A Bootiful Podcast

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh sits down with longtime friend and JetBrains developer Anton Arkhipov for a fascinating look at how AI is reshaping the way software gets built. From the halls of Devoxx to the future of IntelliJ IDEA, the conversation explores how AI has moved from being a novelty to becoming a core part of modern development workflows.Anton shares how JetBrains is...

Hi, Spring fans! What happens when a longtime Kotlin and JVM fan - my friend Andrew Lombardi - decides to take on the latest “rewrite everything in Rust” hype with AI in the driver’s seat? In this episode, Josh sits down with community legend Andrew Lombardi for a fast, funny, and deeply technical conversation about his wild experiment: porting a real application to Kotlin to see how it stacks up...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with one of the most influential engineers in modern Java history - Kohsuke Kawaguchi - for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts tech retrospective, career reflection, and future-gazing.It all starts with a chance reunion at a Java documentary screening in the Bay Area, where familiar faces from Sun and Oracle, old friends, and long-time...

Hi, Spring fans! What if the JVM could feel as frictionless as the modern dev tools people rave about on other platforms? In this wide-ranging, high-energy conversation, you’ll hear two longtime friends (Andres Almiray is a fellow Java champion and a legend) geek out over the future of desktop Java, the pain of Electron, the elegance of JavaFX, and the tools making it all easier to ship. The...

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I sit down with Michael Carducci - software architect, magician, and knowledge graph expert—for a high-energy conversation about the future of AI. Michael breaks down why semantic data and auditable, deterministic reasoning are becoming essential for building trustworthy AI systems that actually work in production. If you’re curious about what’s next beyond...

Hi, Spring fans! In this conversation, Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert joins us for a fascinating look at how developer tooling has evolved from Eclipse to VS Code and beyond. We dig into the architecture behind Spring Tools, language servers, MCP, and how the same ideas that once helped developers stay in flow are now helping AI coding agents understand Spring projects better. If you care about...

Hi, Spring fans! This week’s interview is a must-watch if you care about where Java is headed next. This week, I talk to Netflix's Paull Bakker! We dig into Netflix’s real-world playbook for scaling Java, cutting costs with newer JDKs, and replacing reactive complexity with virtual threads and structured concurrency. Plus, there’s a sneak peek at the exciting future of Java, from AI-powered...

Hi, Spring fans! I chat with BellSoft’s Catherine Edelweiss about using buildpacks and hardened images to ship Spring Boot apps with stronger security, cleaner defaults, and far less Dockerfile pain. #BellSoft #Docker #Java #JRE #SpringBoot

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I talk Spring Security’s Joe Grandja about Spring Authorization Server’s graduation into Spring Security 7, and the new security heavyweights DPoP and PAR.

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...