Josh Long is a Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. He discusses various Spring and microservices related topics including: - The single responsibility principle and how it relates to microservices and Unix tools. - Exposing services simply using REST which has no strict rules but embraces HTTP verbs and status codes. - The Richardson Maturity Model for grading APIs on their REST compliance from Level 0 to Level 3. - Security topics like OAuth, SSL/TLS, and ensuring applications are production ready with monitoring and management.