21 #axon #springboot #architecture #cqrs

This Week in Spring - January 23rd, 2024

Engineering | January 22, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from CERN, home of the famous Large Hadron Collider, where I'm speaking again at the VOXXED Days CERN 2017 event. It's been an amazing almost week here in lovely Switzerland, first in Lugano (for VOXXED Days Ticino), and now in Geneva.

I'm super excited to be here, but all this wonderful scenery has only made it more difficult to keep up with what has been a very exciting week indeed in the community. Let's dive right into it, we have a ridiculous amount of stuff to look into!

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