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 23rd, 2021

Engineering | February 24, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week's been exciting and only going to get more exciting as the days carry on. Tomorrow, the 24th of February, I'll be participating in a panel with Angie Jones, Daniel Bryant, Stefania Chaplin, and Jonathan Harris on how to debug and fix issues so that it doesn't block production. Tomorrow, I'll_also_ be streaming on Twitch.tv around noon PST. Join us! Alright, without any further ado, this week's roundup! Enjoy! Announcing Spring Cloud for Kubernetes As part of that release, I put together a Spring Tips video…

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Gateway (Redux)

Engineering | February 24, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, I revisit Spring Cloud Gateway. Here's what's inside: Intro 11:12​ Have your cake and Eat it too with an API Gateway Basics 00:11:37​ Get to Know Your New Gateway 00:21:18​ The Observable Gateway 00:22:39​ Meet The Supporting Characters 00:24:30​ Reactive Data For The Demo 00:28:10​ A Reactive WebSocket Endpoint 00:31:00​ Reactive HTTP Endpoint Behind the Source with Spring Cloud co-founder, lead, and Spring Cloud Gateway creator Spencer Gibb 00:33:00​ Spencer Gibb Service Discovery 37:59​ Introducing Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka 40:4…

This Week in Spring - February 16th, 2021

Engineering | February 16, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week is fixing to be a really fun one! I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG tonight. It's free, online, virtual, etc. Join us, won't you? I'll also be speaking at the legendary Devnexus event this week. Do not miss that. Or the show. It's free, being held virtually, online, and a ton of us from the Spring team will be there. We've got a lot of good stuff to get to this week so let's dive in! My buddy, the amazing and inestimable, Tanzu observability engineer Tommy Ludwig, and I wrote a little blog, Metrics and Tracing…

This Week in Spring - February 9th, 2020

Engineering | February 09, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm just about to give a 2h presentation for the OOP conference. It's live. It'll be fun. Join us? How've you been? You realize it's already the second week of February? Chinese New Year, a holiday celebrated by more than two billion people, begins on the 12th of February. So, seeing as how we won't get to talk again until after, let me wish everyone who celebrates: 新年快乐! A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka Alibaba's Jacky Chan has put together an awesome project that does client-side…

This Week in Spring - February 2nd, 2020

Engineering | February 03, 2021 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already square into the second month of 2021? We're 1/12th of the way through the year already! IT'S ALL GOING SO QUICK! So, I won't waste any further time, let's get to the roundup! This is a fantastic video by the legendary Brian Sam Boden on building a Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, with a React front end: Part 1 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware A Bootiful Podcast: Traceable's Pavol Loffay, creator of the Hypertrace Java agent GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java…

YMNNALFT: A lightweight SQL data mapper with the JdbcTemplate

Engineering | February 01, 2021 | ...
Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity. I think the first use I had for Spring, more than 15 years ago, was the JdbcTemplate, which eliminated the eye-watering and…

Get ahead

VMware offers training and certification to turbo-charge your progress.

Learn more

Get support

Tanzu Spring offers support and binaries for OpenJDK™, Spring, and Apache Tomcat® in one simple subscription.

Learn more

Upcoming events

Check out all the upcoming events in the Spring community.

View all