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...

Hi everyone, today is time to talk about GraphQL! We have on stage Tanmai Gopal, CEO and co-founder of Hasura. Hasura is an open-source GraphQL engine that helps you build and scale your GraphQL APIs, basically ‘without’ limits! We’ll talk about the history of Hasura, how it works, and what’s...

Time for a brand-new topic today, as we’re going to talk about Marketing Automation. I’m excited to have on stage Ruth Cheesley, who’s going to tell us all about Mautic. Mautic is a marketing automation software, that helps you manage your email campaigns, track your user engagement, and much more....

Today we touch on a brand-new topic: device management! I’m excited to have on stage Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO at Fleet. Fleet is a Mobile device management (MDM) software, that helps you manage your device fleet. It’s fully open-source and works either as self-hosted or as a cloud solution....

It’s time for another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉 Today, I’m extremely excited to have on stage Xavier Damman, co-founder of OpenCollective! If you’ve been doing open source for a while, you’ve probably heard about OpenCollective. It’s a platform that helps open-source projects and communities to raise funds...

I’m excited to welcome on stage our next guest Guilherme Oenning, creator of Aptabase! Aptabase is an open-source tool to collect and analyze analytics from your users. The key feature is that it’s designed with privacy in mind, as all the events are stored anonymously. It’s fully GDPR-compliant and it’s...

We’re back in the Android development space with an episode about screenshot testing. I’m excited to have on stage Takahiro Menju, Android GDE and author of Roborazzi. With Roborazzi, you can easily run screenshot tests for your Android app, without having to run a device at all. That’s possible because...

Today we talk about wikis! And I’m excited to have on stage Vincent Massol, CTO of XWiki. XWiki is an open-source tool to create wikis for your team, your project, or your company. Think of it as a competitor for Confluence. The key feature of XWiki is its extensibility, thanks...

Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today we’re back talking about testing, but we’ll have the opportunity to learn a new approach we haven’t talked about in this podcast yet: Property Based Testing. Joining us today is Nicolas DUBIEN, creator of fast-check, a library to write property-based...

Time for a fresh new episode! This time we’ll touch on a really different topic: Digital Signing. Joining us today is Pete Matsyburka, co-founder of Docuseal. Docuseal lets you sign documents online in a secure and easy way, similar to other popular alternative such as Docusign. The killer feature of...

Welcome back to another freshly baked episode, today we talk about the trending topic in the industry: AI. I’m excited to have on stage Tsavo Knott, CEO of Pieces. Pieces is your AI-enabled workflow copilot, and developers are going to love this tool! Tsavo will walk us through the features,...

It’s time to kickoff 2024 with an amazing new episode! Joining us is the mind behind Homebrew: Max Howell. We’re not here to talk about Homebrew today though (get back to Ep. 55 for that). Max is here to tell us about his latest project: Tea 🍵 Tea is a...

Welcome back to another episode of The Developers’ Bakery. Today we have on stage FG Fernandez, the founder of QuackAI. QuackAI is a VS Code Extension that helps your contributiors when they’re typing to make sure their contributions won’t fail to comply with your project guidelines. Moreover, FG had the...

Are you ready to level up your knowledge on game development? Today, we have Emilio Coppola, Executive Director of the Godot Foundation. He’s here to tell us about Godot, the open-source game engine that’s been making waves in the development world. Especially with the latest changes in the Unity pricing...

We’re back with another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Back in episode 60 we talked about content creation with Effective Android. Today, we double down on a similar topic as we do have Marcin Moskała on stage! Marcin is the author of Effective Kotlin, a collection of Kotlin best...

We’re back talking about static analysis today here at The Developers’ Bakery! We’re really excited to have on stage Nacho Lopez to talk about Compose Rules. This project is a collection of linting and inspection rules for Jetpack Compose, which prevents you from making common mistakes and helps you write...

Time for a brand-new topic today here at The Developers’ Bakery: Data Science! We’re really excited to have on stage Marco Gorelli, core contributor of both pandas and polars, two of the most popular data science libraries in the Python ecosystem. In this episode, we’ll talk about how pandas became...

It’s time to talk again about Functional Programming (or maybe not?!) with today’s episode! I’m glad to have on stage Michael Arnaldi, author and maintainer of Effect. Effect is a Functional Programming library for TypeScript, that offers primitives to support error management, concurrency and much more. But Effect is also...

Today we have the honor to spotlight a fundamental tool of the web ecosystem: Babel. If you don’t know Babel, it’s a JavaScript compiler that allows you to write next generation JavaScript and compile it to a version that is compatible with all the browsers. Nicolò Ribaudo, one of the...

It’s time to talk about testing again, but this time we’ll talk about cross-platform UI testing. I’m glad to have on stage Christian Bromann, the lead maintainer of WebdriverIO. With WebdriverIO, you can write UI tests for your web, mobile, desktop application and much more. WebdriverIO relies on the Webdriver...

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we have the pleasure of hosting Dmitry Kandalov, the author of LivePlugin. With LivePlugin you can easily create IDE Plugins for IntelliJ (and other JetBrains IDEs) in the blink of an eye, you won’t need to restart your IDE anymore! If you’re looking...

Welcome to a special in-person episode of The Developers’ Bakery, recorded live in Amsterdam at Google IO Connect. There, I had the privilege of having on stage Boris Farber and Tomáš Mlynarič from Google and they will tell us What’s New in Android. As I’m a big fan of build...

In today’s episode, we talk about a problem that most Mobile developers faced in their career flaky tests, and we do it with Anton Malinskiy, joining us to talk about Marathon, the Mobile UI Test runner. We all know that ensuring high quality and reliability of our mobile apps is...

I’m really excited for today’s episode as we’re going to talk about Linux Desktop Environments with Niccolò Venerandi, a KDE contributor. Niccolò has been contributing to KDE Plasma for multiple years. He’s going to tell us how the KDE project is working, how it’s funded and how it is possible...

It’s time for another bonus episode of The Developers’ Bakery! This time, we dive into the world of content creation with Jorge Castillo. Jorge is the author of the blog & newsletter Effective Android and the author of Jetpack Compose internals book. In this episode we’ll talk about his journey...

Joining us today is Adriel Café, the creator and maintainer of Voyager. We’ll be delving into the depths of Navigation with Jetpack Compose, touching on topics such as tab navigation, nested navigation and deep-links. Also, Voyager let’s you build navigation experiences which are fully cross-platform thanks to its support for...

In today’s episode, join me with Martin Bonnin and John O’Reilly as we explore Confetti, a Kotlin Multiplatform Conference App. Tune in as Martin and John discuss the story behind Confetti, its architecture, and how they managed to hit both the Play Store and the App Store using Kotlin Multiplatform....

We’re back in the frontend space to talk about Qwik and Qwik UI, a web framework to build superfast web application. From their readme: Instant-loading web apps, without effort. Qwik UI is their UI library, which offers a variety of components that you can use to kickstart your application. Today...

Today I’m excited to have on stage Daniele Scasciafratte, the Open Source Multiversal Guy. Daniele is involved all over the places: he’s a WordPress core contributor, a Mozilla contributor, and the author of the book “Contribute to open source: the right way”. In this episode, we start from GlotDict, a...

If you’re developing on macOS, then you probably know what we’re going to talk about: Homebrew 🍺 the most popular package manager for macOS. If you don’t know Homebrew, it’s a command-line tool that allows you to install software on your Mac. We could call it “the missing app store”...

Today we talk about Golang! On stage we have Camden Cheek, the creator of conc a library for structured concurrency in Go. Camden will walk us through what are the common pitfalls of Go’s concurrency model and how conc can help you to write better and safer goroutines. We will...

Today we don’t talk about a specific Open Source project, but about a tool that can help us build a more sustainable ecosystem: thanks.dev. I have the pleasure to have on stage Armin Nehzat, Growth Officer of thanks.dev, a donation and sponsoring platform for open-source projects. The key feature of...

We’re back in the Kotlin world with Marco Gomiero and his library RSS-Parser for, you guessed it, parsing RSS feeds. Marco will walk us through how this library helped him to get started in the OSS world and helped him land his first job! Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳 Show Notes...

Today we talk about cloud ☁️ as we have on stage Federico Paolinelli from Red Hat to talk us about MetalLB. MetalLB is a load balancer for Kubernetes instances deployed on bare metal. If you like me are curious to learn what this means, what is Kubernetes, why do you...

We reached episode 50! 🎂 Time to celebrate with a special episode. Today we go from building Open Source Software to building Open Source Conferences! We have on stage Davide Imola and Lorenzo Pieri directly from the Schrödinger Hat community. They’re among the organizers of Open Source Day a Tech...