Episodes

Thursday May 05, 2022
Java Champion and Spring Katas legend Chandra Guntur
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion and Java ecosystem luminary Chandra Guntur (@cguntur) about Java, Spring, and the Spring Katas, among other things.

Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Simon Ritter, Java Champion and deputy CTO at Azul
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Azul Deputy CTO and Java's own mad scientist and luminary [Simon Ritter (@speakjava)](https://twitter.com/SpeakJava)

Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud luminary and all-around lovable guy Glenn Renfro (@cppwfs) about batch processing, tasks, messaging, integration, data flow, and a million other things. Also: t-shirts!

Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Cloud guru Tiffany Jernigan
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talk about his first in-person conference since the pandemic descended upon us -the fabulous Devnexus 2022 show - and talks to colleague, teacher, friend, and Kubernetes legend [Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj)](https://twitter.com/tiffanyfayj).

Thursday Apr 07, 2022
GraphQL Java founder Andi Marek
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of a Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to the GraphQL Java project founder and lead, Atlassian engineer, and Spring GraphQL cofounder Andi Marek (@andimarek).

Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Craig McLuckie, Kubernetes cofounder and vice president of R&D at VMware
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Kubernetes cofounder, all around nice person, and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie (@cmcluck).

Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to an event streaming guru at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, Jan Svoboda about Apache Kafka design patterns.
- Kafka summit in London Europe end of April 2022 Kafka Summit London 2022 | April 25-26 | London, UK
- Thank you, Microsoft Azure, for sponsoring the hosting of this show
- the Confluent Developer Education Portal: Your Apache Kafka® Journey begins here
- check out the upcoming Kafka Summit London event April 25-26, 2022

Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Elastic’s Felix Barnsteiner on APM for Spring Developers
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Elastic's Felix Barnsteiner about APM for Spring developers. Thank you Microsoft for sponsoring the hosting for the show - make log onboarding easier. Start here. - use this to make slow methods show up in traces

Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former fellow Spring Developer Advocate at Tanzu, and current Java Developer Advocate at Microsoft, friend, ally, and altogether amazing human being, Mark Heckler (@mkheck). [Thanks, Microsoft Azure, for sponsoring the hosting costs for this show](https://aka.ms/ads/JoshLong)

Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
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)

Thursday Feb 24, 2022
InfoQ editor and Java Champion, Dr. Alex Blewitt
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
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.

Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Java team luminary Sharat Chander
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
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

Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Jens Schauder on his journey through depression
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
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/

Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
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.

Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
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.

Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
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.

Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
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).

Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Spring Cloud cofounder Spencer Gibb (and happy new year!)
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
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).

Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
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!

Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Yugabyte CEO Karthik Ranganathan
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
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!)

Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Ronald Dehuysser, Creator of the Distributed Job Scheduler JobRunr
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
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.

Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Transformative leader, brilliant technologist, my friend, Patrick Chanezon
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
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).

Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
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/)

Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Reactive-System and Functional Programming legend Debasish Ghosh
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
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!

Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Fellow Java Champion Kate Stanley on Kubernetes and Apache Kafka
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
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.

Thursday Nov 11, 2021
JMS and Messaging legend, HornetQ and Artemis cofounder, Clebert Suconic
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
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.

Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
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).

Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
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.

Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
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!

Thursday Oct 14, 2021
.NET legend Layla on Azure Spring Cloud, Steeltoe.NET, and more
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
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).