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The Marco Show
Hosted by IntelliJ IDEA · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
The Marco Show is a bi-weekly podcast about AI, coding, and developer tools — hosted by Marco Behler, Developer Advocate for Java at JetBrains.Before JetBrains, Marco ran a consultancy in Munich, working with clients like BMW, Wirecard, and KVB, and built software at BWSO (now tresmo). He’s also a Java and Spring trainer, conference speaker, and writer of guides, courses, and videos.Each episode brings real conversations with tech people who actually build things: opposing opinions, hot takes, and useful insights for developers who want to go deeper.New episodes every other Wednesday.
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What is The Marco Show about?
The Marco Show is a bi-weekly podcast about AI, coding, and developer tools, hosted by Marco Behler, Developer Advocate for Java at JetBrains. Before JetBrains, Marco ran a consultancy in Munich, working with clients like BMW, Wirecard, and KVB, and built software at BWSO (now tresmo).
Who hosts The Marco Show?
The Marco Show is hosted by IntelliJ IDEA. The show has published 23 episodes to date.
What has The Marco Show covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Databases, AI Agents and Death by Tooling - Michael Simons | The Marco Show" (2 September 2026, 70 minutes), "40 Years of Programming: What AI Changes and What It Never Will - Venkat Subramaniam | The Marco Show" (19 August 2026, 84 minutes), and "From Spring Framework to Spring AI: 13 Years of Building What Developers Need - Sébastien Deleuze | The Marco Show" (5 August 2026, 41 minutes).
How often does The Marco Show publish?
The Marco Show publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 23 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Marco Show?
Booking probability for The Marco Show is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Marco Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Marco Show's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch The Marco Show?
The strongest fits for The Marco Show are IT Services & Software Development. The Marco Show has a technology audience.
About the host
IntelliJ IDEA hosts The Marco Show, a technology podcast with 23 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Aug 19, 20261h 24mS3Venkat Subramaniam joins Marco to talk about what AI is really changing for developers. They discuss why AI often impresses novices more than experts, why “AI first” is the wrong mindset, and why critical thinking...
Aug 5, 202641 minS3Sébastien Deleuze, a longtime Spring Framework committer and member of the Spring AI team, joins Marco to talk about how 13 years on the Spring team shaped his pragmatic approach to software development. The...
Jul 22, 202650 minS3Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, joins Marco to cover 25 years of Spring history and what the JVM's real shot at the AI era actually looks like. Josh has published a weekly blog since 2011 and a weekly...
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Jul 8, 20261h 5mMartin Lippert, longtime maintainer of Spring Tools and one of the people who has witnessed developer tooling evolve from Eclipse to VS Code, joins Marco to discuss how AI is transforming Java development, and what that...
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Jun 3, 202655 minS2<p>Martin Odersky, creator of Scala and co-designer of Java generics, joins Marco to trace the full arc from Pizza (the 1996 functional Java experiment) to Scala 3, and on to his vision for capabilities as a safety...
May 20, 202642 minS2<p>Mohamed Aboullaite, backend engineer at Spotify, Java Champion, Google Cloud Developer Expert, and Docker Captain, joins Marco to talk about building AI-powered integrations at scale, what software engineering looks...
Apr 22, 20261h 11mS2<p>James Ward (Developer Advocate at AWS, Agentic AI Foundation Technical Committee Member) joins Marco to map out the fast-moving landscape of AI agents on the JVM. From MCP and ACP to Spring AI, Embabel, and Ktor —...
Apr 8, 20261h 9mS2<p>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.</p><p>They dive into what it really takes to...
Mar 11, 20261h 12mS2<p>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...
Feb 25, 20261h 10mS2<p>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 into a...
Feb 11, 20261h 31mS2<p>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 compilers and...
Jan 28, 20261h 12mS2<p>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, risky rewrites...
Jan 14, 20261h 34mS2<p>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 choices affect...
Dec 22, 202510 minS1<p>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.</p><p>🎁...
Dec 10, 20251h 13mS1<p>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 Mockito and Hibernate...
Nov 26, 20251h 2mS1<p>Episode description:</p><p>Ludovic Orban (Jetty Maintainer and Performance Engineer at WebTide) joins Marco to break down what “web scale” really means, why most systems don’t need Google-level architecture, and how...
Nov 12, 202548 minS1<p>Kevin Dubois (IBM Developer Advocate, Quarkus Team) joins Marco to explore how Quarkus is reinventing Java for the modern cloud era, and why it’s not about killing Spring Boot. From startup times to developer...
Oct 29, 20251h 30mS1<p>Thorben Janssen joins Marco to talk about the hidden power (and pain) of Java persistence frameworks. Hibernate, JPA, Spring Data, jOOQ: which one should you really use in 2025? From learning SQL the right way to...
Oct 15, 20252h 14mS1<p>Axel Fontaine, creator of Flyway, one of the most popular database migration tools, joins Marco to share how he built a global open source project, turned it into a profitable business, and sold it to Redgate. From...
Recent guests
Recent guests on The Marco Show. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
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Venkat Subramaniam
Java Champion, author, speaker, founder of Agile Developer, co-founder of dev2next conference, teacher at the University of Houston, Agile Developer, Inc.
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James Ward
Principal Developer Advocate at AWS & Co-Author of Effect Oriented Programming, University of South Australia
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Andres Almiray
Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
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J. B. Rainsberger
TDD coach and software consultant
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