Best Java Podcasts (2025)

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Building Software for Chemistry Labs with Java 58:51

4h ago58:51

58:51

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev (@sbashkirtsev) about: scientific software for chemists and drug discovery,peaksel flagship software for analyzing mass spectrometer data,parsing binary instrument formats up to gigabytes in size,mass spectrometry measuring molecular weights using electric fields and detectors,daltons as mass u…

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"From Sumatra to Panama, from Babylon to Valhalla" with John Rose 52:37

10d ago52:37

52:37

Java's development embraces the past as well as the future and after contributing to it for over 30 years, John Rose is intimately familiar with the process. In this episode he talks about feature design, the right amount of technical debt (which isn't actually zero), why Rice's theorem demands a mix of static and dynamic checks, how Project Sumatr…

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How to Kill a Fish 55:19

10d ago55:19

55:19

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ondrej Mihalyi (@OndroMih) about: OmniFish company founding with former Payara employees,Arjan Tijms as Jakarta EE Security lead and Jakarta EE 10 coordinator,David Matejczyk as Glassfish project lead and main contributor,OmniFish as the main maintainer and driver of GlassFish development,GlassFish optimization and …

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From C# to Java Data Satanist 57:54

17d ago57:54

57:54

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev (@sbashkirtsev) about: Early programming journey starting with Pascal in school and C# self-study in 2005,transition from C# to Java through local programming courses in 2007,first experiences with Java 6 and EJB2/EJB3,working with Delphi for lawyers' desktop software before finding Java opport…

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From Turbo Pascal to Java Advent 56:26

19d ago56:26

56:26

An airhacks.fm conversation with Olimpiu Pop (@olimpiupop) about: Romanian developer's journey from 486 computers to Transylvania Java User Group,early programming with Turbo Pascal at age 9-10,playing games like Jazz Jackrabbit and Prince of Persia,influence of Star Trek and science fiction on career choice,mathematics olympiads participation,comp…

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Developer and Build Tools on AWS 1:09:50

27d ago1:09:50

1:09:50

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop (@vwggolf3) about: transition from individual contributor to engineering management since 2011,managing developer tools and AWS code suite services,discussion of AWS CodeCommit entering maintenance mode but maintaining performance and security standards,benefits of AWS CodeBuild as a serverless build ser…

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Lighter AWS Lambda Power Tools For Java 1:06:25

1M ago1:06:25

1:06:25

An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page (@PagePhilipp) about: Discussion about refactoring AWS Lambda Power Tools to remove AspectJ dependency and introduce functional interfaces,comparison between AspectJ and lombok for code generation,benefits of offloading work to build time for AWS Lambda performance,using quarkus build-time optimizations…

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Babylon and java.util.json 1:03:58

1M ago1:03:58

1:03:58

An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz (@paulsandoz) about: Devoxx conference experiences and Java's evolution over the past decade,energy efficiency studies comparing Java to C/Rust/Ada from 2017,Java performance improvements from Java 8 to Java 25,Code Reflection as manipulation of method bodies versus traditional reflection,tornadovm optim…

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"From Cowboy Mode to Careful Stewardship" with Mark Reinhold 40:43

1M ago40:43

40:43

Java is a 30-year success story, made possible because its development consistently aligned with users' needs. In its early days, the platform required new features quickly, but over time, minimizing code breakage while carefully evolving the platform became essential. Critical junctures along that path included the introduction of modules and the …

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From Cloud Networking to Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)

1M ago

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page (@PagePhilipp) about: early computing experiences with Windows XP and Intel Pentium systems,playing rally car games like Dirt with split-screen multiplayer,transitioning from gaming to server administration through Minecraft,running Minecraft servers at age 13 with memory limitations and out-of-memory e…

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Stackd 78: Pair Programming with a Mechanical Bull 1:31:43

2M ago1:31:43

1:31:43

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 podc…

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From Felix Computer Over Transylvania JUG to CodeBuild 52:36

2M ago52:36

52:36

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop (@vwggolf3) about: Romanian communist-era Felix HC91 computer with Z80 processor and 64KB RAM,learning programming through Basic and cassette tape storage,attending specialized informatics high school class in northern Romania,teachers from former communist computing center,learning Pascal and building w…

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Dynamic Container Images with Quarkus 1:01:52

2M ago1:01:52

1:01:52

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: Framework laptop experience and build process with DIY edition,modular connectors and upgradability,running Ubuntu 25.10 beta with nix package manager,automating installation with YAML and Ansible,comparison with IBM AS/400 feature activation model,docker adoption history for serv…

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1 Billion Jobs Daily with Zero Dependencies Java 56:49

2M ago56:49

56:49

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ronald Dehuysser (@rdehuyss) about: JobRunner evolution from open source to processing 1 billion jobs daily,carbon-aware job processing using European energy grid data ( ENTSO-E ) for scheduling jobs during renewable energy peaks,correlation between CO2 emissions and energy prices for cost optimization,JobRunner Pro…

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"Amber & Valhalla - Incremental Design and Feature Arcs" with Brian Goetz 21:08

2M ago21:08

21:08

OpenJDK projects such as Amber and Valhalla are renowned for their careful and methodical approach to designing and introducing new features to the Java platform. In this episode, Nicolai Parlog is joined by Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle and lead of both Project Amber and Project Valhalla. Brian shares insights and updates on these…

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From Mathematical Sets To Java Collections and Maps 1:19:17

2M ago1:19:17

1:19:17

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: retirement philosophy and work-life balance for developers,transitioning from paid work to passion projects,the challenge of relaxation and meditation versus constant activity,the importance of experiencing boredom in a fast-paced world,Java collections framework design and…

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jclasslib--The 3k Stars Bytecode Editor 47:40

3M ago47:40

47:40

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel (@IngoKegel) about: jclasslib bytecode viewer development history starting in 2001,transition from CVS to Subversion to Git,SourceForge to GitHub migration,Swing UI development with FlatLaf look and feel,comparison between Swing and SWT APIs,Eclipse plugin development experiences,Visual Studio Code integr…

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JProfiler Visual Studio Code Integration -- The Kotlin Multiplatform Killer Use Case 1:11:19

3M ago1:11:19

1:11:19

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel (@IngoKegel) about: jprofiler Visual Studio Code integration using Kotlin Multiplatform,migrating Java code to Kotlin common code for cross-platform compatibility,transpiling to JavaScript for Node.js runtime,JClassLib bytecode viewer and manipulation library,Visual Studio Code's Language Server Protocol …

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Vibe Coding and AttendeesOverflowException 46:25

3M ago46:25

46:25

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stephan Janssen (@Stephan007) about: Devoxx Belgium conference selling out in seconds with 7000+ page views,ticket coordination strategies by companies,VAT validation issues with European services,conference featuring largest Java AI content globally,AI and LLM focus with dedicated GenAI track,MCP and AI agents pres…

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Is this still on? 1:13:56

3M ago1:13:56

1:13:56

C++ Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025 Java Java 25 to be released September 16 New Features in Java 25 | Baeldung Primitive Types in Patterns (JEP 507 – Third Preview) Module Import Declarations (JEP 511 – Preview) Scoped Values (JEP 506 – Final) Structured Concurrency (JEP 505 – Fifth P…

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Is this still on? 1:13:56

3M ago1:13:56

1:13:56

C++ Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025 Java Java 25 to be released September 16 New Features in Java 25 | Baeldung Primitive Types in Patterns (JEP 507 – Third Preview) Module Import Declarations (JEP 511 – Preview) Scoped Values (JEP 506 – Final) Structured Concurrency (JEP 505 – Fifth P…

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Java, LangChain4J and Enterprise LLMs 1:16:27

4M ago1:16:27

1:16:27

An airhacks.fm conversation with Antonio Goncalves (@agoncal) about: journey from Java Champion to Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft focusing on AI,the evolution from Java EE standards to modern AI development,writing technical books with LLM assistance,langchain4j as a Java SDK for LLMs providing abstraction over different AI providers,the …

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From SIMD to CUDA with TornadoVM 45:08

4M ago45:08

45:08

An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou (@mikepapadim) about: GPU acceleration for LLMs in Java using tornadovm,evolution from CPU-bound SIMD optimizations to GPU memory management,Alfonso's original Java port of llama.cpp using SIMD and Panama Vector API achieving 10 tokens per second,TornadoVM's initial hybrid approach combining C…

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Adam && Adam == true 1:11:26

4M ago1:11:26

1:11:26

An airhacks.fm conversation with Adam Dudczak (@maneo) about: early programming experiences with Commodore 64 and Pascal,demo scene participation through postal mail swapping of floppy disks,writing assembly code for 64K intros with music and graphics,developing digital library systems using Java Servlets and Hibernate,involvement in reactivating P…

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Java Generics 1:08:25

4M ago1:08:25

1:08:25

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: Java generics history and introduction timeline,the Pizza paper proposal by Phil Wadler and others,Type erasure vs Reification debate,binary compatibility considerations,Java Community Process politics and Apache Harmony licensing issues,evolution from JCP to JEPs process,l…

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"Deprecations & Removals" with Stuart Marks 21:56

4M ago21:56

21:56

Java is not just adding features, it's also removing old ones that became obsolete and are either a maintenance burden, performance drag, or hazardous to use. In this episode we touch on 32bit ports, applets, finalization, and the security manager. Nicolai Parlog talks to Stuart Marks, who works in the JDK Core Libraries group at Oracle. Right now,…

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AI/LLM Driven Development 41:23

4M ago41:23

41:23

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: brokk as a Norse dwarf who forged Thor's hammer,Java Swing UI performance advantages over Electron apps,zb build tool integration,onboarding experience comparison with Cursor,architect vs code buttons functionality,session management in brokk,build and test tool configuration,in-memor…

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WebAssembly / Wasm and Java 55:17

5M ago55:17

55:17

An airhacks.fm conversation with Fabio Niephaus (@fniephaus) about: GraalVM polyglot capabilities now available as Maven dependencies without requiring GraalVM JDK,running WebAssembly modules in Java applications using GraalWasm,separation of polyglot runtime from GraalVM distribution,embedding use cases for extending Java applications with python …

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There Can Be Only One 1:03:32

5M ago1:03:32

1:03:32

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: experiences with Visual Age for Java and its visual programming approach with arrows connecting components,working on British Department of Health and Social Security project using Visual Age for Java for benefits system navigation,comparison of various Java IDEs including …

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Stackd 77: “I Haven’t Been Fired Yet” 1:54:05

5M ago1:54:05

1:54:05

📅 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 […]…

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OffHeap 91. It’s monday, but I don’t wanna drive to work! (RTO!) 1:24:10

5M ago1:24:10

1:24:10

In this episode, we cover major updates in the tech and open-source world. OpenAI makes headlines with its $3B acquisition of Windsurf, while the CVE Foundation is officially launched. We discuss key project updates like Spring AI 1.0.0, Jakarta EE 11, and the new Agent Framework by Rod Johnson. Plus, we dive into notable license […]…

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OffHeap 91. It’s monday, but I don’t wanna drive to work! (RTO!) 1:24:10

5M ago1:24:10

1:24:10

In this episode, we cover major updates in the tech and open-source world. OpenAI makes headlines with its $3B acquisition of Windsurf, while the CVE Foundation is officially launched. We discuss key project updates like Spring AI 1.0.0, Jakarta EE 11, and the new Agent Framework by Rod Johnson. Plus, we dive into notable license […]…

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TornadoVM: The Need for GPU Speed 59:41

5M ago59:41

59:41

An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou (@mikepapadim) about: starting with Java 8,first computer experiences with Pentium 2,doom 2 and Microsoft Paint,university introduction to Object-oriented programming using Objects First and bluej IDE,Monte Carlo simulations for financial portfolio optimization in Java,porting Java application…

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Building AI-Native Code Platform With Java for Java 1:01:56

5M ago1:01:56

1:01:56

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: brokk AI tool for code generation named after Norse god of the forge,AI as complement to experienced programmers' skillsets,age and productivity in programming,transition from JVector to working on Cassandra codebase,challenges with AI in large codebases with extensive context,buildin…

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"Integrity by Default" with Ron Pressler 21:08

5M ago21:08

21:08

The Java runtime offers a host of guarantees like memory safety, type safety, encapsulation, and many more. What makes these aspirations actual guarantees is a property called "integrity". But there are a few mechanisms in Java that allow undermining integrity - some for good, some for less good reasons. Integrity by default states that all such op…

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Not Your Java Package Handler 1:12:22

6M ago1:12:22

1:12:22

An airhacks.fm conversation with Billy Korando (@BillyKorando) about: Apple IIe and Packard Bell in the late 80s/early 90s,playing games like Three Stooges and Wolfenstein 3D,taking a year off after high school to work at FedEx as a package handler which motivated him to pursue higher education,his first professional job working on insurance regula…

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From Punch Cards (and Tapes) to Java 1:06:06

6M ago1:06:06

1:06:06

An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: Shelton Signet CP/M machine costing £3000 in the 1980s,discussion about the CP/M operating system which started in 1972,Maurice's early career teaching programming at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now University),teaching Pascal programming language,creating a membership syste…

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"Efficient Initialization Using Stable Values" with Per Minborg 29:21

6M ago29:21

29:21

The Stable Values API is a preview feature in Java 25 that allows developers to define immutable objects that are initialized at most once. It combines the flexibility of lazy initialization with the performance advantages of final fields. In this episode, Ana hosts Per Minborg, a member of the Java Core Library team at Oracle and co-author of JEP …

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Injection Without Reflection 57:20

6M ago57:20

57:20

An airhacks.fm conversation with David Kral (@VerdentDK) about: Helidon Declarative as a new feature set for Helidon SE,build-time dependency injection with zero reflection capability,code generation approach that creates actual Java source files instead of bytecode manipulation,Service Registry as an enhanced Java service loader with ordering capa…

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About Amazon Corretto 1:05:47

6M ago1:05:47

1:05:47

An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: explanation of corretto as an openJDK distribution with support for multiple platforms and Java versions,insights into the build and certification process for Corretto releases including TCK testing,discussion of the security vulnerability group and embargo process for Java se…

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Building Immutable Release Pipelines with Hashgraph 1:13:39

6M ago1:13:39

1:13:39

An airhacks.fm conversation with RichardBair (@RichardBair) about: the relaxed nature of JavaOne keynote presentations with James Gosling,the experience of delivering live demos versus pre-recorded content,impressions of the recent JavaOne conference with 70% new attendees,the Hashgraph team including former Sun/Oracle employees like Josh Marinacci…

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Accelerating LLMs with TornadoVM: From GPU Kernels to Model Inference 1:11:04

7M ago1:11:04

1:11:04

An airhacks.fm conversation with Juan Fumero (@snatverk) about: tornadovm as a Java parallel framework for accelerating data parallelization on GPUs and other hardware,first GPU experiences with ELSA Winner and Voodoo cards,explanation of TornadoVM as a plugin to existing JDKs that uses Graal as a library,TornadoVM's programming model with @paralle…

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"Ahead of Time Computation" with Dan Heidinga 23:22

7M ago23:22

23:22

OpenJDK's Project Leyden aims to improve the startup and warmup time of Java applications, for now by shifting computation from those phases to the applications' build time. Java 24 ships with ahead-of-time class loading and linking, which is the first step in that direction. In this episode, we learn about that as well as about Leyden's approach t…

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Run Java with Java 1:02:24

7M ago1:02:24

1:02:24

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Humer (@grashalm_) about: bachelor thesis on a Java bytecode interpreter written in Java,exploration of whether Java could be used as a systems language,benefits of implementing an ecosystem in itself as validation,C1X compiler based on C1 but reimplemented from scratch,concept of sea of nodes for mixing c…

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"Stream Gatherers" with Viktor Klang 32:57

7M ago32:57

32:57

In this episode, Ana is joined by Viktor Klang, core JDK architect and author of the Stream Gatherers JDK Enhancement Proposal, to dive into one of the standout features of JDK 24: the Gatherers API. Viktor explains how Gatherers extend the Java Stream API with custom intermediate operations, why they were added to the platform, and how they can en…

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LittleHorse Likes Sun 1:03:46

7M ago1:03:46

1:03:46

An airhacks.fm conversation with Colt McNealy (@coltmcnealy) about: first computing experience with Sun workstations and network computing,background in hockey and other sports,using system76 Linux laptops for development,starting programming in high school with Java and later learning C,fortran,assembly,C++ and python,working at a real estate comp…

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Apache Storm, Disruptor, JCTools and Linearizability 1:06:51

7M ago1:06:51

1:06:51

An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: JCTools as a Java concurrency utility library created by Nitsan Wakart,the history of JCTools and how Cliff Click donated his non-blocking HashMap algorithm to the project,contributions to JCTools including weight-free queue implementations,Apache Storm vs. Apache Kafka,explana…

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Stackd 76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase 1:44:13

8M ago1:44:13

1:44:13

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 […

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Opensource and JVM Ports 1:00:01

8M ago1:00:01

1:00:01

An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: discussion about carnivorous plants,explanation of how different carnivorous plants capture prey through movement,glue,or digestive fluids,Utricularia uses vacuum to catch prey underwater,SAP's interest in developing their own JVM around Java 1.4/1.5 era,challenges with SAP's …

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Pure Java Blockchain 1:01:11

8M ago1:01:11

1:01:11

An airhacks.fm conversation with Richard Bair (@RichardBair) about: discussion about Hedera public ledger and its underlying technology,explanation of Hashgraph algorithm for consensus and transaction ordering,comparison to other blockchain technologies like Bitcoin and ethereum,Hedera's democratic approach to block production versus leader-based s…

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