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 - September 8th, 2020

Engineering | September 09, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans!

Last week was SpringOne. It was absolutely bonkers. The videos are coming sooner rather than later. In the meantime, some of them are already up on the Spring YouTube channel.

Also, I announced that my new book Reactive Spring is now available for sale! I'm proofing the printed version as we speak :-) Meanwhile, you can pre-order the Kindle version or - preferably! - get the digital version over on Leanpub.

Did I mention that last week was SpringOne? Seriously. There's no way I can hope to cover all that happened. But I do hope you'll listen to the latest installment of my…

This Week in Spring (SpringOne 2020 Edition) - September 1st, 2020

Engineering | September 02, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another action-packed installment of This Week in Spring. Normally, I spend my time in these blogs looking at the week that was but I confess, as much as I love all the interesting stuff that's come out in the last week, my heart's just not in it! My mind instead is SpringOne 2020, which starts Wednesday, tomorrow, at 6 AM PST. There's going to be so much good stuff, my friends. Obviously, there's no better place to tackle the goings-on of the Spring community. But this show doesn't stop there! There's also going to be content around diversity and social justice…

Hello, Azure Spring Cloud

Engineering | September 02, 2020 | ...

NOTE: This blog was drafted in cooperation with members of the Spring team and Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team, including Josh Long, Julien Dubois, Sean Li, Kylie Liang, Jonathan Giles, Asir Selvasingh, and the rest of the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud and VMware Spring teams.

Hi, Spring fans! It is with extreme delight that today we announce the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud. Azure Spring Cloud is a platform for deploying and managing Spring Boot and Spring Cloud-powered services and software built on Microsoft Azure. It is jointly built, operated, and supported by Microsoft…

A Bootiful Podcast: Soby Chacko and Dave Turanski on Messaging in Spring, Spring Cloud Stream App Starters and More

Engineering | August 27, 2020 | ...

Hi Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the week that was and then talks to Spring team members Soby Chacko (@sobychacko) and Dave Turanski (@dturanski) about messaging in Spring, Spring Cloud, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Stream App Starters.

This Week in Spring - August 25th, 2020

Engineering | August 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an insane week since we last spoke and things are only going to get nuttier between now and then! I've been heads down in my preparations for my SpringOne talks - one on Azure with Julien Dubois (@JulienDubois) and another on incorporating asynchronicity with Mario Gray (@MarioGray). I've been heads down working on my book Reactive Spring.

A few upcoming events worth noting:

  • I'll be streaming on Twitch tomorrow (Wednesday), noon, PST. Follow me on Twitter @starbuxman for the link.
  • I'll be presenting at the September edition of the Denver JUG to introduce RSocket. RSVP.

This Week in Spring - August 18th, 2020

Engineering | August 19, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Well, here we are! Nearing the end of August 2020! I can't believe it! September follows August (last I checked) and with September comes SpringOne 2020! I am so excited about this mega (and virtual) event and I hope you'll consider joining us there!

On a personal note, today's moving day for my family and me, so I have to get back to that. But we do have a ton to get to so let's dive into it.

A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket everywhere and Maciej Walkowiak on Spring Cloud AWS

Engineering | August 14, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) has RSocket on the brain with his latest talk, RSocket Revolution, the new RSocket chapter in his book Reactive Spring, and the work he's doing on Spring Retrosocket, a declarative Feign-like RSocket client. Then, Josh talks to Spring ecosystem luminary Maciej Walkowiak (@maciejwalkowiak) about what he's doing at the helm of Spring Cloud AWS.

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