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)

Blog posts by Josh Long

A Bootiful Podcast: Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer at SAP

Engineering | March 06, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. His work today comprises many open-source contributions and his blog, where he regularly writes on in-depth profiling and debugging topics. He also works on hello-ebpf, the first eBPF library for Java.

Spring gRPC 0.4.0 for great good!

Engineering | March 04, 2025 | ...

NB: you can find the working code for this blog here

There's a new release of the amazing—if experimental—Spring gRPC project: version 0.4.0. I won't get into the nitty-gritty of all that's new, but I just wanted to highlight how elated I am to use it and walk you through the step-by-step path to gRPC joy. A million little things fall into place to make it the smoothest experience I've ever had using gRPC!

I went to the Spring Initializr and selected GRPC, GraalVM, and Web. I'm a Maven enjoyer, but you do you. I chose Java 23, 'natch, since Java 24 is coming in a week or two. I figured this…

This Week in Sprng - March 4th, 2025

Engineering | March 04, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, and Happy Devnexus 2025 to those who celebrate! That's right sports fans, I'm off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia later today for Devnexus, one of the world's largest annual gatherings of Java community and luminaries alike. I'll be doing a talk on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot as well as another talk looking at Spring AI with the legendary Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring AI. And, of course, I'll be soaking up all the other talks by Spring luminaries like Glenn Renfro, Jonatan Ivanov, Ken Kousen, Ryan Baxter…

This Week in Spring - February 25th, 2025

Engineering | February 25, 2025 | ...

This Week in Spring - February 18th, 2025

Engineering | February 18, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's the week of February 18th, 2025, and you know what that means? ConFoo and Devnexus are nearly here! Next week, I'll be traveling to amazing Montreal, Canada, to speak at the ConFoo show for an amazing community, poutine, and technology! Then, a few days later, it's off to awesome Atlanta, Georgia, where I'll be doing a workshop, a talk on Spring AI with Dr. Mark Pollack, and my usual Spring Boot latest-and-greatest talk. If you're going to either of those shows (why not both?), please don't hesitate to say "salut" or "hello"!

There's a lot of great stuff in this week's…

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Engineering | February 11, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

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