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 - Sept 17, 2019

Engineering | September 17, 2019 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - and what a week it is! I'm at the epic annual eventapalooza that is Oracle CodeOne (formerly JavaOne). I just finished a talk today on reactive programming and I'll have another talk on Kotlin on Wednesday. Don't miss it!

Meanwhile, we've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's get to it!

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Framework co-founder and lead Juergen Hoeller on Spring Framework 5.2 and more

Engineering | September 12, 2019 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-special, extra-long installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this episode, I talk to Spring Framework lead and #2 co-founder of Spring itself, the one, the only, the amazing Juergen Hoeller. We talk about his tenure as the longest and most prolific contributor to Spring; designing clean code; the early days of Spring the project; new features in Spring Framework 5.2; the role of Kotlin, Project Loom, Graal in the Spring ecosystem; Spring's role in the ecosystem; Java's place and possibilities; and so much more.

This Week in Spring - September 10, 2019

Engineering | September 10, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another sunny installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're now staring down Q4 2019? How time flies!

As i write this I'm sat in a Radisson Blu hotel in Oslo, Norway, for the epic JavaZone show. I've got tons of wonderful memories at this hotel, often enjoyed with my friends on the Spring team, over many, many years. I love this show and am so glad to be back for the first time since 2015!

I landed today, recorded a few episodes of Spring Tips (new season starting soon!), took an ill-timed nap, and now here we are! We've got a ton to cover so let's get to…

This Week in Spring: September 3, 2019

Engineering | September 03, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've just finished celebrating Labor Day here in the Long home, in San Francisco, in the US. It was a fun day spent with family and friends, and I wasn't sure if I could have any more fun but it's Tuesday, and you know what that means: another epic installment of This Week in Spring. I can't believe we're already in September, staring down the last few months of the year already! As usual, one of my favorite parts of the journey to the next year is the arrival of the epic SpringOne Platform show. This year is no different…

This Week in Spring - August 27, 2019

Engineering | August 27, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, stuck in a monster of a traffic jam trying to make it to another meeting. I'm so elated to be here to connect with amazing people and organizations. I'm also excited that, this week, I'll be speaking at the Bangalore Java User Group. Please, come out and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cove so let's get to it!

A Bootiful Podcast: Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on the Simplicity Continuum

Engineering | August 23, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week I had the pleasure of talking with Ryan Knight and with the two people with whom I am copresenting at SpringOne Platform 2019, James Ward and Matt Raible.

This Week in Spring - August 20th, 2019

Engineering | August 20, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! I'm in delightful Denver and Boulder, Colorado, talking to customers and working with my buddies Matt Raible and James Ward on our Spring One Platform 2019 talk. It's going to be amazing!

I'm oh-so-excited to be working on today's roundup, as usual, because there's a ton of good stuff to cover, so let's get to it!

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