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.

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Jeff Genender on Apache, ActiveMQ, AI, the Java community, and more

Jeff Genender on Apache, ActiveMQ, AI, the Java community, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by well-known member of the Java community Jeff Genender, whose contributions to Apache over the decades have driven several key projects with which you're no doubt familiar.

17 Apr 1h 10min

Wiremock’s Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst

Wiremock’s Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Wiremock's leaders Lee Turner and Tom Akehurst

10 Apr 1h 7min

AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward

AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward

hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to AWS Developer Advocate and industry legend James Ward about AWS Bedrock, Amazon Cohere, Spring AI, MCP, and so much more!

4 Apr 49min

My friend Anthony Dahanne on Buildpacks, Production, Docker images, and more

My friend Anthony Dahanne on Buildpacks, Production, Docker images, and more

Salut fans de Spring! In this installment I'm joined by the legendary Anthony Dahanne. If you've enjoyed success in production using Spring's built-in spring-boot:build-image capability, you've got today's guest Anthony to thank for it!

27 Mar 48min

Java Champion and legend Henri Tremblay

Java Champion and legend Henri Tremblay

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Henri Tremblay, head of TS Imagine Canada, Java Champion, Montreal JUG leader, EasyMock lead dev and all around legend!

20 Mar 1h 11min

Micrometer legend Jonatan Ivanov

Micrometer legend Jonatan Ivanov

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to one of the Willy Wonka's of observability, the amazing Jonatan Ivanov! This episode was recorded at ConFoo 2025.

13 Mar 1h 33min

Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer at SAP

Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer at SAP

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Johannes Bechberger, Java engineer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. His work today comprises many open-source contributions and his blog, where he regularly writes on in-depth profiling and debugging topics. He also works on hello-ebpf, the first eBPF library for Java.

7 Mar 32min

Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr Moritz legend Halbritter

28 Feb 1h 22min