The Developers' Bakery

Today we venture in the world of AI with Jason Pearson and the Android MCP (Model Context Protocol) SDK, a new library that allows Android developers to build apps that can communicate with AI models more effectively. While this library is still in its early days, this solution has a...

Since it’s KotlinConf week we do have a special new episode for you folks! 🎁 Today we have on stage Sebastian Sellmair, software engineer at JetBrains, and he’s here to talk about Compose Hot Reload. With Compose Hot Reload, you can make changes to your Jetpack Compose code and see...

We’re back with a fresh new episode! 🍞🎉 Today, we sit down with Gilad Shoham, Head of Engineering at Bit.dev In this episode, Gilad will walk us through the fundamentals of Bit, how it enables composable architectures, and how development teams are using it as part of their workflow. We...

We’re back with a fresh new episode at The Developer’s Bakery! 🎉 In this episode, we chat with Aayush Gupta, the maintainer of Aurora Store, a popular alternative to the Google Play Store. Aayush will share what makes Aurora Store unique, including its features, security measures, and how it compares...

Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉 In this episode, we dive into the world of http4k with David Denton, exploring how you can treat your server as a function! Thanks to Kotlin expressivity, http4k allows you to develop server applications that are easy to test and...

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...

Let’s kickoff 2025 with a fresh new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉 Today, we talk about KotlinPoet with Egor Andreevich. KotlinPoet is a library from Square used to generate Kotlin code. It’s a great tool to generate code at compile time, and it’s used by many libraries and frameworks...

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...

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. Aakansha will tell us the story of Excalidraw, how it evolved...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Today we talk about a completely new topic: DevOps and System configuration. I’m really excited to have on stage Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-founder of System Initiative. Adam is challenging the status quo of DevOps tools with a completely new approach to system configuration. While System initiative looks like a...