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 - July 27th, 2021

Engineering | July 27, 2021 | ...
Aloha, Spring fans, from the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. How're you doing? We've got a ton of stuff to look at so let's get to it! In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to industry analyst, fascinating person, strategist, and storyteller Michael Coté I love this look at building a first application with RabbitMQ streams I loved this infographic by Dormain Drewitz on modernizing the mainframe Premiering Now: SpringOne Tour - July 2021: Do or Do Not, There is no try{} in Production Spring Boot 2.4.9 is now available Spring Boot 2.5.3 is now available Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1 is now…

Premiering Now: SpringOne Tour - July 2021: Do or Do Not, There is no try{} in Production

Engineering | July 23, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this July 2021 installment of SpringOne Tour, Josh Long, Cora Iberkleid, Angie Jones, Madhura Bhave, Bella Bai, Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Whitney Lee, and Nate Schutta look at the wide and wonderful world of testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. This event - a mini-conference if you will - is two hours and some change long and features dedicated segments from the industry's best, so grab a drink, a note pad, and let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - July 20th, 2021

Engineering | July 20, 2021 | ...
Aloha, my friends, from Hawai'i, where I'm currently on vacation! And, because I'm on vacation, I'll cut to the chase: there's a lot of great stuff to get to this week (surprise!) But first, a friendly turtle I met the other day: You're welcome. Now then, where were we? Oh right! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk about visualizing software architecture with the C4 model with architect Simon Brown. Don't miss this one! Spring Tips: Some cool features possible with Spring Integration 5.5 Have you checked out the speakers in this year's SpringOne, on September 1st to 2nd…

This Week in Spring - July 13th, 2021

Engineering | July 13, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm heads-down, hurriedly making final preparations for tomorrow's SpringOne Tour episode installment. This is going to be SO MUCH FUN. Do NOT miss this show tomorrow morning, 10AM California time. I'll be there, along with my friends Madhura Bhave, Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Bella Bai, Whitney Lee, Core Iberkleid, Nate Schutta, and special guest star Angie Jones. We look forward to seeing you there and we'll explore the wide and wonderful world of continuous delivery, testing and more together. JOOQ 3.15.0 Release is out, and includes support for R2DBC (and…

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Square

Engineering | July 07, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at how to build smarter HTTP clients for your Spring Boot microservices with Spring Cloud Square, Retrofit, and OKHTTP.

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