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: Cloud Native Java, Redux

Engineering | October 01, 2020 | ...
Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) for a guided tour of a ton of the features, patterns, and principles in Spring Cloud and Spring Boot that support you when building production-optimized, cloud native Java applications

This Week in Spring - September 29th, 2020

Engineering | September 29, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome week in Spring! Can you believe we're staring down October, 2020 already? I can't. Time sure flies.... or something. There's a lot to get to so let's get to it. Spring Cloud LoadBalancer replaces the Netflix Ribbon, provides a pluggable algorithm, reactive support, and extensible configuration. Interested in knowing about the 10 Itemprocessors that out of the box Spring Batch has? Watch the full session here Sentry CTO David Cramer on Automated Error Capture and Analysis Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3 Released Spring is a season of…

Sentry CTO David Cramer on Automated Error Capture and Analysis

Engineering | September 24, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks about the wide world of web development with CSS, Figma, AdobeXD and more, and then talks to Sentry CTO David Cramer (@zeeg) about easy error capture and analysis with Sentry and Spring. Want to see the worldwide flurry of activity as errors make their way to Sentry? Check this out

This Week in Spring - September 22, 2020

Engineering | September 22, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun-filled and fantastic installment of This Week in Spring where we review the week that was in the Java ecosystem. It's been quite a week indeed. SOoo many new releases and so many interesting things going on in the larger Spring, Java, Azure, and VMware ecosystems, that we don't have a moment to waste so: onward! A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work Ask the Java Architects Panel Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois Azure in the Enterprise: Azure Object Storage Service…

A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work

Engineering | September 17, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend and Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér (@jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, and reactive work over the decades, about the cooperation with the Spring team on the Reactive Streams, the Reactive Foundation, and more. Check out the upcoming Reactive Summit! Both Jonas and Josh will be speaking there :-)

This Week in Spring - September 15th, 2020

Engineering | September 16, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an absolutely nutty week! It's just Tuesday and I'm beat! Over the weekend I completely refactored the pipeline I used for my just-published book Reactive Spring (which, by the way, is now available on Leanpub and on Amazon as digital and paperback editions) and turned it into the turnkey Asciidoctor pipeline I'd always wanted but - since I was traveling 650,000 miles a year, speaking at hundreds of conferences or events yearly, writing a 450-page book, releasing weekly blogs, recording a weekly podcast…

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