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 7th, 2020

Engineering | April 07, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing all right, all things considered! I miss you all. OK, so, first things first: we're kicking off #TanzuTuesday today. Join us TODAY at 1pm PST/PDT and I'll introduce you to the wide world of Reactive Spring! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda - yes, that Joe Beda! Do not miss this! Spring Data for Apache Solr Discontinued Getting Started With RSocket: Spring Boot Channels Spring Boot 2.3.0.M4 available now Spring Security 5.3.1, 5.2.3,…

Spring Tips: The Spring Integration Kotlin DSL

Engineering | April 07, 2020 | ...
speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we're going to take a look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Integration. I've covered both Spring Integration and Kotlin in other videos before. I am pretty sure I've also used Spring Integration from within a Kotlin-based Spring application, but this is the first time I've been able to cover a Kotlin DSL specifically for Spring Integration. Spring Integration has been around for a long time - 13 years at least - and it serves a timeless use case: the integration of disparate systems and services. It's patterned after…

This Week in Spring - March 31st, 2020

Engineering | April 01, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-meaty installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we've got a ton of stuff to look at so I won't belabor it! Tomorrow, the 1st of April, marks the 6 year anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0 going GA! Happy birthday my old friend! Spring Data Neumann goes RC1 Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.6.RELEASE Available @DynamicPropertySource in Spring Framework 5.2.5 and Spring Boot 2.2.6 In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, and Reactor committer Sergei Egorov Spring Boot 2.2.6 available now…

Spring Tips: Manipulating the Platform with the Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Java Client Autoconfiguration

Engineering | April 01, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tip! In this installment, we look at something near and dear to my heart (and my @author tag!) - the Cloud Foundry Java client auto-configuration. What is Cloud Foundry? Cloud Foundry is an open-source PaaS. It has a lot of flexibility. I'm in love with it if I'm honest. It's simple. I love things like it that give me flexibility without requiring too many sacrifices at the altar of the YAML deity. It's an opinionated platform as a service. You give the platform an application, and it deploys them. You upload a spring boot app, and it…

Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Loadbalancer

Engineering | March 25, 2020 | ...
speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman) Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we're going to look at a new feature in Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Loadbalancer. Spring Cloud Loadbalancer is a generic abstraction that can do the work that we used to do with Netflix's Ribbon project. Spring Cloud still supports Netflix Ribbon, but Netflix Ribbons days are numbered, like so much else of the Netflix microservices stack, so we've provided an abstraction to support an alternative. The Service Registry For us to use the Spring Cloud Load Balancer, we need to have…

This Week in Spring - March 24th, 2020

Engineering | March 24, 2020 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's a beautiful Tuesday for any number of reasons. I presented in the DevDotNext digital edition show just a few hours ago - that was a lot of fun and I highly recommend you consider attending the next editions (online or - assuming we get past this pandemic - online). Today is also the 16th birthday of Spring Framework 1.0 - released this day in 2004! What a journey! And of course, the person who announced that that version, the amazing Thomas Risberg (@trisberg), is one of many people who were there then and are still…

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