A Bootiful Podcast

Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to one of the most inspiring people in the technology world, a friend, and inspiration, [Mr. Shigeru Urushibara (@urucrunch)](https://twitter.com/urucrunch). Urushibara-san is a Java and Spring programmer and a general technology enthusiast. He's founder, president, and director of ULS Group Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Tokyo that is listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange and that employs hundreds of people. He's a friend of the Java community and we're honored to have him on the show.

fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to inspiration, legend and fellow Java champion and legend [Angie Jones (@techgirl1908)](http://twitter.com/techgirl1908). Also: Java 16, the R2DBC driver for Oracle database, Spring Native (GraalVM!), and Bootiful Cassandra!

FF4J project creator and DataStax Astra SDK engineer Cedrick Lunven

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to FF4J project creator and DataStax Astra SDK engineer [Cedrick Lunven (@clunven)](http://twitters.com/clunven).

Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling on API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead [Chris Sterling (@csterwa)](http://twitter.com/csterwa) about API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud, and more.

Spring legend Greg Turnquist on Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, continuous integration and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring legend [Greg Turnquist (@gregturn)](http://twitter.com/gregturn) about Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, CI, and so much more.

Gitlab's Reshmi Krishna on the developer lifecycle

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Gitlab's Reshmi Krishna (@reshmi9k)](http://twitter.com/reshmi9k) about the developer lifecycle, cloud-native computing, working at Gitlab and Pivotal, and more. * [the Gitlab handbook](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/) * [Gitlab's Twitter](http://twitter.com/gitlab) account

Doordash tech lead manager Zohaib Sibte Hassan on Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Doordash tech lead manager [Zohaib Sibte Hassan (@zohaibility)](http://twitter.com/zohaibility) about Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, organizational scalability, and more at Doordash. * the [Doordash Engineering blog](https://doordash.engineering/) * [A GRPC Spring Boot Starter](https://github.com/LogNet/grpc-spring-boot-starter) * the Gitter [chat for R2DBC](https://gitter.im/R2DBC/r2dbc) * [Zohaib on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zohaibsibtehassan/)

RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to RSocket legend and new Reactor team member [Oleh Dokuka (@OlehDokuka)](https://twitter.com/OlehDokuka) about RSocket routing, the RSocket broker, Netty, HTTP3 and Quick, the `RSocketClient`, and so much more.

Hypertrace Java Agent creator Pavol Loffay

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Hypertrace Java Agent creator  [Pavol Loffay (@ploffay)](http://twitter.com/ploffay)

Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert on sustainable software

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Tools lead [Martin Lippert (@martinlippert)](https://twitter.com/martinlippert) about sustainability in software, specifically, and I.T., generally. - the slides to Martin's talk [_Sustainability in Software Engineering_](https://speakerdeck.com/martinlippert/sustainability-in-software-engineering-eclipsecon-2020-edition ) , as presented at EclipseCON 2020 - and [here is the video for that talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJVhEy0ka4)

Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_. This week, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Stream [lead Oleg Zhurakousky (@z_oleg)](https://twitter.com/z_oleg).

Netty and Armeria founder Trustin Lee

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Netty and Armeria founder [Trustin Lee (@trustin)](http://twitter.com/trustin). * [Armeria](http://Armeria.dev) * [Netty](https://netty.io/) * [Apache Mina ](https://mina.apache.org/) * [Trustin's Twitter](https://twitter.com/trustin ) * [Trustin's Twitter in Korean](https://twitter.com/trustin_ko) * [Blog](https://t.motd.kr/) * [Trustin's Talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuWz7MpEAx_fPDwy0yus3SJdzWVtu3mwc) * [Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/trustin) * Chat with Trustin in the [Armeria Slack workspace](https://armeria.dev/s/slack)

Google's Daniel Zou on Spring Cloud GCP, GraalVM and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast and happy new year! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Google's [Daniel Zou ](https://github.com/dzou)

Alibaba's San-Hong Li on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba Scale

Hi, Spring fans! This week [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Alibaba's [San Hong Li (@SanHong_Li)](http://twitter.com/SanHong_li) on tuning OpenJDK for Alibaba-scale. Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to you!

Cloud Foundry Developer Advocate Shedrack Akintayo

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Cloud Foundry Developer Advocate [Shedrack Akintayo (@coder_blvck)](http://twitter.com/code_blvck) . Also: Happy Holidays!

Open web legend Dion Almaer

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) who is known for so many contributions to the Java ecosystem and beyond. I know him as a former editor in chief of TheServerSide.com, but you may know him for his work championing the open web at Palm, Walmart, and Google, and many more.

Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine

Hi, Spring fans! In this special midweek installment I (Josh Long) correct a mistake I made last week when I inadvertently released the episode featuring open-web legend Dion Almaer with the interview I conducted with the inspirational and oh-so-amazing Spring Batch co-lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine. This is the actual episode with [Mahmoud Ben Hassine (@benas)](http://twittercom/benas), with the correct title and everything! Enjoy!

Dr. Heinz Kabutz

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long talks to his hero, longtime friend (9+ years and counting!), inspiration and a person who has made the JVM a better place to deploy software and the JVM community a better place for people to build software through his JavaSpecialists newsletter and through his amazing content: Dr. Heinz Kabutz. 'Nuff said. Enjoy!

Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! In this episode, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Swarna Podila (@skpodila)](http://twitter.com/skpodila) about Cloud Foundry, networks and Hashicorp, among other things. Happy Thanksgiving! * [Hashicorp Cloud Platform](https://www.hashicorp.com/cloud-platform) * [Waypoint](https://www.waypointproject.io) * [Cloud Foundry](https://cloudfoundry.org)

Programmer, Agile coach, technologist, and troublemaker Dan North

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Dan North (@tastapod)](http://twitter.com/tastapod), creator of BDD, optimizer of teams and all around legend.

Spring Boot 2.4, and then living legend, CTO, and friend John Davies

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a _Bootiful Podcast_! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) looks at the week that was, talks about the JUST released Spring Boot 2.4, and then talks to industry legend and larger-than-life friend [John Davies (@jtdavies)](http://twitter.com/jtdavies) a

Spring legend Thomas Risberg on JDBC, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Kubernetes and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh talks to Spring legend [Thomas Risberg (@trisberg)](http://twitter.com/trisberg).

Spring Test Framework lead Sam Brannen

Hi Spring fans! This week, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to legendary Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor [Sam Brannen (@sam_brannen)](http://twitter.com/sam_brannen)

Optic CEO Aidan Cunniffe on OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to [Optic (@UseOptic)](http://twitter.com/UseOptic) CEO [Aidan Cunniffe (@aidandcunniffe)](http://twitter.com/UseOptic)

DataStax's Patrick McFadin on DataStax Astra, Cassandra, Cassandra data modeling patterns, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks about all the wonderful shows he's been at, the epic new support for Kubernetes-ready native images in Spring Boot 2.3 and Spring Boot 2.4, and then he talks to DataStax's own [Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin)](http://twitter.com/PatrickMcFadin), a legend in the JVM and Cassandra communities, and an all around amiable gent.

Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer Audrey Neveu

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer [Audrey Neveu (@Audrey_Neveu)](http://twitter.com/Audrey_Neveu)

Longtime Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma on Spring's web support, Scala, API Design, Reactive programming and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_. In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to longtime Spring Framework engineer and team "bass player" [Arjen Poutsma (@poutsma)](http://twitter.com/poutsma)

Sentry CTO David Cramer on Automated Error Capture and Analysis

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks about the wide world of webdevelopment with CSS, Figma, AdobeXD and more, and then talks to Sentry CTO [David Cramer (@zeeg)](https://twitter.com/zeeg) about easy error capture and analysis with Sentry and Spring. * Want to see the worldwide flurry of activity as errors make their way to Sentry? [Check this out](https://live.sentry.io)

Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Lightbend CTO [Jonas Bonér (@jboner)](http://twitter.com/jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed and reactive work.

Legendary Spring contributor Rossen Stoyanchev on all things web, reactive and RSocket

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment of a _Bootiful Podcast_, [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks about the week that was, his new book "Reactive Spring," and then talks to one of the most senior engineers on the Spring team and a longtime contributor to all things web and reactive - [Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya08)](http://twitter.com/rstoya08).