
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

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Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 3min
Spring Security legend Laura Spilca joins us to talk Spring Authorization Server and upgrading to Spring Boot 3
Spring Security legend Laura Spilca joins and discusses all things security, OAuth, upgrading to Spring Boot 3. They emphasize the importance of security in Spring applications, SSL reloading, and the introduction of Rest Client in Spring Framework 6.1.

Nov 23, 2023 • 1h 32min
iText creator and opensource legend Bruno Lowagie
Opensource legend Bruno Lowagie discusses his journey in Java, creating the iText PDF library, development of the first PDF library Rook PDF, the early days of iText, and the impact of decision-making on family and company. They also chat about movies, film festivals, and renovating a cinema.

Nov 16, 2023 • 40min
Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine
Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
Have you tried out Spring Boot 3.2? It comes out NEXT week on the 23rd! Get the bits and try them out now! https://start.spring.io
This week I am joined by Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine (@alexismp)

Nov 9, 2023 • 50min
Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter at Devoxx Belgium 2023
Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter (@speakjava), recorded live at Devoxx Belgium 2023!

Nov 2, 2023 • 46min
GraalVM founder and Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger about the project he created and leads, GraalVM. This was recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2023!

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Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 7min
Mr. ”Spring in Action” himself Craig Walls
Craig Walls, author of 'Spring in Action', talks about the origins of Flowable, modularity in Spring applications, refreshing configuration in Spring Cloud Kubernetes, excitement around Spring AI and declarative risk clients, skepticism about self-driving cars, and finding and connecting online.

Oct 19, 2023 • 38min
VMware Vice President Betty Junod
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to VMware vice president [Betty Junod](https://twitter.com/BettyJunod) about VMware, its fantastic people, ecosystem, technologies, and more.

Oct 12, 2023 • 25min
Java Language Architect Brian Goetz
Hi, Spring fans! Are you using Java 21 in production already? No? you should listen to this episode. Yes? Then you should listen to this episode! This week, Josh Long talks to legendary Java Language Architect [Brian Goetz (@BrianGoetz)](https://twitter.com/BrianGoetz) recaping the latest-and-greatest and previewing Java.next

Oct 5, 2023 • 45min
Spring Data legend Greg Turnquist on optimizations, queries, and more
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll talk to Spring Data legend [Greg Turnquist (@gregturn)](https://twitter.com/gregturn) about the incredible next-level optimizations and query enhancements, the work in general, and so much more. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023 in Las Vegas!

Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 2min
Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack
Dr. Mark Pollack, Lead of the new Spring AI project, discusses collaboration using Spring Boot and Axon, introduces the Spring AI project, showcases the usage of Spring CLI to create a new project, explores prompt templates using Spring Framework resource abstraction, and talks about retrieving information from Wikipedia and sharing resources.