A Bootiful Podcast

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.

Episodes

JRuby lead Charles Nutter

August 20, 2026 • 58 mins
In this episode, we sit down with the lead of the JRuby project for a fascinating look at how Ruby and the JVM came together, how JRuby became a production-ready powerhouse, and why it still matters today. We dig into threading, performance, Invoke Dynamic, Project Loom, Panama, Valhalla, and the future of dynamic languages on the JVM. If you care about Ruby, Java, open source, or building faster, more scalable systems, you’l...
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Redouble AI CTO Andrey Santrosyan on the pitfalls of agentic systems in the enterprise

August 13, 2026 • 56 mins
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, my friend James Ward and I sat down with Redouble AI CTO and founder Andrey Santrosyan This was an extra special episode because I conducted the interview with my friend, AWS' James Ward. * https://www.linkedin.com/in/santrosyan/ * https://redouble.ai
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Data guru Gregory Green on RabbitMQ, Valkey, Gemfire, Data Flow, and more

August 6, 2026 • 66 mins
Hi, Spring and data fans! Want a faster, smarter data stack? Tune into this episode with Gregory Green for a deep dive into GemFire, RabbitMQ Streams, Dataflow, and more. We cover real-time event processing, active-active consistency, full-text search, vector search, and how to build resilient, scalable systems with less complexity. Don’t miss it.
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Spring Boot founder and lead Phil Webb

July 30, 2026 • 59 mins
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot cofounder Phil Webb who joins the show to unpack the latest Spring Boot 4.1 release, from the long-awaited Spring gRPC support and MongoDB batch starter to security, observability, service connections, and other polished improvements.
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Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on Java 27

July 23, 2026 • 51 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I am thrilled to have the chance to sit down with Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando to talk about the amazing features in the upcoming Java 27! We recorded this a day before I flew to San Francisco to attend the world premiere of the Java documentary, so as you can imagine, I've got goosebumps. To talk about what the language is bringing in the future and have this deep and amazing document...
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Russ Miles!

July 16, 2026 • 22 mins
I'm joined, I think, for the second time by my friend, the legendary architect and developer extraordinaire Russ Miles, who has given some of the most cerebral and exciting Spring keynotes and talks ever. And this time, he's back to talk about — guess what — A.I. As usual, he's got a different and very interesting angle on the whole thing in this short-but-sweet episode. Recorded at UberConf 2026 in Westminster, Colorad...
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Spring Boot legend Moritz Halbritter on the latest and greatest in Spring Boot 4 and 4.1

July 9, 2026 • 62 mins
Hi Spring fans! Spring Boot 4.1 is here and with it a ton of amazing features. I'm delighted to have had the opportunity to sit down with Moritz Halbritter, of Spring Boot and Spring Initializr fame, to talk about some of the amazing features.
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Sébastien Deleuze on the latest-and-greatest in Spring AI and Spring Framework

July 1, 2026 • 66 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Spring AI and Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze about the latest-and-greatest in AI, Kotlin, the framework, and more.
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My friend Francesco Ciulla on developer advocacy and more

June 25, 2026 • 42 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to my friend Francesco Ciulla about the art of developer advocacy and more. Francesco Ciulla is the Head of DevRel Engineering at zerops.io.
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DaShaun Carter on patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI

June 18, 2026 • 53 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege to sit down with my friend DaShaun Carter to talk about patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI.
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Spring Security lead Rob Winch answers some security questions for me

June 11, 2026 • 58 mins
Hi Spring and security fans! I got the legendary Spring Security lead Rob Winch to answers some of my burning security questions for us! Also: make sure you're downloading all the updates for the new Spring releases this week, the week of June 11th, 2026! (or later)
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Marit van Dijk

June 4, 2026 • 29 mins
hi Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! In this installment I talk to my friend and JetBrains Developer Advocate extraordinaire Marit van Dijk! This episode was recorded at JNation, an amazing show in Coimbra, Portugal!
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Microsoft’s Martijn Verburg

May 28, 2026 • 19 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment I talk to my friend, of JClarity and Microsoft fame, fellow Java champion and Java guru Martijn Verburg
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Hadi Hariri, Jetbrains legend

May 21, 2026 • 36 mins

Hi Spring and Kotlin fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to my old friend and Jetbrains legend Hadi Hariri, recorded live from Kotlin Conf 2026 in Munich, Germany! #kotlin #jvm #java #springboot

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the legendary Adib Saikali on AI, the power of the platform, and more

May 14, 2026 • 23 mins
Hi, Spring fans! I'm so thrilled to have been able to sit down and talk to my friend Adib Saikali!
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Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on his new book ”Testing Spring Boot Applications”

May 7, 2026 • 23 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Daniel Garnier-Moiroux and talk about "Testing Spring Boot Applications," from Manning! #testing #springboot #java #kotlin #springframework
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Ronald Dehuysser, founder of JobRunr, on their ambitious new ”ClawRunr”-like agent runtime

April 30, 2026 • 20 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser about the latest and greatest, and their new "ClawRunr" project!
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Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward on Intelligent Kotlin

April 23, 2026 • 18 mins
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talked with the legendary Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward, with whom I had the privilege of doing a presentation at Voxxed Days Amsterdam. This was filmed right before the three of us took the stage!
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the legendary Craig Walls

April 16, 2026 • 50 mins
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Craig Walls, author of _Spring In Action_, _Spring AI in Action_, and more!
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Mark Kropf on AI orchestration

April 9, 2026 • 30 mins
Hi Spring fans! I was delighted to get a chance to sit and talk to my pal and Pivotal alum Mark Kropf about his efforts around orchestrating AI. This doesn’t have to do with the JVM or Spring, per se, but it’s an interesting discussion nonetheless.
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