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

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.

This Week in Spring - July 6th, 2021

Engineering | July 06, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in July already! That blows my mind - we're closer to 2022 than 2020 at this point. I don't wanna jinx it, but this year seems markedly better than last year, and I hope it stays that way. Anyway, friends, let's get on with the roundup! A Bootiful Podcast: Benjamin Wilms, founder of the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot and Steadybit, a company to help you build more robust software BlockHound: how it works Getting Started with Apache Camel and Spring Boot GraalVM on Twitter Hello, Spring GraphQL Introducing Spring…

Use New Relic to effortlessly monitor applications and dependencies in Azure Spring Cloud

Engineering | July 01, 2021 | ...
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of New Relic One performance monitoring in Azure Spring Cloud. Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using tools that their developers are familiar with and have been using for years, and they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile applications which are…

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