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I'm Josh Long (@starbuxman), a humble Spring developer advocate at @VMWare, and this is A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), a celebration of the real heroes that drive ecosystems.
I'm Josh Long (@starbuxman), a humble Spring developer advocate at @VMWare, and this is A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), a celebration of the real heroes that drive ecosystems.
Episodes

Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Spring Cloud guru Ryan Baxter
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the amazing Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter, live from SpringOne 2025!

Thursday Aug 28, 2025
JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what’s new in version 8
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, fresh after an exciting and exhausting SpringOne 2025, I am thrilled to have talked with JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what's new in version 8 JobRunr - https://www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/v8-release/

Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA
Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to Andrey Belyaev, a Product Manager at JetBrains working on the IntelliJ IDEA product, about the latest-and-greatest support for Spring in Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA!

Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I caught up with architecture guru and Spring Modulith founder and lead Oliver Drotbohm and we looked at some of the amazing possibilities in Spring Modulith 2.0, coming after Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 drop later this year!

Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Andrew Lombardi, Beginning Spring AI co-author, and friend of the show
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I am thrilled to talk to my longtime friend Andrew Lombardi about the latest-and-greatest, his new book _Beginning Spring AI_, and more

Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7.0, SpringOne 2025, and more
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Spring Security lead Rob Winch to discuss the amazing new additions to Spring Security 7.0, coming in November of 2025, and the coverage you can expect when you see our talk at SpringOne 2025 (have you registered - https://springone.io ?)

Thursday Jul 24, 2025
José Paumard, Java developer advocate and professor
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, recorded at Devoxx UK 2025, I talk to the legendary professor of computer science and legend José Paumard about Java, the ecosystem, and more,

Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Spring legends Tasha Isenberg and Jason Konicki
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I speak with Spring legends Jason Konicki and Tasha Isenberg about Spring, the ecosystem, and SpringOne 2025. (By the way, have you registered for it yet - https://springone.io?

Thursday Jul 10, 2025
API oracle Arjen Poutsma
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliant Arjen Poutsma, our go-to API oracle. If you’re curious about his fantastic insights, thoughts, and consultancy services, be sure to check out: https://poutsma-principles.com

Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Dr. Heinz Kabutz, a legendary Java Champion, trainer, teacher, and author of the Java Specialists newsletter! This episode was recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025

Thursday Jun 26, 2025
DevOps and AI luminary Patrick Debois
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Hi, Spring, cloud native, and AI fans! In this installment, I had the opportunity to briefly sit down and talk with DevOps and AI luminary Patrick Debois, from the amazing Devoxx UK 2025 show.

Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I talk to Micrometer.io lead Tommy Ludwig on the latest-and-greatest in observability for the Spring developer

Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
The legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more, recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025.

Thursday Jun 05, 2025
IntelliJ IDEA project lead Aleksey Stukalov
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov

Thursday May 29, 2025
Java community legend Victor Rentea
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Victor Rentea. This episode was recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025.

Thursday May 22, 2025
Spring IO founder Sergi Almar on Spring IO 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Hi, Spring and Spring I/O fans! In this installment we have the privilege of chatting with friend of the community and legend Sergi Almar about the amazing Spring IO 2025, where this episode was published, and a lot more.

Thursday May 15, 2025
Eclipse Collections legend Donald Raab
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, we talk to Eclipse Collections founder Donald Raab

Thursday May 08, 2025
V Körbes on security from the platform on up
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In today's extra special installment I talk to Broadcom's V Körbes who works on security above and below the application.

Thursday May 01, 2025
Spring instructor Mary Ellen Bowman
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Mary Ellen Bowman, a legendary Spring instructor!

Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Java Champion, Tessl Devrel head, friend, Virtual JUG co-founder Simon Maple
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with Java Champion, Tessl Devrel head, Virtual JUG co-founder, and friend Simon Maple! This episode was recorded at the amazing ArcOfAI conference held in amazing Austin, TX!

Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Jeff Genender on Apache, ActiveMQ, AI, the Java community, and more
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by well-known member of the Java community Jeff Genender, whose contributions to Apache over the decades have driven several key projects with which you're no doubt familiar.

Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Wiremock’s Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Wiremock's leaders Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst

Thursday Apr 03, 2025
AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward about AWS Bedrock, Amazon Cohere, Spring AI, MCP, and so much more!

Thursday Mar 27, 2025
My friend Anthony Dahanne on Buildpacks, Production, Docker images, and more
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Salut fans de Spring! In this installment I'm joined by the legendary Anthony Dahanne. If you've enjoyed success in production using Spring's built-in spring-boot:build-image capability, you've got today's guest Anthony to thank for it!

Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Java Champion and legend Henri Tremblay
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Henri Tremblay, head of TS Imagine Canada, Java Champion, Montreal JUG leader, EasyMock lead dev and all around legend!

Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Micrometer legend Jonatan Ivanov
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to one of the Willy Wonka's of observability, the amazing Jonatan Ivanov! This episode was recorded at ConFoo 2025.

Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer at SAP
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 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.

Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr Moritz legend Halbritter

Thursday Feb 20, 2025
BellSoft’s Catherine Edelveis
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Hi, Spring and JDK fans! In this week's episode I talk to BellSoft developer advocate Catherine Edelveis #java #springboot #jre #jdk #graalvm #CRaC

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Spring Legend Glenn Renfro on Devnexus 2025, Cold brews, and More
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.
