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 - August 4th, 2020

Engineering | August 05, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you all doing? Me? I'm doing swell! I was so happy to celebrate my tenth anniversary on the Spring team on the 2nd of August, 2020. It has been an amazing run so far and I am so excited about the continued adventure! A huge part of the reason I love this job is because of you, dear community. Thank you. You can learn more about the story so far in this blog. A Bootiful Podcast: Josh Lock on supply chain security, Docker trust, TUF, and more Confluent put on yet another great stream on Spring Boot and Apache Kafka I…

This Week in Spring - July 28th, 2020

Engineering | July 28, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring. I'm technically on vacation so I'll keep this pre-amble briefer than usual and get right into it. I am doing a two day long workshop for the YOW! conference on Cloud Native Java on 14 & 18 August. Register now!. A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Data lead Mark Paluch on all things reactive and data: R2DBC, transactions, etc. Announcing Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes Another great article on Inside Java - this one on the state of foreign memory support in Java. Bootiful Podcast: Tim Pepper, Kubernetes Release SIG…

This Week in Spring - July 21, 2020

Engineering | July 21, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? Good, I hope! I've just finished recording two epic episodes of a Bootiful Podcast that'll be streaming to ears near you in the not-too-distant future. I can not wait. I'm also super excited: tomorrow I'll be hosting the Reactive Spring and Spring Tips-themed edition of SpringOne Tour. Do not miss this! Also, the Spring team wants to hear from you! Please fill this survey out. We've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's begin. A Bootiful Podcast: Intuit's Katie Levy on Spring Boot, Kotlin…

This Week in Spring - July 14th, 2020

Engineering | July 14, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! How're things? Good? Good. I just finished (virtually) presenting for the always-lovely London Java Community this morning. We spoke about Kotlin and Spring and things. It was good. Thank you so much for having me LJC! I also kicked off the epic JetBrains Java Day Online event last Friday. That was a ton of fun! Thank you Jetbrains. I finally, finally, put some elbow grease into automating a listing of some my activity and so now whenever I publish a new Spring Tips video, a new A Bootiful Podcast podcast, or commit to a new public appearance, I'll have information here on my…

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! A Bootiful Podcast: An Exciting Week of Releases and Dr. Yordan Karadzhov A great screencast from Matt Raible: Angular Docker with a Big Hug from Spring Boot - YouTube A nice post on ZGC and using…

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