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The Marco Show

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Java
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Bytebuddy
Spring Boot
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Spring Framework
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Software Performance
Cglib
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
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Jobrunr
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Google
Game Development
Object-Relational Mapping

The Marco Show is a bi-weekly podcast about AI, coding, and developer tools — hosted by Marco Behler, Developer Advocate for Java at JetBrains. Before JetBrains, Marco ran a consultancy in Munich, working with clients like BMW, Wirecard, and KVB, and built software at BWSO (now tresmo). He’s also a Java and Spring trainer, conference speaker, and writer of guides, courses, and videos. Each episode... more

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Sébastien Deleuze, a longtime Spring Framework committer and member of the Spring AI team, joins Marco to talk about how 13 years on the Spring team shaped his pragmatic approach to software development. The conversation covers how Spring AI fits int... more

Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, joins Marco to cover 25 years of Spring history and what the JVM's real shot at the AI era actually looks like. Josh has published a weekly blog since 2011 and a weekly podcast since 2018 without miss... more

Martin Lippert, longtime maintainer of Spring Tools and one of the people who has witnessed developer tooling evolve from Eclipse to VS Code, joins Marco to discuss how AI is transforming Java development, and what that means for the future of softwa... more

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala and co-designer of Java generics, joins Marco to trace the full arc from Pizza (the 1996 functional Java experiment) to Scala 3, and on to his vision for capabilities as a safety mechanism for AI-generated code. They ... more

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Josh Long
Engineer on the Spring team, Developer Advocate
Spring Team
Episode: Why AI Won't Replace Great Java Developers - Josh Long | The Marco Show
Martin Odersky
Creator of the Scala language and EPFL professor
EPFL / Scala
Episode: Why Scala Changed Programming Languages Forever - Martin Odersky | The Marco Show
Mohamed Aboullaite
Backend engineer at Spotify, Java specialist
Spotify
Episode: Java at Spotify: Microservices, MCP & AI Overload – Mohamed Aboullaite | The Marco Show
James Ward
Developer Advocate at AWS; Technical Steering Committee member for the Agentic AI Foundation
Amazon Web Services
Episode: The Future of Java in the Age of AI Agents - James Ward | The Marco Show
Andres Almiray
Open source developer with two decades of experience; contributor to JVM ecosystem
Common House Foundation (founding member project JReleaser)
Episode: The Ugly Truth About Open Source - Andres Almiray | The Marco Show
Moritz Halbritter
Team lead for start.spring.io; Spring Boot team member
Spring (Broadcom/Spring ecosystem)
Episode: How Spring Boot Really Works (From a Core Engineer) - Moritz Halbritter | The Marco Show
Ronald Dehuysser
Senior.NET architect turned founder of JobRunr
JobRunr (Founder)
Episode: JobRunr: Java Job Scheduling, OSS Monetization, $17K Deals – Ronald Dehuysser
Casey Muratori
Expert on performance-oriented software and game development
Episode: Software Performance: Avoiding Slow Code, Myths & Sane Approaches – Casey Muratori | The Marco Show

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Marco Behler
Host of The Marco Show; Developer Advocate for Java at JetBrains. Active participant in the Java/Spring ecosystem with long-standing industry involvement.

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Apple Podcasts
#158
Germany/Technology
Apple Podcasts
#31
Mexico/Technology
Apple Podcasts
#129
Belgium/Technology
Apple Podcasts
#144
Netherlands/Technology
Apple Podcasts
#153
Singapore/Technology

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Why AI Won't Replace Great Java Developers - Josh Long | The Marco Show
Q: Who are you?
Josh Long introduces himself as a Spring developer advocate who has worked across multiple Spring projects and became involved with the Spring team around 2010, after contributing patches and authoring Spring-related books.
Java Performance Myths: JIT vs AOT, GraalVM, Performance Engineering – Thomas Wuerthinger
Q: What have you learned from the One Billion Row Challenge?
Cooperative problem-solving and optimization strategies were crucial to adapting solutions and understanding performance impacts.
Java Performance Myths: JIT vs AOT, GraalVM, Performance Engineering – Thomas Wuerthinger
Q: How did it all start? Where did the original idea come from?
The original ideas around GraalVM were explored as part of Sun Microsystems Laboratories, focusing on developing a metacircular VM for Java.
From Google to Indie Dev: Mac Apps, Subscriptions, AI Coding – Daniel Gräfe
Q: What advice would you give someone wanting to leave corporate life to start their own software business?
Focus on validating customer needs before starting development. Do market research and ensure there's a demand for your product.
Season Finale: Giveaway Winners & Q&A with Marco
Q: What do you want to focus on more next year?
I want to bring The Marco Show to the next level, including a US field trip and interviews with notable people.

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A bi-weekly deep-dive into AI, coding, and developer tooling, featuring conversations with builders and practitioners across the Java ecosystem and beyond. Episodes center on real-world engineering challenges, language design decisions, and the practical implications of AI-enabled development, cloud-native tooling, open source governance, and modern tooling like MCP, Spring, GraalVM, and JVM ecosystems. The format blends technical explanations with candid career and community anecdotes, offering actionable takeaways for developers, engineers, and tech leaders who want to go deeper than surface-level buzz. A standout aspect is the guest diversity, spanning language authors, OSS maintainers, tool creators, and platform engineers, all brought ... more

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2. Martin Odersky
3. Mohamed Aboullaite
4. James Ward
5. Andres Almiray
6. Moritz Halbritter
7. Ronald Dehuysser
8. Casey Muratori

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