#112
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planning and domain-driven orchestration.
#103
Stephan Janssen is always on the bleeding edge of both helping developers grow and with how he uses technology to accomplish amazing things. He led the creation of Devoxx but is a coder at heart. Stephan shares his journey with AI, both as a "library" in his applications and also
#102
We chat with Venkat about his upcoming dev2next conference and the new Stream Gatherers API (preview in JDK 22).
#92
We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels. Referenced articles & code Ox EasyRacer Client Go statement considered harmful Go-like selects using jox channels in Java Limits of Loom's pe
#88
Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state. Referenced resources SpringOne Talk Arty's Idea Flow Book FlowInsight
#79
We chat with Oliver Drotbohm about what Domain-Driven Design is and how it might intersect with Microservices, Monoliths, or Moduliths. Mentioned resources Parnas on modularity Chris Richardson – Introducing Assemblage - a microservice architecture definition process Spring Modul
#77
Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus.
#72
The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive and happier. We chat with a co-creator of Pants, Benjy Weinberger, about the history, motivations, and future of the build tool.
#66
No doubt that Rust is hot right now. We chat with Christopher Hunt about his journey through Java, Scala, and many other languages and learn why he is now using Rust.
#65
Rod Johnson (creator of Spring Framework) reflects on his programming and chess journeys. References ScalaDays 2013 Talk Stockfish Chess Engine
#52
A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band.
#46
We dive deep on GraalVM and learn from Alina Yurenko about all the problems it solves.
#23
James shares about a blog he posted this week titled: "The Modern Java Platform - 2021 Edition"
#17
Bruce and James have struggled with Gradle for years and Bruce this week blogged about some of his gripes: The Problem with Gradle. This prompted a lengthy response from Cédric Champeau. James has mostly stuck to Java 8 and Bruce is exploring Java 11. Finally, James rants about S
#15
Bruce shares exciting news about completing the Atomic Kotlin book. The rest is a mishmash of topics related to newsworthy announcements including Spring Boot Cloud Event support, Serverless + TestContainer + Kubernetes Cassandra support, and Scala ZIO CLI.
#12
Python usage surpasses Java to second place on the Tiobe Index (behind C). Is developer productivity the primary driver? We then switch gears to talk about the concept of "Making Illegal States Unrepresentable" where James continues his crusade against the Builder Pattern.
#8
Long-time Java author & expert, Cedric Beust, joins us to revisit some of the topics from our Kotlin episodes. We talk more deeply about checked exceptions, null safety, the builder pattern, build systems, and of-course Monads.