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 - March 3rd, 2020

Engineering | March 03, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I'm home, in San Francisco, California, in the US, where the fears around Coronavirus have heated up and made things problematic for those of us who travel. It looks like, at least for the immediate future, I'll be - basically - grounded. Stay safe out there, my friends.

The good news is that this will let me get to a ton more other things like the blogs, A Bootiful Podcast and Spring Tips and of course my Reactive Spring book. And of course, we've got a ton of things to get to today in today's installment of This Week in Spring, so…

Spring Tips: Apache RocketMQ

Engineering | February 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we're going to look at Alibaba's Apache RocketMQ. We've talked some about Alibaba in Spring Tips before. Check out the earlier Spring Tips installment in which we explore some of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Running Apache RocketMQ

In order to use Apache RocketMQ, you'll need to follow the steps in the RocketMQ quickstart. This Spring Tips installment introduces Apache RocketMQ, originally a technology developed and used internally at Alibaba and proven in the forge of 11/11, the famous Chinese sales holiday, sort of like "Cyber Monday," or "Black Friday," in the US. Sort of like that, but waaaaaay bigger. In 2019, Alibaba (alone, with no other e-commerce engines involved), made almost $40 billion USD in 2…

This Week in Spring - February 25th, 2020

Engineering | February 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! This week I am in delicious Philadelphia enjoying the amazing food (scrapple! TastyKakes!) and hanging out with amazing customers using VMWare and Spring to great effect. It's been a busy week since we last talked: I released a new Spring Tips installment, wrote a bunch of blogs, recorded a new podcast, and published a new podcast installment. We've got a lot to get to today so let's get to it!

A Bootiful Podcast: Building China-scale Infrastructure at Alibaba with Spring Cloud, Rsocket, and more

Engineering | February 21, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to friends - Mercy Ma (马昕曦), Andy Shi (施孜海), and Jim Fang (方剑) - from Alibaba. These engineers work on Spring Cloud Alibaba, some of the open source infrastructure coming out of Alibaba designed to support Spring applications running at Alibaba, and more.

Spring Tips: RSocket and Spring Security

Engineering | February 20, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this first installment of Spring Tips season 7, we look at how to lock down RSocket services with Spring Security.

By Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at using Spring Security and RSocket together. RSocket is a payload and platform agonostic wire protocol developed by engineers at Netflix and Facebook that supports the Reactive Streams concepts on the wire. The protocol is a stateful-connection centric protocol: a requester node connects and stays connected to another responder node. Once connected, either side can transmit information…

This Week in Spring - February 18th, 2020

Engineering | February 18, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to sunny Atlanta, Georgia, for the epic Devnexus show there. If you're there, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'm also busy recording new episodes of a Bootiful Podcast and new Spring Tips videos videos. We have some amazing guests on the show coming up and we have some really fascinating topics to introduce in our Spring Tips videos, too!

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2020

Engineering | February 12, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends?

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

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