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 - August 24th, 2021

Engineering | August 24, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another riveting roundup of all the news that's fit to reprint in the Java and Spring ecosystems, with apologies, as always, to The Times. We're a week away from SpringOne 2021, our annual, free, and utterly online tentpole conference featuring hundreds of hours of amazing technical content from speakers all around the world and tens of thousands of attendees with whom to partake in the festivities. Do not miss this! I'll be there! I get so excited in the leadup to SpringOne each year, and this year doubly so! First, there's the usual monumental scope of the…

Structuring Your Code for Spring Framework and Spring Boot

Engineering | August 23, 2021 | ...
or: How To Build a Mental Framework for Spring Framework EDIT: There's a great comment below that mentions that the original title, Structuring Spring Boot Applications, is a bit misleading, in that the blog doesn't intend to talk about how to organize types and packages, and instead thinks about how Spring interacts with the objects in your code. The next paragraph sought to clarify that point but apparently fell short. Anyway, I've changed it, which unfortunately will break earlier links to it. I'm sorry for both the poor title and the now two days of broken links. I hope it's useful for…

This Week in Spring - August 17th, 2021

Engineering | August 17, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm alright. I've been recuperating from a COVID-19 infection. Today was the first day in a while that I woke up and wasn't short of breath. Most days, I've woken up, hacked a few wads of phlegm into the toilet, and then my breathing was fine. But today I woke up and wasn't short of breath in the first place. (I still hacked a few wads of phlegm). Thank goodness for vaccines, or I expect my experience of this virus would've been much worse as a lifelong asthmatic. Things are looking up! And then, as if my fortunes couldn't get any better, I got to compiling…

This Week in Spring - August 10th, 2021

Engineering | August 10, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I hope you're doing well. You know, I've been thinking a lot about how to retain that zen-like peace that comes with a vacation spent on the beach. I got back from Hawaii eight days ago and I found it to be so very beautiful. Nature really sold it for me; the fresh air is everything. If you don't have ready access to nature - if you, like me, are in a giant city with the ongoing sound of car horns ("klaxons"), fire engines, traffic, and everything else that accompanies any big city - then may I invite you to breathe with me? Just sit still for 30 seconds…

This Week in Spring - August 3rd, 2021

Engineering | August 03, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August, 2021! We're nearly to 2022! And I am, for better or for worse, back from vacation! I am so happy to be back, but I do miss the sunkissed beaches of Hawai'i. Sigh. Anyway, let's get into it! We've got a ton of things to get into, so without further ado... A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Spring Cloud Blog: Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview Join Pure Storage at VMworld 202…

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