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 7th, 2020

Engineering | July 07, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! What a crazy week it's been! How are you? I hope you're safe, healthy, happy.

I'll be speaking later today (Tuesday) at the Accento Digital conference and at the Jetbrains Java Day online event on the 10th (Friday). Both of these should be accessible from EMEA and APJ timezones. I look forward to seeing you there!

We've got a ton of good stuff to get to this week so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - June 30th, 2020

Engineering | July 01, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a wonderful week it's been and it's only Tuesday! I spoke to folks in Switzerland on Monday, had a few awesome meetings with folks later, then today spoke to folks in Germany in the morning and then folks in APJ (Singapore, mostly) in the evening. And tomorrow, I'm speaking at the JPoint virtual conference about Bootiful Kotlin. I'd love to see you there!

Now then, we've got a ton of things to look at this roundup so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - June 23, 2020

Engineering | June 23, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! What a week it's been! Tomorrow I'll be presenting a webinar on the easy integration between Spring Boot and Tanzu Wavefront. Wavefront is an all-in-one, integrated distributed tracing metrics analytics observability platform. Join us tomorrow to learn about observability, about Wavefront, and their integration in the Spring ecosystem with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Micrometer, among other things.

We've so many great things to look at this week so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - June 16th, 2020

Engineering | June 16, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed weekly roundup of This Week in Spring.

I've got a few upcoming speaking engagements you might be interested in. I'll be speaking (virtually) at the San Francisco JUG on June 24th at 6:30 PM. Join me!

Can't make it to the (virtual) SF JUG appearance? On June 30th, VMware Tanzu (where the Spring team lives) will be hosting one of my workshops, also on Reactive Spring. I'm going to cover tons of stuff: R2DBC, Reactor, Spring WebFlux, Spring WebFn, reactive Spring Data for SQL and NoSQL, RSocket, reactive security, reactive service orchestration, and composition patterns, and more. This is going to be at an ideal time for EU timezones, so please register now

Spring Tips: Spring and GraalVM (pt. 2)

Engineering | June 16, 2020 | ...

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to a very special, interregnum episode of Spring Tips where we revisit Spring and GraalVM native images. I wanted to get this video out in light of the recent Spring Graal 0.7.1 release which drastically simplifies things even compared to the last time we looked at Spring and Graal waaay back in April 2020.

TL;DR: GraalVm is a JIT replacement that you can use with a stock-standard JVM, and that's worth looking into in its own right. GraalVM also offers a separate feature supporting native image compilation. This native-image builder takes bytecode and turns it into an architecture-specific binary that sheds the JVM and embeds something called SubstrateVM. Native images are fast to startup and they take way

Upcoming Webinar: Bootiful Observability with Tanzu Wavefront by Josh Long and Sushant Dewan

News | June 12, 2020 | ...

Need better insight into your Spring Boot Applications? Join Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long and Sushant Dewan in a live webinar conversation on June 24th at 10:00 AM PST.

Get Tanzu Observability tips on how to understand the impact of your code on your application with application maps, metrics, distributed traces, histograms, and span logs analytics!

Register now for this free, virtual event you won't want to miss.

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