The Stackd Podcast

By Kito Mann, Daniel Hinojosa, and Ian Hlavats

What's The Stackd Podcast about?

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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The Stackd Podcast episodes:

04.02.2024
Stackd 71: Eventually Eventuate
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 and software development, the early days of cloud computing...
02.22.2024
Stackd 70: Natural Born Advocate
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 IntelliJ, JetBrains...
01.30.2024
Stackd 69: Tales from Ken’s Side
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 Actions, Mockito, LangChain4J, Semantic Kernel, AI tools,...
11.16.2023
Stackd 68: Interview with Jeanne Boyarsky
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 Coderanch in her free...
10.03.2023
Stackd 67: AI NullPointers
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 researcher, creator...
08.11.2023
Stackd 66: Streams, Messages, Events, and a Java User Group
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 iOS, JDK 21, AI developer tools,...
05.21.2023
Stackd 65: Devnexus, indeed
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 more. We Thank DataDog...
03.27.2023
Stackd 64: Beware of the Blue Drink
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...
02.16.2023
Stackd 63: One CLI to Rule them All
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 Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut), jban,,...
01.22.2023
Stackd 62: Make JavaOne Again
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 in...
11.08.2022
Stackd 61: May the Source be with You
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. We Thank...
09.21.2022
Stackd 60: No Code for You
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...
07.18.2022
Stackd 59: Holly Cummins, Quarkus, IBM, and the Garage
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, Broadcom...
05.17.2022
Stackd 58: Raible Rambles about Life, JHipster, Okta, and more
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, MicroFrontends, and...
04.18.2022
Stackd 57: BDD Deep Dive!
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 pyramid,...
03.14.2022
Stackd 56: Andres Almiray and JReleaser FTW!
Danno, Kito, and Josh join special guest and fellow Java Champion Andres Almiray to discuss Microprofile, Quarkus, GraalVM, Reload4J, JBang, jib, TOML, and dive deep into JReleaser! *UI / Web* MP 5.0 https://microprofile.io/2021/12/07/microprofile-5-0-release/ (Josh) *Server Side Java* Quarkus -...
02.25.2022
Stackd 55: Welcome 2022! JChampionsConf, Log4Shell, Angular 13, JakartaEE 10 and more!
Overview Ian, Kito, Danno and Josh kick off their first episode of the year with a lively discussion about sessions from jChampionsConf, Angular 13, JakartaEE 10, GraalVM, Cypress.io, AI coding assistants, Log4Shell, and more! jChampions Conf 2022 https://jchampionsconf.com/ YouTube...
01.02.2022
Stackd 54: All things Akka
*Overview* Kito, Danno, and Josh join special guest Francisco López-Sancho (author of Akka in Action) to discuss all things Akka, as well as Scala 3, JetBrains Fleet, Vaadin, MicroProfile 5, Heiledon, M1 MacBook Pros, and more. *UI / Web*...
11.11.2021
Stackd 53. An interview with Richard Fichtner
Recorded Date 10/23/2021 Title: In this episode, Kito, Ian, Danno and Josh welcome special guest Richard Fichtner, Founder JUG Oberpfalz, CEO of XDev, and one of the organizers of JCON. They discuss #lowcode, running a conference, being CEO, #microstream, #jooq,...
10.05.2021
Stackd 52. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Title: Software Architecture: The Hard Parts Description In this episode, Kito, Ian, and Daniel welcome two distinguished guests: Neal Ford (Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWork) and Mark Richards (Independent Hands-on Software Architect, Published Author). They discuss all...
09.24.2021
COVID as the new normal (and new releases)
Recorded Date 9/3/2021 Description Another great episode with the entire band -- Kito, Daniel, Ian, and Josh. They discuss COVID as the new normal, NetBeans, Kotlin, IntelliJ, PrimeBlocks, Java 17 (including Spring’s announcement), Docker requiring subscriptions, and other stuff, too....
08.03.2021
Stackd 50. We're baaack!
Recorded Date 7/23/2021 Description The gang is back for another jam-packed episode! Josh, Kito, Daniel, and Ian catch up and discuss the past year, COVID vaccines as software updates, AI coding tools, JDK 17, Jakarta EE 9.1, PrimeNG, Angular, and...
10.05.2020
Stack 49
Recorded Date 8/28/2020 Description The gang is back for another jam-packed episode! Josh, Kito, Daniel, and Ian catch up with a quick chat about Zoom fatigue and virtual school, and then dive into news about TypeScript, say goodbye to IE...
08.12.2020
Stackd 48. BlackLivesMatter + Releases abound!
On this episode we dive into the Black Lives Matter topic, and see how it affects tech, from racial bias, to terminology. We take a time to discuss and see how technology can hinder (or help) our problems. We also...
07.08.2020
Stackd 47. With Special Guest Cagatay Civici!
We took the time to (virtually) ask Cagatay to join us and talk about COVID Dashboard, Deep Netts platform, and the news that GitHub Acquired NPM! We also take the time to explore some of the Open Source COVID-19 efforts...
05.12.2020
Stackd 46. As we spend time coding! (since we are isolating)
Yep, the crowd have been catching up with their netflix shows, reading cool blogs, and keeping up to date in the Enterprise space! We dive a little into some of the COVID-19 OSS projects out there (for those who want...
03.30.2020
Stackd 45. In Isolation and Self-quarantine!
Oh my, staying in isolation is tough! But that didn't stop the crew of Stackd to record the latest news in the full-stack space! From UI (Angular 9 is released!), to JavaFX 14, and Micronaut 1.3, there has been a...
02.25.2020
Stackd 44. Angular, PrimeVue, State of JS, Quarkus and Jakarta EE
Another stuffed-to-the-gills episode on Stackd! Where Kito, Josh, Dan and Ian talk about the new happenings on the UI (Tons have been happening), and then an update on the Server side of things (With Dropwizard, Quarkus Final Release, and Jakarta...
01.23.2020
Stackd 43. Year end Review!
Kito, Josh, Danno, and Ian are at it again! Covering what's new in the Full-stack space, including a deep end discussion on Scrum, the interesting Front-end and Vendor Lock-in. An end-of-the-year episode not to be missed! Recorded Date Dec 6th,...
11.11.2019
Episode 42. On Primefaces, Jakarta EE, JDK 13, OracleCodeOne and a New Show Name
Primefaces is alive and kicking! now with PrimeTek UI Updates. Working with maps? then hear how Josh uses ArcGIS JS API. Jakarta EE 8 has been released, and it's compatible with your usual suspects (Payara, Wildfly, OpenLiberty, and Eclipse GlassFish)....
09.24.2019
Episode 41. on Java EE Guardians, Jakarta EE vs Microprofile, JDK 13, and JavaFX.
So first, a big Welcome for the "Enterprise Java Newscast" to joining the "Pub House Network", a series of podcast and content created by developers for developers. Everyone is happy about the partnership and we can expect Enterprise Java Newscast...
07.29.2019
Episode 40 - July 2019
We're back! In this episode, after over a year, Kito Mann returns with co-hosts Daniel Hinojsa, Ian Hlavats, and new co-host Josh Juneau. They discuss Oracle JDK licensing, PrimeFaces, lit-html, Angular, JavaFX, MicroProfile, and more. UI Tier PrimeFaces...
02.10.2018
Episode 39 - Jan 2018
In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss their key areas of focus for the New Year, as well as naming for EE4J and Java EE, plus Polymer, PrimeNG, Bootstrap, Arquillian, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Docker, Machine Learning, adoption of Agile...
01.08.2018
Episode 38 - Dec 2017
In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss microservices, MicroProfile, Java EE, Wildfly, ActiveMQ, KeyCloak, OpenShift, and Docker with special guest Steven Pousty, Head of Developer Advocacy for Red Hat. They also discuss Polymer with TypeScript, Angular 5, Getting Things...
11.22.2017
Episode 37 - Nov 2017
In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss all things Java, Java EE, and JavaOne with special guest JavaOne Rockstar and Java Guardian Reza Rahaman. They also discuss Microprofile, Angular 5, and more. Unfortunately, the video for this podcast was...
10.20.2017
Episode 36 - Oct 2017
Due to a variety of circumstances (including the move to Libsyn for hosting), this episode is being posted late. It was originally recorded in September, 2017. In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss the Equifax hack (caused by an...
08.03.2017
Episode 35 - Jul 2017
Kito and Danno discuss Google I/O, PWAs, Polymer, Java EE 8, JavaOne, testing, TypeScript, augmented reality, Kotlin, Java 9, and more. UI Tier Google I/O Polymer 2 Progressive Web Apps Java EE Java EE 8...
04.22.2017
Episode 34 - Apr 2017
Kito and Danno discuss JSF, Polymer, BootsFaces, Java EE 8, microprofile.io, AWS S3 going down, and more. UI Tier PrimeReact 1.0.0-Alpha.1 Released JSF 2.3 Released Getting Started with BootsFaces: a Tutorial webfaces Polymer 2.0 RC1...
03.15.2017
Episode 33 - Mar 2017
After a long hiatus, Kito, Ian, and Danno discuss a variety of topics, including Elm, Angular, JSweet, PrimeNG, Web Components, Polymer, TypeScript, and more. Links Angular 2 released (Sept 2016) Angular 4 planned - What? (Dec 2016)...
05.21.2016
Episode 32 - Mar 2016
A lively discussion with Kito, Daniel, and special guest Java Champion Arun Gupta. They discuss a variety of topics, including Docker, Kubernetes, the future of Java EE, Couchbase, the impact of removing a popular NPM package, health and fitness, and...
02.16.2016
Episode 31 - Feb 2016
Kito, Danno, and special guest Cagatay Civici discuss font-end web development, Angular2, Web Components, PrimeFaces and related projects (Prime Elements, PrimeUI, and PrimeNG), Java EE MVC, Oracle dropping the Java plugin, and Oracle’s commitment to Java EE and the JCP....
12.22.2015
Episode 30 - Dec 2015
Kito, Daniel, Ian and special guest Venkat Subramaniam discuss a wide variety of topics including JavaOne, Java lambdas, microservices, ES2015’s class syntax, and his new book, Pragmatic Scala (the second edition of Programming Scala). In fact, the discussion was so...
08.15.2015
Episode 29 - Aug 2015
Kito, Daniel, and Ian discuss the challenges of programming with different languages plus new releases from JBoss, Spring, PrimeFaces, RichFaces, TypeScript, git, WebSphere, and more. They also discuss the rise of TypeScript as a popular alternative to other JavaScript transpiler...
07.12.2015
Episode 28 - Jul 2015
Kito and Daniel discuss new releases from PrimeFaces, OpenWebBeans, DeltaSpike, Spring Boot, Polymer, AngularJS, WebAssembly, Play, Lucene, new JSF extensions, and more. They also discuss Microsoft’s open-source strategy and Visual Studio Code. Keep up with the alphabet soup of product...
05.16.2015
Episode 27 - May 2015
Kito and Daniel are joined by special guest Seb Rose (co-author of The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers). They discuss new releases from Polymer, ICEfaces, PrimeFaces, JBoss EAP, SonarCube, Pitest, IntelliJ IDEA, Serenity, and more....
04.04.2015
Episode 26 - Mar 2015
Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases from Oracle, PrimeFaces, RichFaces, Hibernate, Spring, Apache, and more. They also discuss AngularJS 2.0’s decision to use TypeScript, Microsoft dropping IE, and testing with Selenium and Geb. Correction: PrimeFaces Sentinel Layout + Theme...
02.22.2015
Episode 25 - Feb 2015
Kito and Daniel cover new releases from HighFaces, GISFaces, Spring, Java SE/ME, WebSphere, Arquillian, Apache, and more. They also discuss Microsoft’s new Spartan browser and Pivotal’s decision to stop sponsoring Groovy and Grails. UI Tier HighFaces 1.0 GISFaces 1.4 ...
01.24.2015
Episode 24 - Jan 2015
Kito, Ian, Daniel and Reza cover new Enterprise Java releases, including Jersey, RichFaces, AngularJS, TypeScript, JMS, Akka, Spring, Hibernate OGM, JSF, Scala and more. They also discuss Oracle’s new Alta UI project, as well as Adopt-a-JSR, JavaOne videos, and more....
12.18.2014
Episode 23 - Dec 2014
Kito, Ian, and Daniel cover new releases of AngularJS, PrimeFaces, MyFaces, Bootstrap, Hadoop, Spring Roo, Tomcat, Arquillian, Spring Framework, Spring Integration, Akka, Solr, Lucene, and more. They also discuss the forking of Node.js, microservices vs app servers, and a recent...
10.17.2014
Episode 22 - October 2014
Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss JavaOne, JSF, web frameworks, mobile development, Internet of Things, and new JBoss, Apache, PrimeFaces, Spring, MySQL, and TypeSafe releases. UI Tier JavaOne Update: Kito's JSF sessions When the PrimeFaces Bootstrap Theme Isn’t Enough...

What's The Stackd Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Stackd Podcast episodes:

Stackd 71: Eventually Eventuate

Stackd 70: Natural Born Advocate

Stackd 69: Tales from Ken’s Side

Stackd 68: Interview with Jeanne Boyarsky

Stackd 67: AI NullPointers

Stackd 66: Streams, Messages, Events, and a Java User Group

Stackd 65: Devnexus, indeed

Stackd 64: Beware of the Blue Drink

Stackd 63: One CLI to Rule them All

Stackd 62: Make JavaOne Again

Stackd 61: May the Source be with You

Stackd 60: No Code for You

Stackd 59: Holly Cummins, Quarkus, IBM, and the Garage

Stackd 58: Raible Rambles about Life, JHipster, Okta, and more

Stackd 57: BDD Deep Dive!

Stackd 56: Andres Almiray and JReleaser FTW!

Stackd 55: Welcome 2022! JChampionsConf, Log4Shell, Angular 13, JakartaEE 10 and more!

Stackd 54: All things Akka

Stackd 53. An interview with Richard Fichtner

Stackd 52. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

COVID as the new normal (and new releases)

Stackd 50. We're baaack!

Stack 49

Stackd 48. BlackLivesMatter + Releases abound!

Stackd 47. With Special Guest Cagatay Civici!

Stackd 46. As we spend time coding! (since we are isolating)

Stackd 45. In Isolation and Self-quarantine!

Stackd 44. Angular, PrimeVue, State of JS, Quarkus and Jakarta EE

Stackd 43. Year end Review!

Episode 42. On Primefaces, Jakarta EE, JDK 13, OracleCodeOne and a New Show Name

Episode 41. on Java EE Guardians, Jakarta EE vs Microprofile, JDK 13, and JavaFX.

Episode 40 - July 2019

Episode 39 - Jan 2018

Episode 38 - Dec 2017

Episode 37 - Nov 2017

Episode 36 - Oct 2017

Episode 35 - Jul 2017

Episode 34 - Apr 2017

Episode 33 - Mar 2017

Episode 32 - Mar 2016

Episode 31 - Feb 2016

Episode 30 - Dec 2015

Episode 29 - Aug 2015

Episode 28 - Jul 2015

Episode 27 - May 2015

Episode 26 - Mar 2015

Episode 25 - Feb 2015

Episode 24 - Jan 2015

Episode 23 - Dec 2014

Episode 22 - October 2014