About

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, open-source hacker, book/video author and speaker

I've been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. I'm a Java Champion and author of 6 books, including:

I've also produced best-selling video training (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and am an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin, etc), a podcaster (A Bootiful Podcast) and a YouTuber on "Spring Tips" and "Coffee and Software".

Courses Contributed

Building a REST API with Spring Boot
Beginner

Building a REST API with Spring Boot

In this beginner course, you’ll learn how to build a complete REST API from start to finish with Spring Boot. With our interactive labs, you’ll get hands-on practice every step of the way — bootstrapping with Spring Initializr, through authenticating & authorizing with Spring Security.