A Bootiful Podcast

Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to former Akka lead and deputy CTO at Lightbend, engineering director at Sinch, Reactive Streams cofounder, the one and only legendary [Viktor Klang (@viktorklang)](https://twitter.com/viktorklang)

InfoQ editor and Java Champion, Dr. Alex Blewitt

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to InfoQ editor and contributor, fellow Java Champion, and an all-around amazing human being Dr. Alex Blewitt.

• the creator of bash, readline etc)
• Reload4j is the version which has Log4j 1.x compatibility with CVEs fixed
• Alex's blog and speaker deck
• Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia
• Thanks to Microsoft Azure for sponsoring this episode

Java team luminary Sharat Chander

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman)  talks to @Java team luminary and community legend [Sharat Chander (@sharat_chander). Thank you to my friends at Microsoft Azure for sponsoring the show and in turn offsetting infrastructure costs associated with running the show. https://aka.ms/ads/JoshLong

Jens Schauder on his journey through depression

TRIGGER WARNING: this episode is not a typical episode and contains adult themes including depression and suicide. In this special episode, I, Josh Long (@starbuxman), listen to my friend Jens Schauder @jensschauder talk about his struggle with depression and he talks about some of the things he did to obtain and benefit from help. This has nothing to do with Spring except that he and I are people who work on Spring. Remember: there is help available and you are not alone. In Germany, 0800 111 0 111 or Telefonseelsorge https://www.telefonseelsorge.de/ In the USA, 1-800-273-8255 or the Suicide Prevention Lifeline https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ The US number is actually the title of a song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-800-273-8255_(song)  A list of other International suicide prevention hotlines: https://ibpf.org/resource/list-of-international-suicide-hotlines/ 

Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, [Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm)](https://twitter.com/odrotbohm) about building elegant architectures.

Spring Framework cofounder and project lead, friend, and all around amazing human being, Juergen Hoeller

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Framework co-founder and project lead, hero, friend, and all-around amazing human being, [Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen)](https://twitter.com/springjuergen) about Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3.

RedHat’s Kate Stanley on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to returning guest RedHat's [Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91)](https://twitter.com/KateStanley91) on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka.

Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Data Flow legend [Sabby Anandan (@sabbyanandan)](https://twitter.com/sabbyanandan).

Spring Cloud cofounder Spencer Gibb (and happy new year!)

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud co-founder, legend, and the all-around nice guy [Spencer Gibb (@spencerbgibb)](https://twitter.com/spencerbgibb).

Geertjan Wielenga, senior director of opensource projects at Azul Systems and Foojay.io founder

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks (again!) to [Java](https://twitter.com/java) ecosystem legend and senior director of opensource projects at [Azul Systems](https://twitter.com/AzulSystems), [Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW)](https://twitter.com/GeertjanW). Happy new year, everyone!

Yugabyte CEO Karthik Ranganathan

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a _Bootiful Podcast_! How are you doing? In this episode, we've got an extra special holiday treat for you! [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Yugabyte](https://twitter.com/Yugabyte) CEO and Apache Cassandra, and Apache HBase co-founder [Karthik Ranganathan (@karthikr)](https://twitter.com/karthikr). Merry Christmas (if you celebrate!)

Ronald Dehuysser, Creator of the Distributed Job Scheduler JobRunr

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to JobRunr.io creator [Ronald Dehuysser (@rdehuyss)](https://twitter.com/rdehuyss) about [JobRunr](https://www.jobrunr.io), which is a distributed job scheduling engine that plugs right into Spring Boot.

Transformative leader, brilliant technologist, my friend, Patrick Chanezon

Hi, Spring fans! In this week, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to transformational leader, my old boss, legendary technologist, and friend [Patrick Chanezon (@chanezon)](https://twitter.com/chanezon).

DataStax‘s Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to DataStax's [Christopher Bradford](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfordcp/) on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, [K8ssandra](https://k8ssandra.io/). * [KubeCon Talk blogpost part 1](https://thenewstack.io/taking-your-database-beyond-a-single-kubernetes-cluster/) * [KubeCon Talk blogpost part 2](https://medium.com/building-the-open-data-stack/managing-distributed-applications-in-kubernetes-using-cilium-and-istio-with-helm-and-operator-for-9652d71d6432) * [We Pushed Helm to the Limit, then Built a Kubernetes Operator ](https://thenewstack.io/we-pushed-helm-to-the-limit-then-built-a-kubernetes-operator/) * [A Case for Databases on Kubernetes from a Former Skeptic](https://thenewstack.io/a-case-for-databases-on-kubernetes-from-a-former-skeptic/)

Reactive-System and Functional Programming legend Debasish Ghosh

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to functional programming- and reactive systems-legend [Debasish Ghosh (@debasishg)](https://twitter.com/debasishg). And Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate!

Fellow Java Champion Kate Stanley on Kubernetes and Apache Kafka

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! This week - a week before Thanksgiving here in the US - [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) wants you to know he and the Spring team are_thankful_ for you, and then he talks to newly minted Java Champion and Java ecosystem legend [Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91)](https://twitter.com/KateStanley91) about Kubernetes and Apache Kafka.

JMS and Messaging legend, HornetQ and Artemis cofounder, Clebert Suconic

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Apache Artemis and messaging legend Clebert Suconic (@clebertsuconic). Check out ArtemisCloud.io for easy Kubernetes deployments of Apache Artemis.

Legend, Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids contributor, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Dutchess founder, [Devoxx4Kids Netherlands (@Devoxx4KidsNL)](https://twitter.com/Devoxx4KidsNL) leader, inspiring person, and fellow Java Champion [Linda van der Pal (@DuchessFounder)](https://twitter.com/DuchessFounder).

Daniel Mikusa on Buildpacks, Paketo, UPX, Tilt, GraalVM Native Images, Docker Containers and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://github.com/starbuxman) talks to Paketo contributor [Daniel Mikusa](https://github.com/dmikusa-pivotal) about buildpacks, Paketo, containers, UPX, and so much more.

RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder Alexis Richardson on RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talk to RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder [Alexis Richardson (@monadic)](https://twitter.com/monadic) about RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD. NB: this interview was done a _year_ ago, and I was just playing with FluxCD these last few weeks and I figured it was finally time to release this episode! Thanks so much Alexis for sharing and teaching us so much!

.NET legend Layla on Azure Spring Cloud, Steeltoe.NET, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman) ](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to teammate, .NET ecosystem legend and an awesome human being [Layla  (@LaylaCodesIt)](https://twitch.tv/LaylaCodesIt).

Heiko Scherrer on OpenWMS, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, workflow with Activiti and more

UPDATE: I published the wrong interview in an earlier publication of this episode! This isn't a dupe. Listen to this one instead :-) Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to OpenWMS founder [Heiko Scherrer (@openwms)](https://twitter.com/openwms) about OpenWMS, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, workflow with Activiti and more.

Spring Data engineer Christoph Strobl on MongoDB, Redis, GraphQL and Spring Native

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Data engineer [Christoph Strobl (@stroblchristoph)](http://twitter.com/stroblchristoph) about GraphQL, MongoDB, and Spring Native, among other things.

Spring web legend Rossen Stoyanchev on RSocket, GraphQL and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05)](http://twitter.com/rstoya05) about Spring, RSocket, GraphQL, and so much more.

The Good Dr. Mark Pollack on Spring.NET, physics, Spring Data, Spring XD, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_. In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to the one, the only, the amazing and [inimitable Dr. Mark Pollack (@MarkPollack)](https://twitter.com/MarkPollack) about physics, Spring.NET, Spring Data, Spring XD, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more!

Spring Security engineer Josh Cummings

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuman)](https://twitter.com/starbuman) talks about pumpkin spice lattes, COVID, labor day, and then gets to talk to Spring Security engineer [Josh Cummings (@jzheaux)](https://twitter.com/jzheaux)

SpringOne 2021 and Tatu Saloranta

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman )](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) breathlessly recaps some of the exciting news from the just-finished SpringOne 2021 event and then talks to Jackson and Woodstox creator [Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)](http://twitter.com/cowtowncoder), whose code is no doubt at the heart of some of your Spring applications.

Richard North and Sergei Egorov on Testcontainers, their new company AtomicJar, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _This Week in Spring_! In this installment, Josh Long talks to [Richard North (@whichrich)](https://twitter.com/whichrich) and [Sergei Egorov (@bsideup)](https://twitter.com/bsideup) about Testcontainers, their new company AtomicJars, and software licensing, among other things.

Microsoft Azure engineering manager Rome Li on his work supporting Microsoft Azure in IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Maven, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's [Rome Li (@akalirong)](http://twitter.com/akalirong) on his work supporting Microsoft Azure from IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Maven, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code.

Neo4J CEO and Spring Data cofounder Emil Eifrem on graphs, Neo4J, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Neo4j CEO and Spring Data cofounder [Emil Eifrem (@emileifrem) ](https://twitter.com/emileifrem).