A Bootiful Podcast

Daniel Garnier-Moiroux, engineer and Spring/Security contributor who builds MCP security tooling. He explains MCP and why LLMs calling external tools need strong identity and auth. They cover prompt injection risks, OAuth vs API keys, token-binding strategies, and how Spring is hardening MCP for enterprise use.

Cay Horstmann, longtime CS professor and author of Core Java, shares hands-on experiments with WebAssembly and why it is not yet production-ready. He talks Java 25 performance gains, Valhalla progress, virtual threads simplifying concurrency, and why Java remains strong for long-lived business systems. He also reflects on teaching choices and plans for an interactive, frequently updated book.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! #apachekafka #kafka

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Jennifer Reif, developer advocate at Neo4J, about graph RAG, graph databases, GraphQL, Neo4J, Spring Data Neo4J, and more. #neo4j #graphRag #AI #artificialintelligence

John Willis, DevOps veteran and author, blends tech history with organizational savvy. He walks through AI’s long arc from Aristotle to modern agents. They tackle developer roles as AI tools change workflows, publishing and narration choices, and how models favor certain languages. Short, lively, and wide-ranging conversation.

Glenn Renfro, Spring team engineer known for Spring Integration, Spring Batch and cloud projects. He chats about Spring AI, agent orchestration and ACP for automating CLIs. They cover Java and Spring performance, native images vs warmed JVMs, EIP patterns for AI workflows, new Spring Integration features like gRPC gateways, and why integrating AI into existing systems matters.

Richard Fichtner, who runs Java consultancy XDev and builds Java tooling like the music-maven-plugin, chats about his path from game tinkering to tooling. He shares stories about the music-maven-plugin, Spotify integration and prank uses. He also talks about running J-Con and creating Java educational software for Bavarian schools.

hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to Jetbrains legend Marco Behler

Billy Korando, Java Developer Advocate at Oracle, talks Java language features and the platform's future. Conversation covers Project Loom and virtual threads, Valhalla and value types, Project Panama for native interop, AI-related JVM work, release cadence and Spring support, and what to expect at Java 1. Short, sharp, and full of Java-forward energy.

Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!