airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev about:

discussion about testing terminology and the difference between unit tests, component tests, System Tests, and integration tests, defining component tests as in-process invocations without HTTP, using RestAssured with MockMvc-style direct endpoint calls, avoiding mocks in favor of real system tests, why code coverage is a misused management metric, th...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Tomasz Ptak about:

discussion about the guest's path from an Atari and a 486 to professional Java development, loading games from cassette tapes, building a clock with the Logo programming language, making websites with PHP for a community, studying data management and computer science, learning Perl, Bash, Pascal, Python, C, C++, Ruby and Java, Java 1.4 and Java 5 with generics...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about:

discussion about CloudFormation as underlying infrastructure as code using JSON/YAML to define desired state, CDK introduction as tool to define infrastructure using programming languages like Java that synthesizes to CloudFormation, explanation of CDK construct levels L1 (direct CloudFormation mapping), L2 (type-safe with opinionated defaults)...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Daniel Terhorst-North (@tastapod.com) about:

discussion about pendulum swings in technology decisions, Kaikaku (radical change) and Kaizen (continuous improvement) cycles, the Purpose Alignment Model for business criticality vs differentiation, historical outsourcing/insourcing patterns in IT, criticism of J2EE as over-engineered with excessive XML and deployment descriptors, ev...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about:

contrasting classic application server classloading with quarkus classloading, classloader hierarchy from Bootstrap and system classloaders to ear, war, and EJB-jar classloaders in WebSphere, Open Liberty, and GlassFish, classloader isolation for multitenancy, internal class bleed-through with SLF4J and ANTLR, OSGi class exposure model and e...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about:

discussion about the quarkus Insights episode "#337 The Database Cloud" stackgres live demo, StackGres as a Quarkus and GraalVM native kubernetes operator for running Postgres, comparing CloudNativePG (CNPG) by EnterpriseDB to StackGres, Patroni for Postgres high availability, the split-brain risk of relying on Kubernetes and etcd alone, distr...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruno Borges (@brunoborges) about:

discussion about the JAZ command launcher for Java, JVM tuning and default ergonomics for containers versus dedicated cloud environments, replacing the Java launcher with jaz in container images, supporting Java 8 to 25, maximizing resource utilization on kubernetes to reduce waste, running Java on Azure Functions, Azure App Service deploying a...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Arun Gupta (@arungupta) about:

learning Basic, Pascal, COBOL and C in college, early Java applets connecting to databases via JDBC, joining Sun Microsystems in March 1999 as an RMI/CORBA test engineer, the Portable Object Adapter and IIOP wire protocol, RMI-IIOP for language interoperability, J2EE 1.2 alpha release, JAX-B and JAX-RS testing, J2EE technologies migrating into Java...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Martin Kouba (@martunek) about:

ZX Spectrum Didaktik clone, Basic listings from ABC magazine, Laser Squad and Wall Breaker games, writing a Pascal fantasy strategy game called Fury as a teenager, first Java 1.4 contact at university, pushing Java 5 annotations against XML configuration in a first telco job, OC4J as Oracle Application Server with Orion lineage, switching to JBoss...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ian Rogers (@Ian Rogers) about:

ZX Spectrum 128K with rubber keys and a burning side grill, Basic programming competitions, REM commands as ASCII art, PC versus Amiga and Archimedes era in the UK, fractal landscape generators for Wing Commander 4 cut scenes, Ocean Software in Manchester and the Head Over Heels game, Manchester Baby and Williams tube as the first stored-program c...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Manik Surtani (@maniksurtani) about:

programming on the BBC Micro with Basic and writing a Trojan horse, GW BASIC and Turbo Pascal on PC, Space Invaders-style games, C++ neural network simulating bat learning behavior at university, PHP e-commerce startup Silk Road Software competing with Intershop in the late 1990s, multi-tenant web shops for UK customers, the dot-com crash and...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christofer Dutz (@christofer-dutz) about:

discussion about Apache PLC4X as the JDBC of industrial automation, the API and SPI architecture with Java service loader for driver discovery, Modbus protocol for HVAC systems and heating devices, PLC4X core API operations including discovery and browsing and reading and writing and subscribing and publishing, multi-language support wit...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about:

discussion about migrating a German bank to AWS in 2012, early EC2 instances and the launch of AWS VPC for private networking, clicking the AWS console before discovering CloudFormation, CloudFormation released in 2011 with JSON-only templates, Hazelcast cluster synchronization bugs on single-core EC2 instances, multicast limitations in VPC and...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about:

discussion about Quarkus energy efficiency and performance benchmarks, comparing Quarkus throughput and energy consumption to Spring Boot, the Quarkus Benchmarks repository and Spring-Quarkus performance comparison repository on GitHub, three times throughput and half the energy consumption with Quarkus, Quarkus build-time optimization and t...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Brian Vermeer (@BrianVerm) about:

growing up with a Commodore 64 and gaming, inheriting a 486 DX2 with Windows 3.1, first "enterprise" migration from Windows 3.1 to 3.11, early experiments with Turbo Pascal and Basic, curiosity-driven programming and disassembling electronics, building computers from parts in the early PC era, high school informatics classes and the transition f...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Marvin P. Warble Jr. (@marvinwarble) about:

growing up with the Atari 400 and learning BASIC from a cartridge, saving programs on cassette tapes and upgrading to floppy drives, writing maze games and running out of RAM, the Atari 800XL and Atari ST with graphical user interfaces, studying aerospace engineering and working at NASA on mission planning software, converting Fortran ...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about:

the history of the Teletype Model 33 and punched paper tape, Telex service and long-distance communication costs, the connection between TTY and the teletype company name, 110 baud modems and 10 characters per second transmission, Wang Laboratories field offices connected via Telex, the evolution from Java Enumeration to Iterator to Iterable, V...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Daniel Terhorst-North (@tastapod.com) about:

first computer experience with the ZX81 and its 1K memory, the 1K chess game on ZX81, the ZX Spectrum with 16K and later 48K memory, the Amstrad 128K, typing in game listings from computer magazines, Dan's brother John hacking ZX spectrum games using a hardware freeze device and memory peeking/poking, cracking game encryption and copy...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about:

first computer experience with an IBM 8086 and learning programming by modifying the QBasic Gorilla game, early programming journey from QBasic to Visual Basic and the discovery of event-driven programming, building a password security script for autoexec.bat as a childhood project, transition from Visual Basic to Java around 2005 starting with...