Groovy Podcast

Groovy Podcast

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Groovy Podcast episodes

  • Groovy Podcast, Oct 14, 2026 from Community Over Code

    The Groovy Podcast returns, live from Community over Code 2026 in Glasgow. Ken Kousen sits down with Paul King to cover what's new in Apache Groovy 6, including the "seven pillars" from Guillaume Laforge's Groovy 6 showcase: language ergonomics, async/await, the GPars-inspired concurrency toolkit, design by contract for AI-generated code, performance and GraalVM native images, the new Markdown and HttpBuilder modules, and compiler improvements like reification and short error messages. Then Søren Berg Glasius from the Grails PMC joins to talk about Grails 8, the plugin ecosystem, and the roadmap to Grails 9 and Groovy 7.

    Chapters

    00:00 Welcome back to the Groovy Podcast
    00:17 Live from Community over Code, Glasgow
    01:59 Groovy Day recap
    03:02 Groovy 6 and the AI focus
    05:08 The seven pillars of Groovy 6
    07:24 Async/await, concurrency, and GPars
    09:49 Design by contract for AI-generated code
    14:49 Performance and GraalVM native image
    16:46 New builders: Markdown, CSV, and HttpBuilder
    19:36 Compiler improvements and reification
    22:02 Groovy on the newest JDKs
    22:58 Paul's Groovy and AI talk
    25:45 Ken's Groovy AI client talk
    26:49 The Quest for the Holy Grails, updated for Grails 8
    28:58 Spock, Geb, Groovy Verify, and Jupyter
    30:58 Søren Berg Glasius joins: Grails and GrailsConf
    32:48 Tour de Plugin highlights
    34:39 Grails 8 under the hood
    37:15 Grails 8 new features
    40:38 Roadmap: Grails 9 and Groovy 7
    42:50 Groovy and Grails at the ASF
    45:16 Wrap-up and links

    Links

    Groovy 6 showcase by Guillaume Laforge: https://glaforge.dev/groovy6showcase/
    Apache Groovy: https://groovy.apache.org/
    Groovy blog: https://groovy.apache.org/blog/
    Apache Grails: https://grails.apache.org/
    Grails Forge: https://start.grails.org/
    Holy Grails 8 tutorial (slides and code): https://github.com/kousen/holygrails8
    Claude Code: Up and Running (O'Reilly): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/claude-code-up/
    Tales from the jar side newsletter and YouTube channel: https://kenkousen.substack.com/

    Guests

    Paul King, Distinguished Engineer at Object Computing and Apache Groovy PMC
    Søren Berg Glasius, Apache Grails PMC

    Hosted by Ken Kousen

    51 min
  • Groovy Podcast Ep. 89 (S07E01)

    News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, with Ken Kousen, Graeme Rocher, and Jen Weise. Discusses the history of the Grails and Micronaut frameworks, running on the GraalVM virtual machine, minimum Java versions, new technical capabilities, the work of the Grails and Micronaut Foundations, and more.

    Show notes: https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-89.asciidoc

    1 hr 8 min
  • Groovy Podcast, Episode 88 (S06E03)

    Groovy Podcast, Episode 88 (S06E03), from ApacheCon in New Orleans, LA. Ken Kousen, Paul King, Zach Klein, and Puneet Behl talk about the Groovy / Grails / Micronaut talks at the Apache Software Foundation's open source conference, October 2022.

    39 min
  • Groovy Podcast episode 85 (S05E05) with Sergio del Amo and Guillaume Laforge
    News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, hosted by Ken Kousen, Sergio del Amo, and Guillaume Laforge. We talked about the new Micronaut AOT module (7ms startup time!), the latest Grails 5.1 release, dealing with the log4J CVE problems, and a tribute to Stéphane Maldini, who left us all too soon.
     
    Show notes are at:
    https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-85.asciidoc
    52 min
  • Groovy Podcast, S05E03, with Paul King

    News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, with Paul King, the head of the Groovy project! Topics include the upcoming Groovy 4 release, the IDE situation for Groovy, the recent Grails 5 release, the recent ApacheCon at Home conference, and more.

     

    Show notes at https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-83.asciidoc 

    1 hr 12 min
  • Groovy Podcast S05E02, (82, with Sergio del Amo)

    News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, with Ken Kousen and Sergio del Amo. There is no part 1, despite how this starts; the podcast is self-contained. Part 1 was bad attempt to use YouTube Live.

     

    Show notes are at: https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-82.asciidoc 

    1 hr 4 min

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A podcast dedicated to the Groovy programming language and its ecosystem