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Apache Grails recently graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. But it’s far from a new project, having been started 20 years ago! James Fredley, and James Daugherty from the Grails PMC talk about why they … ">Continue reading

A chat with several Airflow community members – Amogh Desai, Jarek Potiuk, Jens Scheffler and Rajesh Bishundeo – about the Airflow 3.x release, building collaborative community, and working with a broad set of vendors. More about Airflow: https://airflow.apache.org/ Prefer video? … ">Continue reading

In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects they’ll be working on. Prefer video? That’s on YouTube. More info: Tooling: https://tooling.apache.org Apache Trusted Release Platform: https://tooling.apache.org/trusted-release.html Quart: https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfquart

Danny Angus is the new VP of Infrastructure. In this interview he discusses some of the priorities for the coming year. Prefer just video? That’s on YouTube. Read more about the ASF Infrastructure team.

I talked with Matt Pavlovich about the recent release of 6.1.7, and we also talked bout 6 in general, and what’s on the roadmap for the future. This is the second ActiveMQ video in two weeks, since ActiveMQ has two … ">Continue reading

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis released 2.42.0 recently, and I spoke with Clebert about what’s in it, and what’s next. Prefer video? That’s HERE ActiveMQ website Previous ActiveMQ videos: [April 2007], [September 2021]

Apache Shiro is powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Shiro 2.0.5 released on July 7th 2025, and we have Lenny Primak with us to discuss what’s in it, and what’s next for … ">Continue reading

Apache Arrow is a columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. Project website I spoke with Matt Topol at Community Over Code in Denver last month about the various subprojects, and how you can get … ">Continue reading

Apache Unomi™ (pronounced “You know me”) is a Java Open Source customer data platform, a Java server designed to manage customers, leads and visitors data and help personalize customers experiences while also offering features to respect visitor privacy rules (such … ">Continue reading

The Cloudstack Collaboration Conference will be held in November in Madrid. I spoke with Ivet Petrova Madzharova, Apache Cloudstack PMC member, to give us a preview of the event. The event will be November 20-22, and tickets are available now! … ">Continue reading