
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

Sep 21, 2023 • 45min
Java community legend Sharat Chander, just in time for Java 21
Java community legend Sharat Chander discusses working remotely, the importance of recording content, understanding Java's dependency chain, and celebrating Spring and Spring Boot milestones.

Sep 7, 2023 • 1h 31min
Spring Security lead Rob Winch
Spring Security legend and lead Rob Winch discusses topics such as exploring Oslo, improvements in Java language, efficient binaries with Growvium Native Image, surprises at a conference, breach protection and passwords, feature additions and migration to version six, getting help with Antora documentation, configuring web security filter chain with H2P Security Builder, options for authentication and authorization, exploring multi-factor authentication and WebAuth, building and extending with Spring Security

Aug 31, 2023 • 1h 13min
Spring Security and Kubernetes legend Daniel Garnier-Moiroux
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Spring contributor and adjunct professor at Mines Paris, [Daniel Garnier-Moiroux (@kehrlann)](https://twitter.com/kehrlann), about the wild and wonderful intersection of all things Spring Security and Kubernetes, productized Spring Cloud Services, and more, recorded live at SpringOne 2023 from Las Vegas, Nevada!

Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 47min
A Roving Conversation with Legendary Cloud Native Chris Richardson
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to original cloud native Chris Richardson (@crichardson) on microservices, architecture, and more.

Aug 17, 2023 • 46min
R2DBC Proxy creator Tadaya Tsuyukubo
HI, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to R2DBC Proxy creator Tadaya Tsuyukubo, @ttddyy, creator of R2DBC Proxy and others

Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 8min
Spring Cloud cofounder and lead Spencer Gibb on Spring Cloud Gateway for the Servlet API in the era of Project Loom
Spencer Gibb, Spring Cloud cofounder and lead, talks about building a gateway in Spring Cloud, the limitations of the previous interface called Zul, and the compatibility of the project with different versions of Java. They also discuss the usage of reactive gateway, declarative HDB clients, and GraphQL in a demo, and explore topics related to Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Gateway, including Spring Cloud OpenFeign, Spring Cloud SquareRetrofit, and Spring Boot external configuration quirks. Additionally, they cover different distributed mechanisms and data storage options and discuss the pros and cons of using the new gateway in different scenarios.

Aug 3, 2023 • 41min
UL Systems founder and chairman, Urushibara-san, interviews.. me?
Hi, Spring fans! I just crossed 13 years on the Spring team! I just got to spend a lovely day here in Tokyo, Japan, in the presence of one of my heroes and friends, UL Systems founder and chairman, Shigeru Urushibara-san (@ulsystems), and in this episode, we sort of flip the script, and we had a brief discussion where he interviewed me. If you want a great discussion where there's a ton to learn... then you might want to check out this episode where I interviewed him in 2021! Otherwise, listen on. Thank you, Urushibara-san!

Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 2min
Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to the legendary Dr. David Syer about view rendering technologies, SpringOne, and more.
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Jul 20, 2023 • 41min
Java legend Simon Martinelli on Spring, Vaadin, JavaOOQ, and so more
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long](https://youtube.com/@coffeesoftware) talks to Java legend [Simon Martinelli](https://martinelli.ch/) about Vaadin, Spring, JavaOOQ, and more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain at the amazing Spring I/O show!

Jul 13, 2023 • 47min
Spring Framework and Spring Boot legend Stéphane Nicoll on a Bootiful Podcast
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of _A Bootiful Podcast_! In this installment, [Josh Long](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Spring team legend [Stéphane Nicoll](https://twitter.com/snicoll) about Spring Boot, Apache Maven and Gradle, his journey to the Spring team, and so much more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain, from the epic Spring I/O event in May of 2023!