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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.
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Feb 12, 2026
Feb 12, 2026
21 min
Hi, Spring fans! I've been waiting for this episode for so long! Today, we're finally joined by my friend Richard Fichtner, who so took pity on my plight waiting for music to be added to the GraalVM that his company, XDev Software, created the `music-maven-plugin`, the best Maven plugin, ever! This episode was recorded live at the amazing JFokus 2026 event!

Feb 5, 2026
Feb 5, 2026
53 min
hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to Jetbrains legend Marco Behler

Jan 29, 2026
Jan 29, 2026
46 min
Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.

Jan 22, 2026
Jan 22, 2026
1 hr 10 min
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!

Jan 14, 2026
Jan 14, 2026
46 min
Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Jan 8, 2026
Jan 8, 2026
46 min
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.

Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025
1 hr 12 min
In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!

Dec 25, 2025
Dec 25, 2025
56 min
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_! * get the book here https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-software/9781098143220/

Dec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
1 hr 2 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release. Happy holidays, one and all!

Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025
32 min
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!

Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025
37 min
Hi, Spring fans! I'm so excited to chat with fellow Spring developer advocate Dan Vega about his new book, "Fundamentals of Software Engineering" https://www.danvega.dev/books/fundamentals-of-software-engineering

Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025
44 min
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving from me, and I am sure the entire Spring team, to you! We are, it should be clear, oh so very grateful.. thankful.. for you, the community. This week it is my great pleasure to chat with Spring community legend Simon Martinelli.

Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025
1 hr 1 min
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits at start.spring.io! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the legendary Sébastien Deleuze!

Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
2 hr 13 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I sit down with the legendary Bruce Eckel, who has probably forgotten more about programming languages than I will ever know, and whose book _Thinking in Java_ helped launch me into a career.

Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025
58 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I had the privilege to sit down with Vaadin legends Joonas Lehtinen, Marcus Hellberg, and Leif Åstrand at the amazing Vaadin Create 2025 event in Frankfurt, Germany.

Oct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
53 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to my friend and Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
1 hr 16 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more

Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
31 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Weurthinger, recorded at Devoxx 2025!

Oct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
57 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025
44 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring tooling legend Dr. Kris De Volder

Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
39 min
hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary lead of the Spring Batch project, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Batch in the Spring Boot 4 generation.

Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025
39 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!

Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025
14 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the general manager of Tanzu, the legendary Purnima Padmanabhan, about AI, the power of the platform, and more. Recorded live from SpringOne 2025!

Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025
35 min
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the amazing Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter, live from SpringOne 2025!

Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
24 min
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/

Aug 21, 2025
Aug 21, 2025
36 min
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!

Aug 14, 2025
Aug 14, 2025
50 min
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!

Aug 7, 2025
Aug 7, 2025
26 min
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

Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025
44 min
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 ?)

Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025
36 min
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,
