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About this podcast
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 brings real conversations with tech people who actually build things: opposing opinions, hot takes, and useful insights for developers who want to go deeper.
New episodes every other Wednesday.
Episodes
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- Databases, AI Agents and Death by Tooling - Michael Simons | The Marco Show · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 5Michael Simons, a longtime Java developer and Neo4j engineer, joins Marco to talk about the engineering principles that have stayed relevant across decades of changing…
- 40 Years of Programming: What AI Changes and What It Never Will - Venkat Subramaniam | The Marco Show · 1 h 24 min · Season 3 Episode 4Venkat Subramaniam joins Marco to talk about what AI is really changing for developers. They discuss why AI often impresses novices more than experts, why “AI first” is the wrong…
- From Spring Framework to Spring AI: 13 Years of Building What Developers Need - Sébastien Deleuze | The Marco Show · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 3Sébastien 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…
- Why AI Won't Replace Great Java Developers - Josh Long | The Marco Show · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 2Josh 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…
- The End of Traditional IDEs?: AI Workflows, Cursor, IntelliJ - Martin Lippert | The Marco Show · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 1Martin 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…
- Why Scala Changed Programming Languages Forever - Martin Odersky | The Marco Show · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 9Martin 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…
- Java at Spotify: Microservices, MCP & AI Overload – Mohamed Aboullaite | The Marco Show · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 8Mohamed Aboullaite, backend engineer at Spotify, Java Champion, Google Cloud Developer Expert, and Docker Captain, joins Marco to talk about building AI-powered integrations at…
- The Future of Java in the Age of AI Agents - James Ward | The Marco Show · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 7James Ward (Developer Advocate at AWS, Agentic AI Foundation Technical Committee Member) joins Marco to map out the fast-moving landscape of AI agents on the JVM. From MCP and…
- The Ugly Truth About Open Source - Andres Almiray | The Marco Show · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 6Andres Almiray, Java Champion and creator of JReleaser, joins Marco to talk about the realities of open source, release automation, and the evolving Java ecosystem. They dive…
- How Spring Boot Really Works (From a Core Engineer) - Moritz Halbritter | The Marco Show · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 5Moritz Halbritter, Spring Boot engineer at Broadcom and team lead for start.spring.io (Spring Initializr), joins Marco to talk about the inner workings of the Spring ecosystem…
- JobRunr: Java Job Scheduling, OSS Monetization, $17K Deals – Ronald Dehuysser · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 4Ronald Dehuysser, creator of JobRunr, joins Marco to talk about distributed job scheduling in Java, building a high-throughput background processing framework, and turning an…
- Java Performance Myths: JIT vs AOT, GraalVM, Performance Engineering – Thomas Wuerthinger · 1 h 30 min · Season 2 Episode 3Episode description:Thomas Wuerthinger, Founder and Project Lead of GraalVM and Vice President at Oracle, joins Marco to unpack how modern Java runtimes actually work. They…
- From Google to Indie Dev: Mac Apps, Subscriptions, AI Coding – Daniel Gräfe · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 2Daniel Gräfe, founder of Timing and Cotypist, joins Marco to talk about the realities of indie software development after leaving Big Tech. They discuss turning side projects…
- Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger · 1 h 33 min · Season 2 Episode 1J. B. Rainsberger, TDD coach and software consultant, joins Marco to challenge common assumptions about software testing. They discuss why JB argues that “integrated tests are a…
- Season Finale: Giveaway Winners & Q&A with Marco · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 9The first season of The Marco Show has officially come to an end! In this Christmas special episode, we’re announcing all of our giveaway winners and wrapping up the season with…
- Modern Bytecode Instrumentation with ByteBuddy – Rafael Winterhalter · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 8Rafael Winterhalter, creator of ByteBuddy and long-time Java consultant, joins Marco to break down the hidden world of JVM bytecode instrumentation. They discuss how ByteBuddy…
- Scaling the Web: Lessons from Jetty, Bitronix, Terracotta, Quartz – Ludovic Orban · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 7Episode description: Ludovic Orban (Jetty Maintainer and Performance Engineer at WebTide) joins Marco to break down what “web scale” really means, why most systems don’t need…
- Growing Quarkus in a Spring Boot World – Kevin Dubois (IBM) · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 6Kevin Dubois (IBM Developer Advocate, Quarkus Team) joins Marco to explore how Quarkus is reinventing Java for the modern cloud era, and why it’s not about killing Spring Boot…
- Hibernate vs Spring Data vs jOOQ: Understanding Java Persistence | Thorben Janssen · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 5Thorben Janssen joins Marco to talk about the hidden power (and pain) of Java persistence frameworks. Hibernate, JPA, Spring Data, jOOQ: which one should you really use in 2025?…
- Flyway: From Open Source Side Project to Multimillion Exit – Axel Fontaine · 2 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 4Axel Fontaine, creator of Flyway, one of the most popular database migration tools, joins Marco to share how he built a global open source project, turned it into a profitable…
