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)
Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already the 20th of January and we are off on yet another rip roarin' adventure as we look at the week that has been... this week in Spring!
AskUserQuestionTool. This blog is about agents that clarify before actingHi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer
Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 13th of January, 2026, and it's been quite the week indeed! Let's dive right into it!
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project.
Hi, Spring fans, to the first installment of This Week in Spring in the new year and, roughly, the fifteenth anniversary edition of this series! I've been writing these blogs since the first week of January of 2011, and I am proud to say that I haven't (so far) missed a single week! I've always published it on Tuesday (with some fuzziness around whose Tuesday, as I tend to bounce around the globe a fair bit). I want to thank, as I always do, Spring cofounder Keith Donald for this wonderful and simple idea. He dropped it in my lap and said to give it a shot, and I've never looked back. He's no…
In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!
Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as I write this - looking back fondly at the last week of, and the entire year of, 2025.
That's right! It's time for my yearly tradition of retroactive year-end navel‑gazing and analysis; it's time for This Year in Spring, where we review the good, the great, and the amazing: the top five best…
Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom (in the best possible way), Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book Foundations of Software Engineering!
Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases (and patches) since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from the community, so we’ve got a lot to dig into this week. So, without further ado…
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