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 - May 21, 2019

Engineering | May 21, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! It's been quite a crazy week! I was in Spring I/O last week in Barcelona, Spain and there was a deluge of interesting news to come out of the show! I loved the show - a sort of mini SpringOne - and am chomping at the bit to see what comes next. I'm now beginning a small tour starting in Zurich, Switzerland; then I'm off to the paradise-like Paris, France for the epic SpringOne Tour event there, then I'm off to Minsk, Belarus; then off to Barcelona, Spain for JBCN, and then - finally - home for the middle school graduation of my kid at the end of the month. So much exciting…

Spring Tips: Spring Batch and Apache Kafka

Engineering | May 15, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive)! In this installment we look at the just-landed community contribution in Spring Batch adding support for Apache Kafka. This new support offers some tantalizing opportunities to bridge batch and streaming workloads. Stage large writes to backend warehouses with Kafka and drain the stream with Spring Batch. Load large amounts of data from existing datastores and funnel it into stream processing pipelines. And the possibilities become even more interesting when you consider Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Stream,

This Week in Spring - May 14th, 2019

Engineering | May 14, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in beautiful Krakow for the epic Geecon show and then I'm off to spectacular Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O show. I hope to see you in both locations! It's sure to be fun. Next week it's going to be even more crazy! Next week I'm off to Zurich, Switzerland for a visit with some customers, and then it's off to Paris, France for the Spring One Tour event there, and then it's off to Minsk, Belarus, for the VOXXED Days Minsk show (my first time there! I'm so excited!), and then right after that, it's off to Barcelona…

A Bootiful Podcast: Kotlin team engineer Roman Elisarov

Engineering | May 09, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) sits down with Jetbrain's Roman Elizarov (@relizarov). Roman works on the Kotlin team and, among other things, focuses on asynchronous programming with things like coroutines. This interview was a very detailed dive into the opportunities for asynchronous programming for Spring developers using Kotlin, especially in light of the new coroutine support coming in Spring Framework 5.2.

Twitter: Roman Elizarov (@relizarov) A great blog by Sebastien Deleuze on our new support

This Week in Spring - May 7th, 2019

Engineering | May 07, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in beautiful Sao Paolo, Brazil for QCon Sao Paolo then it's off to Devoxx UK in London. As usual, lots of good stuff to get to so let's get to it.

This Week in Spring - April 30th, 2019

Engineering | April 30, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in colorful Chicago, Illinois, and magnificent Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so excited to be in both places. I'm in Chicago for the GOTO Chicago event, which is always fun, and I'm in Milwaukee for a meetup and, of course, to partake of local delicacies like Kopps, a Cousins sub, and a Spotted Cow beer. Life is great!

Did you see this epic image of the Chicago Lakeshore area I took the other day? Spring is truly in full swing! (I'll ignore the buckets of rain that have been dumped on Chicago and Milwaukee…

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