Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Java Champion Pratik Patel to talk about Hugging Face for Java developers. Hugging Face hosts over a million open models, but most Java developers have never used one. They discuss what Hugging Face actually is, how to find a model worth using, the ways you can run open models from Java today, and when an open model beats a paid API. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform. Show Notes Pratik…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest from the Spring ecosystem. We’re back from Dev2Next with a recap. Dan shows off two things he built last week. One is Kiln, a warm new theme for IntelliJ. The other is a set of demos for the JSON API coming to JDK 28. Then we dig into a busy week of model releases. Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA fit a 74B model into 24GB, and DeepSeek shipped a faster V4.1 Flash. Local inference is getting real, but RAM and VRAM prices keep climbing. We’ll talk about when running models on your own hardware makes sense, and how to point…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by the legendary Josh Long. In this episode, we will look into the future of software development. We will also address at least one hot take that recently made the rounds. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform. Show Notes Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator) jfmt: Netflix's formatter for Java Spring Modulith Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B on Ollama Ollama Cloud Josh…

Jev is a new model from TypeSafe that answers typed questions about your content. You send it some text and the decisions you need. It returns a probability, a choice, or a score instead of a paragraph. That makes it a natural fit for the decisions your code already has to make. Is this ticket urgent? Which team should own it? Which model should answer this prompt? In this episode, Dan and DaShaun talk about why this matters for Java and Spring developers. Most of us have been asking a chat model to make a decision and then parsing prose to get the answer out. Jev gives you a typed answer you…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Kansas City JUG organizer and Java Developer Advocate, Billy Korando. In this episode, we celebrate the release of Java 27. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform. Show Notes JDK 27 Java 27 Launch Stream JEP 534: Compact Object Headers by Default JEP 523: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector in All Environments JEP 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview) JEP 531: Lazy Constants (Third…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun broadcast live from the Kansas City Developer Conference, one of the largest community driven developer events in the country. Expect conference highlights, hallway track conversations with speakers and attendees, and the latest news from the Spring and Java worlds. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform. Show Notes KCDC Spring AI Recipes Spring Modulith Spring AI Community Project Babylon JDK 27 The show…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by returning guest Felipe Gutierrez, co-author with DaShaun of the new book "Pro Spring Boot 4: An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices" from Apress. Felipe and DaShaun discuss what it was like writing the book together and what readers can expect, including Spring Boot 4, Spring Security, GraalVM native compilation, AOT, Testcontainers, and building intelligent applications with Spring AI. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Danny Thompson, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, co-host of The Programming Podcast, and founder of The Commit Your Code Conference. Danny is also a co-author of the new No Starch Press book "The Developer's Guide to AI: A Field Guide for the Working Developer." We will talk about his path from a decade in gas stations to a career in software, what it takes to run a conference that donates 100% of ticket revenue to charity, and how working developers can…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun will discuss some of the new features around Docker, Testcontainers and the Spring Boot plugin. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform. Show Notes The Java Story | The Official Documentary (CultRepo) Inside Java Podcast 63: AI Solutions with Spring AI 2.0 and Java, with Dan Vega Clone. Run. Done. What That docker-compose.yml in your Java Repo Actually Does Spring Boot Docker Compose Support Spring Boot…

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun catch up on the fast moving world of AI and what it means for Java developers. The guys will cover recent releases from OpenAI and Anthropic, then dig into Spring AI 2.0, which is now generally available and built for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7. You will learn about the new unified tool calling model, progressive tool discovery, and what has changed in MCP support. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast…