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 - January 15th, 2019

Engineering | January 15, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I've just returned from Montreal, Canada and tomorrow I'm off to Dallas, Texas for customer visits. This time of year is marked by pronounced climate changes and the optimism for a new year ahead. I love it. That optimism is certainly visible in today's roundup. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! You know, I never know what people will find interesting in our wonderful community! It's for this reason that I try to cover as many topics as possible in the Spring Tips series. The latest installment has proven to be…

Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus (4/6)

Engineering | January 14, 2019 | ...
This is part 4 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB (3/6)

Engineering | January 10, 2019 | ...
This is part 3 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

This Week in Spring - January 8th, 2019

Engineering | January 08, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've just concluded the second of my two online trainings, one on Monday on Reactive Spring, and another today on using Spring Boot in Kotlin. This week I'll be in Montreal, Canada for an appearance at the Montreal JUG and at Dawscon. I'd love to see you at both events! Come out and say "Hi!" or "Bonjour!" READ: I've got a new series introducing how to use Spring with Microsoft Azure. It'll have six parts, with new installments every Monday and Thursday for three weeks. We've already published parts one and two…

Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server (2/6)

Engineering | January 07, 2019 | ...
This is part 2 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure (1/6)

Engineering | January 03, 2019 | ...
This is part 1 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

Spring Tips: RSocket

Engineering | January 02, 2019 | ...
speaker: Josh Long Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the promising, reactive, elastic and fantastic protocol and Reactor-powered project RSocket from Facebook.

This Week in Spring - 1 January 2019

Engineering | January 01, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Happy New Years to you! Here's hoping that your new year is healthier and happier than the last. Did you notice that spiffy new numeral in the date? 2019? Isn't that 'perty?? We made it! (We're now a year away from 2020! I don't know why that year holds so much sway for me...) Also, this is the eighth anniversary of This Week in Spring! I started this series in the first week of January 2011. We've come a long way since then! This is as good a time as any to remind you that I love this community and I love reading what you're up to. It's a pleasure to learn with you. As always…

Spring Tips: Bootiful Alibaba

Engineering | December 26, 2018 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring Cloud integrations for some of Alibaba's open source infrastructure, namely Nacos and Sentinel, and then we look at the Spring Cloud Alibaba Alibaba Cloud integrations for the Alibaba public cloud. speaker: Josh Long

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