
The Ugly Truth About Open Source - Andres Almiray | The Marco Show
Andres 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 into what it really takes ...
8 Apr 1h 8min

How Spring Boot Really Works (From a Core Engineer) - Moritz Halbritter | The Marco Show
Moritz 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 and the future of Java p...
11 Mars 1h 12min

JobRunr: Java Job Scheduling, OSS Monetization, $17K Deals – Ronald Dehuysser
Ronald Dehuysser, creator of JobRunr, joins Marco to talk about distributed job scheduling in Java, building a high-throughput background processing framework, and turning an open-source side project ...
25 Feb 1h 9min

Java Performance Myths: JIT vs AOT, GraalVM, Performance Engineering – Thomas Wuerthinger
Episode 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 explore why duplicating com...
11 Feb 1h 30min

From Google to Indie Dev: Mac Apps, Subscriptions, AI Coding – Daniel Gräfe
Daniel 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 into a real business, ris...
28 Jan 1h 11min

Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger
J. 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 scam,” how testing cho...
14 Jan 1h 33min

Season Finale: Giveaway Winners & Q&A with Marco
The 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 a fun Q&A with Marco.�...
22 Dec 202510min

Modern Bytecode Instrumentation with ByteBuddy – Rafael Winterhalter
Rafael 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 powers tools like Mockit...
10 Dec 20251h 12min



















