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 - April 28th, 2020

Engineering | April 29, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already April 28th, 2020. I can't even believe it. The time sure is flying, not just since the last time we spoke in this little blog of ours, but also since I first started writing these roundups the first week of January 2011. In four short months, it'll have been ten years since I officially joined the Spring team! Crazy. It's also the case that time has flown by since this #COVID19 crisis forced much of the world into lockdown. I am an eternal optimist, and I was wondering if this COVID19 crisis was going to have…

Spring Tips: The Wavefront Observability Platform

Engineering | April 29, 2020 | ...
speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we'll revisit two topics that we've addressed in two previous videos (distributed tracing and metrics collection) in terms of the superb Tanzu Wavefront observability platform. The first video of the two videos, as mentioned above, dating way back in early 2017, looked at distributed tracing with spring cloud sleuth and openzipkin. Spring Cloud Sleuth is an abstraction for capturing the flow of messages from one node to another. It's useful to help you see how messages move…

Spring Tips: Configuration

Engineering | April 23, 2020 | ...
speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring tips! in this installment, we're going to look at something that's rather foundational, and something that I wish I'd addressed earlier: configuration. And no, I don't mean functional configuration or java configuration or anything like that, I'm talking about the string values that inform how your code executes. the stuff that you put in application.properites. that configuration. All configuration in Spring emanates from the Spring Environment abstraction. The Environment is sort of like a dictionary…

This Week in Spring - April 21st, 2020

Engineering | April 21, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been another fun-filled week since we last spoke. I just finished presenting an online talk for the Norwegian jaavBin Java User Group association - that was a ton of fun! - and now I'm preparing tomorrow's "Spring Tips" installment. And, without further ado, let's get to it! Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.3.0.M4 Available Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.3.0.RC2 Available Spring Cloud App Broker 1.0.5 released Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M1 Released A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains…

Spring Tips: The GraalVM Native Image Builder Feature

Engineering | April 16, 2020 | ...
speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips. In this installment, we're going to look at the new support just released for building Spring Boot applications with GraalVM. We've looked at GraalVM and native images in another Spring Tips when we looked at Spring Fu. GraalVM is several things. It's a C1 replacement for a standard OpenJDK install. You can listen to this episode of my podcast, A Bootiful Podcast, with GraalVM contributor and Twitter engineer Chris Thalinger, for more details on this use of GraalVM. It lets you run regular Sring…

This Week in Spring - April 14th, 2020

Engineering | April 15, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a crazy week so let's delay not even one second longer! In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked with Microsoft’s Kushagra Thapar on Spring Data Cosmosdb Have you seen the new Spring Graal Native 0.6.0 support? In last week's Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Integration Kotlin DSL Want help on effectively pair programming remotely? Our experts are here to help This Month in RabbitMQ went out - don't miss these roundups! A nice post looking at when to Use Eirini, Quarks or KubeCF for Cloud Foundry and…

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