A Bootiful Podcast

I'm Josh Long (twitter.com/Starbuxman), a humble Spring advocate at @VMWare and this is a (twitter.com/BootifulPodcast) a Bootiful Podcast, a celebration of the real heroes that drive ecosystems.

The legendary Bruce Eckel on language design, effects, abstraction, concurrency, and so much more

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.

11-14
02:13:08

The Vaadin team, live from Vaadin Create 2025

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.

11-06
58:44

Elastic’s developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

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

10-30
53:15

Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more

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

10-23
01:16:07

Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger

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

10-16
31:50

Spring Security contributor Josh Cummings on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Security 7

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

10-09
57:56

Dr. Kris De Volder on developer tooling for Spring developers

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring tooling legend Dr. Kris De Volder

10-02
44:36

Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine

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.

09-25
39:05

Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb

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!

09-18
39:29

Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom

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!

09-11
14:14

Spring Cloud guru Ryan Baxter

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

09-04
35:46

JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what’s new in version 8

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/

08-28
24:06

Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA

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!

08-21
36:43

Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm

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!

08-14
50:11

Andrew Lombardi, Beginning Spring AI co-author, and friend of the show

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

08-07
26:46

Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7.0, SpringOne 2025, and more

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 ?)

07-31
44:07

José Paumard, Java developer advocate and professor

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,

07-25
36:03

Spring legends Tasha Isenberg and Jason Konicki

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?

07-17
43:00

API oracle Arjen Poutsma

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

07-10
29:34

Dr. Heinz Kabutz, a legendary Java Champion, teacher, and author of the Java Specialists newsletter!

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

07-03
27:04

mrRobot

Antibiotics are no use when you have a virus.

08-29 Reply

Afshin Amini

The link for building image for spring boot (which is mention at 1':16" time): https://medium.com/@TimvanBaarsen/first-look-at-cloud-native-buildpacks-support-in-spring-boot-2-3-milestone-1-ece8e72ed93f

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