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 - August 6, 2019

Engineering | August 06, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another amazing week in Spring! I just published This Month in Spring yesterday, if you want a larger roundup of everything from June to about yesterday. Spring Boot 2.2.0 M5 available now Spring Boot 2.1.7 available now It is time - Goodbye Spring Boot 1.x! Spring Security 5.1.6 and 5.0.13 Released Spring Security 5.2.0.M4 Released Spring Data Moore RC2, Lovelace SR10, and Ingalls SR23 released Spring Framework 5.2 goes RC1 Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RC1 Released! Spring Framework 5.1.9, 5.0.15 and 4.3.25 available now spring-data-dev-tools…

This Week in Spring - July 30, 2019

Engineering | July 30, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I'm in sweet San Francisco, soaking up the sun and enjoying the fun of summer. Sure, I've got a few meetings, and appearances, etc., but it is very nice to be home. By the by, I'll be speaking at the upcoming San Francisco Java User Group - come hang out and say hi! Anyway, lots of good stuff (as usual), so let's get to it. Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0 Released Do not miss this extra special episode of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring team legend Oliver Drotbohm Simplifying the Spring Cloud Release Train Check out…

This Week in Spring - July 23, 2019

Engineering | July 23, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I concluded my time in Portland, OR, for OSCON on Sunday, went to Chicago for the epic Chicago, IL Cloud Conf yesterday; today I am in Denver, CO, for meetings; and then Wednesday I am off to Burlington, MA for the SpringOne Tour 2019 event. We've got some good stuff this week so let's get to it! Hi Spring fans! In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Azul CTO Gil Tene on Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more There's an interesting new feature on master for Spring Cloud Gateway giving improved…

This Week in Spring - July 16, 2019

Engineering | July 16, 2019 | ...
HI Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Lima, Peru, for JConf Peru, and then today finished speaking at the SpringOne Tour Philadelphia event. Now, I'm off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON show. As usual, we've got tons to cover so let's get to it! Spring Tools 4.3.1 released In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Mr. REST / HATEOAS, Mike Amundsen, on APIs, HTTP, REST and more This is an interesting post on how Orange makes use of Cloud Foundry Check out this resolution for those using Spring Cloud Gateway and…

This Week in Spring - July 9th, 2019

Engineering | July 09, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Medellín, Columbia, yesterday, and am now in sunny Chicago for the epic SpringOne Tour Chicago event. And tomorrow, it's off to Lima, Peru. It's figuring to be quite a week! As usual, we've got a lot to get to so let's do! Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0.M1 Released Hi Spring fans! In last week's extra special A Bootiful Podcast, I interview friend and teacher-extraordinairre, the one, the only, the inimitable, the amazing Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being…

A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more.

Engineering | July 05, 2019 | ...
Hi, Spring fans! Happy 4th to those of you who celebrate. In today's episode, I talk to the man, the myth, the legend, the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin, the future of Java, Spring, open-source, being productive and awesome, and so much more. Dr. Subramaniam on Twitter (@venkat_s) a tweet asking that whatever recording I do with Dr. Subramaniam for the Bootiful Podcast be longer than an hour (wish granted!) The image from today's episode comes from a joint-talk that the good Dr. Subramaniam and I did in Atlanta, GA for the epic Devnexus conference. I am using the photo from Matt Raible…

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