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

Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less!

Engineering | August 31, 2022 | ...

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices. As we operate Azure Spring Apps, we continue to build efficiencies and economies of scale. We are passing those efficiencies to you.

Many customers have asked us to lower the size of the base unit to make it easier to get started and accommodate smaller projects.

Announcing Price and Base Unit Reduction

Effective September 1st, we are reducing the base unit of Azure Spring Apps Standard and Enterprise to 6 vCPUs and 12 GB of Memory. And reducing the overage prices for vCPU and Memory.

New Monthly…

Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers

Engineering | August 30, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from our friend Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft

As a company, we are committed to making Java developers as efficient and productive as possible. This commitment means empowering you to use any tool, framework, and application server on any operating system. Wherever you are with Java, Microsoft supports your workload with an abundance of choices and with a wide range of developer tools and services.

Code, Deploy, and Scale Java Your Way

Today, more and more Java developers are looking at how they can bring their existing Java…

This Week in Spring - August 30th, 2022

Engineering | August 30, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? How're you doin' this fine tuesday morning? I'm doing well, of course, because this week VMware's tentpole show - VMware Explore - is happening not even a mile from my home, here in San Francisco! And this is just the first one - there'll be another show, my favorite show, in December: SpringOne 2022! I sure hope you've registered and that we'll see you there!

Indeed, I've got a lunch to get to, so let's get this this week's wrapup done a little more quickly: without further ado....

This Week in Spring - August 23rd, 2022

Engineering | August 23, 2022 | ...

This Week in Spring - August 16th, 2022

Engineering | August 16, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonder-filled installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a week! Sometimes I can scarcely believe it myself. And can you believe it's August 16th already?? My daughter's starting school this week! We're in the northern hemisphere, and Summer break is already over and done with for her. There's still another month and some change of summer, officially, though. So, I hope you all are doing whatever you can to maximize your enjoyment of it before the darker and colder months arrive.

Twitter helps me pass the time. I've been working on some code and wanted to use Twitter's OAuth 2 and PKCE support in the application but couldn't quite make it work. So I pinged my pal (everybody's pal, really!) and Spring Security lead Rob Winch (@rob_winch) for some clues, and he did me one better: he put together a sample that demonstrates it all in action

This Week in Spring - August 9th, 2022

Engineering | August 09, 2022 | ...

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