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The Stackd Podcast

The Stackd Podcast

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Kito Mann, Daniel Hinojosa, and Ian Hlavats · Kito Mann

80 episodesEN

Show overview

The Stackd Podcast has been publishing since 2011, and across the 15 years since has built a catalogue of 80 episodes. That works out to roughly 7 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.

None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is still active — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, though releases have slowed compared with earlier in the run. The busiest year was 2022, with 8 episodes published. Published by Kito Mann.

Episodes
80
Running
2011–2026 · 15y
Cadence
Quarterly-ish

From the publisher

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.

Latest Episodes

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Stackd 79 : Carb Discipline vs CES Robots for Children youtube

🔥 Episode Overview Kito, Danno, and Josh kick off 2026 with a post‑holiday catch‑up—diet discipline vs. cookie overload, hosting chaos, and a one‑day “nightmare” illness—before diving into the latest enterprise Java and AI news. They explore the Jakarta EE 12 release plan, what’s really coming in Java 25 (including why “LTS doesn’t mean what you […]

Mar 24, 20261h 28m

Stackd 78: Pair Programming with a Mechanical Bull

Overview After a long hiatus, Kito, Josh, and Ian are back! They catch up and discuss the current state of software development given recent layoffs and #AI software development tools. They discuss #JakartaEE 11, #Java AI agents with #embabel, #Spring AI, #JetBrains #Junie, #ClaudeCode, and more.  News  Java Tools AI Picks Other Pubhouse Network podcasts […]

Oct 17, 20251h 31m

Stackd 77: “I Haven’t Been Fired Yet”

📅 Recorded: April 11, 2025 In this lively episode, Josh, Danno, and Kito are joined by Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. From Java to AI, clean energy, WebAssembly, and even crime prediction tech — it’s a wild, nerdy ride! 🔥 Topics Covered: AI struggles with debugging – Microsoft’s recent study Clean energy now […]

Jul 15, 20251h 54m

Stackd 76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase

Overview Kito, Danno, and Ian start out the new year with special guest Web Assembly, Semantic Web, and AI guru Brian Sletten. They have a deep, wide-ranging conversation about Web Assembly, LLMs, edge computing, and open-source hardware, and their potential to reduce compute costs. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to artificial […]

Apr 22, 20251h 44m

Stackd 75: He’s a mystery man

Overview Josh, Kito, and Danno are joined by special guest Nilanjan Raychaudhuri, founder of Tublian and author of Scala in Action.They discuss the retirement of James Gosling, Jakarta EE 12, software development agents, TabNine, LangGraph for Java,...

Dec 4, 20240

Stackd 74: But it’s soup

📅 Recorded Date: August 30, 2024 🎙️ Overview: For the first time in a while, the whole gang is back together! Kito, Josh, Danno, and Ian are joined by special guest Lenny Primak, a pilot and prolific open-source contributor. In this...

Oct 9, 20240

Stackd 73: Blow your Brains Out

Recorded Date: 31 May 2024 Title: Blow your Brains Out Overview Josh, Kito, and Danno are joined by fellow Java Champion , the maintainer of JReleaser and a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle. They discuss new updates to JReleaser,...

Jun 24, 20240

Stackd 72: Travel, LLMs, Coffee, Avocados, and Almonds

Overview Kito and Danno welcome Edwin Derks, a fellow Java Champion, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE contributor, and Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, as their special guest. They delve into the new Jakarta Data specification, explore the...

May 18, 20240

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...

Apr 2, 20240

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...

Feb 22, 20240

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...

Jan 30, 20240

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 in her free time. Blog:...

Nov 16, 20230

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...

Oct 3, 20230

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...

Aug 11, 20230

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...

May 21, 20230

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 of...

Mar 27, 20230

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...

Feb 16, 20230

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...

Jan 22, 20230

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. ...

Nov 8, 20220

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 Low Code...

Sep 21, 20220
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