The Developers' Bakery

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we explore Astro, the modern web framework, with Elian Van Cutsem, one of its maintainers. Elian will walk us through Astro’s content-first approach, how it compares to other web frameworks, and its support for server-side/hybrid rendering.

We also dive into Astro’s governance model and the challenges of maintaining an open-source project at this scale. Elian will also share his insights on the latest Astro 5 release and what’s next for the project.

Finally, we chat about FOSDEM! We’ll share some of our personal anecdotes from the conference which just happened in Brussels, so you don’t want to miss this episode!

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Let’s kickoff 2025 with a fresh new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

Today, we talk about KotlinPoet with Egor Andreevich.

Egor has been involved with KotlinPoet for multiple years and today will share with us how KotlinPoet works,

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We’re back with another episode about developer tools! Today, we’re diving into Daytona 🚀, a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.

I’m thrilled to have on stage Ivan Burazin, CEO and co-founder of Daytona, to tell us more about this project.

Do you recall how much time it takes you to have your development environment ready? Think about how many hours you spend setting up your machine, installing dependencies, and configuring your IDE. Daytona aims to solve exactly this problem by providing a development environment that can get you up to speed in seconds!

In addition, Ivan will walk us through the story of Daytona: how it started and what’s next for this tool.

Ivan also has a lot of experience in conference organization. In this episode, we’ll touch on what he learned from creating tech conferences and how that skills helped him build Daytona today.

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Today we’re going to talk about Excalidraw 🎨, a web tool to sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn style.

I’m glad to have on stage Aakansha Doshi, one of the maintainer of Excalidraw, to tell us more about this project.

We’ll also talk about the community around Excalidraw, and Aakansha will share some tips on how to start contributing to your first open-source project.

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It’s time for another special episode, 90!

Together with our own Nicola, we’re diving into the world of Chucker, an open-source library that helps you debug network requests in Android.

With Chucker you can simply inspect the HTTP and GraphQL requests and responses, visualize the body such as JSON or images, and even export them to share with your team.

Nicola will tell us the story of how this library was born, how it evolved over time, and how you can use it in your projects.

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We’re back with another episode about developer tooling and this time we’re diving into the world of Language Servers!

We have the pleasure to have on stage Gorkem Ercan, the CTO of Jozu and member of the Eclipse Foundation Board. Gorkem will walk us through his journey in the world of Language Servers, from writing Visual Studio Code plugins to building both the Java and the YAML Language Server.

We’ll also talk a lot about Eclipse IDE, the Eclipse Foundation, and we’ll touch also on his new project: Kitops.

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It’s time to spotlight another amazing Android library in this episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today, I’m joined by Himanshu Singh, author and maintainer of Charty.

Charty is a chart library entirely written for Jetpack Compose. In this episode, Himanshu will walk us through the complexities of building custom UI libraries and his passion for open-source.

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We keep on exploring the world of data with another amazing guest: Christina Lin, Developer Advocate at RedPanda.

RedPanda is a data streaming platform, entirely built with C++ that aims to be faster and more efficient than Kafka. In this episode, Christina tells us all about RedPanda, its features, and how it’s different from other streaming platforms.

Christina also shares her journey into Developer Advocacy, and share some of her tips to create engaging content for developers.

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Today is time to talk about Data Pipelines and Data Engineering. I’m really excited to have on stage Sandy Ryza, Lead Engineer of Dagster.

If you’re a software engineer and you’re afraid of dealing with data pipelines, fear no more! Sandy is on a mission to make data pipelines easier to handle for software engineers. Join us in this episode to learn more about Dagster, and how it can make it easier for you to build and manage your data assets.

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Welcome to a special in-person episode of The Developers’ Bakery, recorded live in Berlin at Google I/O Connect 2024!

There, I had the privilege of having on stage Marcello Galhardo, Software Engineer at Google. Marcello is working in the AndroidX team responsible for adding Kotlin Multiplatform support for several popular AndroidX libraries.

If you’re an Android Developer, you probably used one of those libraries in your projects, such as Lifecycle or Room. Marcello is going to walk us through the latest announcements about Kotlin Multiplatform at Google I/O, and how they’re going to impact the way we build Android apps.

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