April 1, 2026
In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. One of them, Chris Dutz, had served a few terms before. In this interview, he talks about his priorities for the coming year on the board.
The ASF Board – https://www.apache.org/foundation/leadership
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November 10, 2025
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 came to Apache, along with many other topics.
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October 28, 2025
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/
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September 30, 2025
In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects they’ll be working on.
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September 23, 2025
Danny Angus is the new VP of Infrastructure. In this interview he discusses some of the priorities for the coming year.
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Read more about the ASF Infrastructure team.
August 11, 2025
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 active sub-projects. See also the Artemis video from last week.
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Previous ActiveMQ videos: [April 2007], [September 2021]
August 6, 2025
Apache ActiveMQ Artemis released 2.42.0 recently, and I spoke with Clebert about what’s in it, and what’s next.
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Previous ActiveMQ videos: [April 2007], [September 2021]
July 14, 2025
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 the project.
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November 12, 2024
Apache Arrow is a columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics.
I spoke with Matt Topol at Community Over Code in Denver last month about the various subprojects, and how you can get involved.
Book mentioned in interview: In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow: Accelerate data analytics for efficient processing of flat and hierarchical data structures 2nd ed.
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November 12, 2024
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 as GDPR) I spoke with Serge Huber at Community Over Code last month about the developments in the community since we last talked.
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