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

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.

This Week in Spring - June 9th , 2020

Engineering | June 09, 2020 | ...

This Week in Spring - June 2, 2020

Engineering | June 03, 2020 | ...

This Week in Spring - May 26th, 2020

Engineering | May 27, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? My family and I spent the Memorial Day holiday weekend mostly playing video games and trying random new restaurants for delivery. Now, it's back to the grind and there are a ton of things to look at so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - May 19th, 2020

Engineering | May 19, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a wonderful, bootiful week it's been! This last week saw the long-awaited release of Spring Boot 2.3.0!

There are a lot of wonderful features in this release including, but not limited to, Java 14 support, Docker image generation, graceful shutdown, liveliness probes, upgrades to Spring Data Neumann, and so much more. Here are some resources on some of those features. And, also, check out the blog.

  • R2DBC support (see this Spring Tips installment on using R2DBC
  • Docker container image support. See this blog on Docker image generation
  • Java 14 support. See this Spring Tips installment on Java 14
  • This is also the version to use if you want to consume the Graal Native Image builder feature. Here's a Spring Tips video on that, too.

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