Overview Kito, Josh, Danno are joined by microservices guru, author, and Java Champion Chris Richardson. They discuss spring-boot-testjars, Jakarta EE 11, OpenRewrite, Chris’ Eventuate project, microservice architecture patterns, Kafka, Repanda

Stackd 70: Natural Born Advocate

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 19m

Kito Mann, Josh Juneau and special guest Grace Jansen, Java Champion and Advisory Developer Advocate at IBM, chat about Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMWare, Jakarta EE 11 and the revamped Jakarta EE tutorial, Lit 3.0, JoinFaces, Liberty Tools for

Stackd 69: Tales from Ken’s Side

Jan 30th, 2024 1h 58m

Kito, Josh, and Danno are joined byJava Champion, trainer, NFJS speaker and book author Ken Kousen. They discuss Broadcom’s Pivotal acquisition, layoffs, AI regulation, Kotlin Multi-platform Mobile, Structured Concurrency, Angular 17, Next.js S

Stackd 68: Interview with Jeanne Boyarsky

Nov 16th, 2023 1h 38m

Kito, Josh and Danno have a great discussion with Jeanne Boyarski and cover a few headlines. Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java Champion and has grown from an entry developer to a tech lead. She also volunteers at Coderanch in her free time. Blog: http

Stackd 67: AI NullPointers

Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 51m

Danno and Kito are back for an engaging chat with two Java Champions, who are co-authors of the Visual Recognition Machine Learning API for Java (JSR #318): Frank Grecko (consultant, enterprise architect, NYJavaSIG chairman), and Zoran Sevarac

Stackd 66: Streams, Messages, Events, and a Java User Group

Aug 11th, 2023 2h 1m

Ian, Kito, and Josh are joined by Java Champion, Streaming Developer Advocate at DataStax, and President of Chicago-JUG, Mary Grygleski. They discuss news about Capacitor, Angular, PrimeNG Designer for Tailwind, JetBraiins Compose Multiplatform

Stackd 65: Devnexus, indeed

May 21st, 2023 1h 51m

Danno, Josh and Kito recap the always-amazing Devnexus and a discuss a wide-range of topics, including TypeScript 5, RIFE2, Hilla, OpenJFX, Adobe buying Figma, Quarkus, JakartaEE 11, AWS Application Composer, Rust, Java 20, SBOMs, Kotlin, and m

Stackd 64: Beware of the Blue Drink

Mar 27th, 2023 1h 53m

Recorded Date 2/24/2023 Overview Ian, Kito, and Josh are joined by old friends and industry veterans Ed Burns and Reza Rahman, who both work at Microsoft on providing world-class support for Java on #Azure. They reminisce about the old days of

Stackd 63: One CLI to Rule them All

Feb 16th, 2023 1h 41m

We’re back for 2023 with Kito, Danno, and special guest Andres Almiray, Senior Principal Product Manager, Database group, to talk about the latest versions of Andres’ JReleaser tool, building CLIs in Java (picocli, JCommander, JCommander, Sprin

Stackd 62: Make JavaOne Again

Jan 22nd, 2023 1h 42m

Overview Josh, Kito, Danno, and Ian are back, discussing the first JavaOne in many years, and welcoming special guest Emily Jiang, Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate at IBM. They discuss JavaOne announcements, ways to avoid cold

Stackd 61: May the Source be with You

Nov 8th, 2022 1h 22m

Overview Josh, Danno and Kito have a lively discussion about their summer activities, Lightbend (makers of Akka) changing to closed source, GraalVM and AWS Lambdas, Quarkus, Jakarta EE 10, JDK 19, NetBeans, Kito’s new SpeakerTrax product, and m

Stackd 60: No Code for You

Sep 21st, 2022 2h 10m

Max Katz, veteran developer advocate at Okta, joins the whole gang (Josh Juneau, Ian Hlavats, Daniel Hinojosa and Kito Mann) for a wide-ranging discussion about the good ol’ days of Exadel, RichFaces, and JSF, as well as No Code and Low Code so

Stackd 59: Holly Cummins, Quarkus, IBM, and the Garage

Jul 18th, 2022 1h 50m

Kito, Danno, and Josh welcome special guest Holly Cummins, Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Quarkus team at Red Hat and fellow Java Champion, to talk about Quarkus, working at IBM and Red Hat, Kotlin, ktor, contract testing, JHipster,

Stackd 58: Raible Rambles about Life, JHipster, Okta, and more

May 17th, 2022 1h 44m

Danno, Kito, Ian and Josh talk with fellow Java Champion and industry veteran Matt Raible about the good ol’ days of his blog Raible Designs, Java web frameworks, and AppFuse, as well as JHipster, Spring4Shell, Okta, Capacitor, KubeSeal, MicroF

Stackd 57: BDD Deep Dive!

Apr 18th, 2022 1h 54m

Seb Rose and Gaspar Nagy join our hosts Kito Mann, Daniel Hinojosa, Ian Hlavats, and Josh Juneau to dive into behavior-driven testing (BDD). They discuss Seb and Gaspar’s BDD books, as well as Cucumber, SpecFlow, Gherkin, the practical testing

Stackd 56: Andres Almiray and JReleaser FTW!

Mar 14th, 2022 1h 32m

Danno, Kito, and Josh join special guest and fellow Java Champion Andres Almiray to discuss Microprofile, Quarkus, GraalVM, Reload4J, JBang, jib, TOML, and dive deep into JReleaser! *UI / Web* MP 5.0 https://microprofile.io/2021/12/07/microprof

Stackd 55: Welcome 2022! JChampionsConf, Log4Shell, Angular 13, JakartaEE 10 and more!

Feb 25th, 2022 1h 34m

Overview Ian, Kito, Danno and Josh kick off their first episode of the year with a lively discussion about sessions from jChampionsConf, Angular 13, JakartaEE 10, GraalVM, Cypress.io, AI coding assistants, Log4Shell, and more! jChampions Conf

Stackd 54: All things Akka

Jan 2nd, 2022 1h 34m

*Overview* Kito, Danno, and Josh join special guest Francisco López-Sancho (author of Akka in Action) to discuss all things Akka, as well as Scala 3, JetBrains Fleet, Vaadin, MicroProfile 5, Heiledon, M1 MacBook Pros, and more. *UI / Web* Vaad

Stackd 53. An interview with Richard Fichtner

Nov 11th, 2021 1h 50m

Recorded Date 10/23/2021 Title: In this episode, Kito, Ian, Danno and Josh welcome special guest Richard Fichtner, Founder JUG Oberpfalz, CEO of XDev, and one of the organizers of JCON. They discuss #lowcode, running a conference, being CEO, #m

Stackd 52. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

Oct 5th, 2021 1h 40m

Title: Software Architecture: The Hard Parts Description In this episode, Kito, Ian, and Daniel welcome two distinguished guests: Neal Ford (Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWork) and Mark Richards (Independent Hands-on

COVID as the new normal (and new releases)

Sep 24th, 2021 1h 21m

Recorded Date 9/3/2021 Description Another great episode with the entire band -- Kito, Daniel, Ian, and Josh. They discuss COVID as the new normal, NetBeans, Kotlin, IntelliJ, PrimeBlocks, Java 17 (including Spring’s announcement), Docker requi

Stackd 50. We're baaack!

Aug 3rd, 2021 1h 27m

Recorded Date 7/23/2021 Description The gang is back for another jam-packed episode! Josh, Kito, Daniel, and Ian catch up and discuss the past year, COVID vaccines as software updates, AI coding tools, JDK 17, Jakarta EE 9.1, PrimeNG, Angular,

Stack 49

Oct 5th, 2020 1h 19m

Recorded Date 8/28/2020 Description The gang is back for another jam-packed episode! Josh, Kito, Daniel, and Ian catch up with a quick chat about Zoom fatigue and virtual school, and then dive into news about TypeScript, say goodbye to IE 11, a

Stackd 48. BlackLivesMatter + Releases abound!

Aug 12th, 2020 1h 43m

On this episode we dive into the Black Lives Matter topic, and see how it affects tech, from racial bias, to terminology. We take a time to discuss and see how technology can hinder (or help) our problems. We also see what's new in the UI and S

Stackd 47. With Special Guest Cagatay Civici!

Jul 8th, 2020 1h 51m

We took the time to (virtually) ask Cagatay to join us and talk about COVID Dashboard, Deep Netts platform, and the news that GitHub Acquired NPM! We also take the time to explore some of the Open Source COVID-19 efforts / dashboards and data,