The Stackd Podcast, hosted by Kito D. Mann, Ian Hlavats, Daniel Hinojosa and Josh Juneau is a monthly podcast that covers the latest headlines, trends, and technologies in the world of enterprise software development.
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Overview Kito, Daniel, and Ian are joined by #JavaChampions and OmniFish co-founders Arjan Tijms and Ondro Mihalyi for an insightful conversation on #JakartaEE, enterprise #Java, open source collaboration, and the future of specifications. Along the way they discuss #Oracle layoffs, #AI, #MCP, #OmniHai, #Quarkus, #WildFly, #Spring, #AngularSignals, and the trends enterprise developers should be watching. […]
Overview The whole gang is back with special guest magician, software architect, and YouTuber Michael Carducci! They have an extensive, lively discussion about #IBM buying #Confluent, the job market, #agent #skills, #JakartaEE 12, #omnihai, #openrouter, #gastown, #java 26, #kotlin 2.3, #Oracle Database 26a. Then it gets realy interesting as they dive into Michael’s background as […]
🔥 Episode Overview Kito, Danno, and Josh kick off 2026 with a post‑holiday catch‑up—diet discipline vs. cookie overload, hosting chaos, and a one‑day “nightmare” illness—before diving into the latest enterprise Java and AI news. They explore the Jakarta EE 12 release plan, what’s really coming in Java 25 (including why “LTS doesn’t mean what you […]
Overview After a long hiatus, Kito, Josh, and Ian are back! They catch up and discuss the current state of software development given recent layoffs and #AI software development tools. They discuss #JakartaEE 11, #Java AI agents with #embabel, #Spring AI, #JetBrains #Junie, #ClaudeCode, and more. News Java Tools AI Picks Other Pubhouse Network podcasts […]
📅 Recorded: April 11, 2025 In this lively episode, Josh, Danno, and Kito are joined by Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. From Java to AI, clean energy, WebAssembly, and even crime prediction tech — it’s a wild, nerdy ride! 🔥 Topics Covered: AI struggles with debugging – Microsoft’s recent study Clean energy now […]
Overview Kito, Danno, and Ian start out the new year with special guest Web Assembly, Semantic Web, and AI guru Brian Sletten. They have a deep, wide-ranging conversation about Web Assembly, LLMs, edge computing, and open-source hardware, and their potential to reduce compute costs. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to artificial […]
Overview Josh, Kito, and Danno are joined by special guest Nilanjan Raychaudhuri, founder of Tublian and author of Scala in Action.They discuss the retirement of James Gosling, Jakarta EE 12, software development agents, TabNine, LangGraph for Java,...
📅 Recorded Date: August 30, 2024 🎙️ Overview: For the first time in a while, the whole gang is back together! Kito, Josh, Danno, and Ian are joined by special guest Lenny Primak, a pilot and prolific open-source contributor. In this...
Recorded Date: 31 May 2024 Title: Blow your Brains Out Overview Josh, Kito, and Danno are joined by fellow Java Champion , the maintainer of JReleaser and a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle. They discuss new updates to JReleaser,...
Overview Kito and Danno welcome Edwin Derks, a fellow Java Champion, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE contributor, and Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, as their special guest. They delve into the new Jakarta Data specification, explore the...
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, AI...
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...
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 Server...
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 in her free time. Blog:...
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 (AI...
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 for...
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...
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...
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, Spring...
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 starts...
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 more. ...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
