
A Bootiful Podcast
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.
Latest episodes

May 3, 2024 • 1h 2min
Carl Azoury, Zenika founder, CEO, and friend to the community
Carl Azoury, Zenika founder and CEO, discusses the evolution of tech companies and frameworks, the importance of community engagement, the transition to focus on DevOps and cloud technologies, green IT practices and sustainability, coding journey and company operations, and the enduring impact of the Spring community.

Apr 26, 2024 • 33min
Spring and Platform engineer Daniel Garnier-Moiroux
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and colleague Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the amazing awesome implications of passkeys in a Spring Security application.

Apr 18, 2024 • 1h 51min
Spring founders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller on the 20th Anniversary of Spring Framework 1.0
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson (@springrod) and Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004

Apr 11, 2024 • 1h 18min
Marit van Dijk, Jetbrains Developer Advocate
Jetbrains Developer Advocate Marit van Dijk discusses reading code, IntelliJ IDEA, and more. Topics include AI innovations, navigating time zones in Java programming, transitioning back to software development, benefits of code reading clubs, enhancing code reading with IDE tools, and the necessity of documentation in project development.

Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 32min
Netflix’s Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring Boot

Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 37min
Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi on _Beginning Spring 6_
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I'm joined by Java luminaries and Apress' _Beginning Spring 6_ authors Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi.

Mar 21, 2024 • 2h 17min
Stuart Marks (aka ”Dr. Deprecator”) on Java, its amazing features, and more
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! To ring in the new release, we've got an extra special and incredible discussion with a Java legend - somebody who's been involved in the Java community and work for _decades_ - Stuart Marks, or "Dr. Deprecator," as he's affectionately known in the community.

Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 31min
Spring Boot Testjars founder Rob Winch
Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment we talk Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security and founder of the exciting new project Spring Boot Testjars.

Mar 7, 2024 • 51min
Cristian Schuszter on CERN
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Cristian Schuszter, a software engineer at CERN. (This episode was recorded live at VOXXED DAYS CERN!). Don't forget to help us out with the [State of Spring Survey](https://dimensionalresearch.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eL0aSP7GSnporTE)

Feb 29, 2024 • 41min
Roni Dover on Digma AI
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Digma AI founder Roni Dover.
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