Scaling the Web: Lessons from Jetty, Bitronix, Terracotta, Quartz – Ludovic Orban
Episode 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 Google-level architecture,...
26 Nov 20251h 1min
Growing Quarkus in a Spring Boot World – Kevin Dubois (IBM)
Kevin 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. From startup times to d...
12 Nov 202547min
Hibernate vs Spring Data vs jOOQ: Understanding Java Persistence | Thorben Janssen
Thorben 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? From learning SQL the ...
29 Okt 20251h 30min
Flyway: From Open Source Side Project to Multimillion Exit – Axel Fontaine
Axel 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 business, and sold it to...
15 Okt 20252h 13min
Hibernate: Myths & Over-Engineering. ORMs vs SQL vs Hexagonal — Gavin King
📺 Note: This episode contains screensharing and live coding examples that work best visually. If you’d like to follow along, check out the full video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qvh3VFlvJnE....
1 Okt 20251h 43min
Software Performance: Avoiding Slow Code, Myths & Sane Approaches – Casey Muratori | The Marco Show
Casey Muratori (programmer, educator, performance advocate) joins Marco to explore why modern software feels so slow, even with today’s powerful hardware. From the infamous Windows Terminal controvers...
17 Sep 20251h 52min
LLMs for Devs: Model Selection, Hallucinations, Agents, AGI – Jodie Burchell | The Marco Show
Jodie Burchell (Data Scientist) joins Marco to cut through the hype around large language models. From GPT and Gemini to Claude and beyond — how do you really choose the right one? Benchmarks, context...
2 Sep 20251h 26min
