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 - June 2, 2020

Engineering | June 03, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans. We've got a ton of stuff to cover this week so let's get to it. Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR6, Hoxton.SR5 and 2020.0.0-M2 (aka Ilford) are Available A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Malini Bhandaru on EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space Spring Security OAuth 2.5.0 Released Spring Fu 0.3.0 and beyond Spring Tools 4.6.2 released Spring Batch Integration What's new in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0 This Month in RabbitMQ A really nice thread about using Spring Boot, GraalVM native images, and Azure Functions Running Spring Boot GraalVM Native Images with Docker…

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! Getting Started With RSocket: Testing Spring Boot Responders In last week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast, I talk to JAXB contributor, COM4j, Jenkins and Launchable founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi Migrating to Spring Data JDBC 2.0 Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.5.1 Released What can Spring do? Find out An…

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…

VMware COO Sanjay Poonen

Engineering | May 14, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, VMware’s Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to VMware COO Sanjay Poonen (@spoonen) about app development, Tanzu, Cloud, Networking, and more.

This Week in Spring - May 12th, 2020

Engineering | May 12, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope you're all doing well, staying safe, taking socially distant walks every day to get some fresh air and exercise, and so on. I'm trying my best to stay sane. We just crossed into month three-under quarantine, having gone into quarantine on 11 March 2020. It's pretty crazy to think about how slowly and quickly time has flown. One of the things that makes me happy? Learning new things. This weekly roundup, This Week in Spring, has always been a lot of fun for me. It's become even more of a privilege in the age of…

Spring Tips: Season 7 Recap

Engineering | May 06, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to the recap installment for the seventh season of Spring Tips! I can't believe we're already on season seven! In October of 2020, it'll be 4 straight years of doing these videos. Hopefully, they're helping. Every season consists of 11 episodes and one recap blog post. Sometimes, I'll do an occasional extra episode or I'll do an episode during the interregnum between seasons as the situations sometimes demand. But, for now, I'm done for a little while - not as long as last time, for sure! But a little while. I need time to gather my resources, prepare new content…

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