Josh Long

A Bootiful Podcast

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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.

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Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer 14.01.2026 46:45

Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Spring Security lead Rob Winch 08.01.2026 46:46

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project.

Apache Tomcat legend Mark Thomas (Happy new year!) 01.01.2026 1:12:14

In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!

the legendary Nate Schutta, teacher, friend, and.. harbinger of doom! 25.12.2025 56:50

Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom (in the best possible way), Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book _Foundations of Software Engineering_! * get the book here https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-software/9781098143220/

Spring cofounder Juergen Hoeller on the amazing Spring Framework 7 release 18.12.2025 1:02:53

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release. Happy holidays, one and all!

The legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more 11.12.2025 32:38

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!

Dan Vega on the fundamentals of software engineering 04.12.2025 37:08

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so excited to chat with fellow Spring developer advocate Dan Vega about his new book, "Fundamentals of Software Engineering" https://www.danvega.dev/books/fundamentals-of-software-engineering

Spring community legend and friend Simon Martinelli 27.11.2025 44:43

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving from me, and I am sure the entire Spring team, to you! We are, it should be clear, oh so very grateful.. thankful.. for you, the community. This week it is my great pleasure to chat with Spring community legend Simon Martinelli.

The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that’s new and nice in Spring Framework 7 20.11.2025 1:01:33

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits at start.spring.io! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the legendary Sébastien Deleuze!

The legendary Bruce Eckel on language design, effects, abstraction, concurrency, and so much more 14.11.2025 2:13:08

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.

The Vaadin team, live from Vaadin Create 2025 06.11.2025 58:44

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.

Elastic’s developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging 30.10.2025 53:15

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

Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more 23.10.2025 1:16:07

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

Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger 16.10.2025 31:50

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

Spring Security contributor Josh Cummings on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Security 7 09.10.2025 57:56

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

Dr. Kris De Volder on developer tooling for Spring developers 02.10.2025 44:36

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

Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine 25.09.2025 39:05

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.

Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb 18.09.2025 39:29

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!

Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom 11.09.2025 14:14

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!

Spring Cloud guru Ryan Baxter 04.09.2025 35:46

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

JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what’s new in version 8 28.08.2025 24:06

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/

Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA 21.08.2025 36:43

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!

Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm 14.08.2025 50:11

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!

Andrew Lombardi, Beginning Spring AI co-author, and friend of the show 07.08.2025 26:46

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

Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7.0, SpringOne 2025, and more 31.07.2025 44:07

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 ?)