airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

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 regulation software using Java 1.4 with Apache Struts and custom fr...

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 system for a political campaign using his first computer, Maurice...

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 capabilities, compatibility with GraalVM for native image compila...

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 security fixes, explanation of how Amazon contributes features b...

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 and Jasper Potts, explanation of Hedera Hashgraph's consensu...

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 @parallel and @reduce annotations for parallelizable code, introducti...

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 control and data flow, goal to rewrite the entire VM in Java,...

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 company with kubernetes and Kafka, the genesis of LittleHorse...

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, explanation of how JCTools improves upon Java's standard concurrent...

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 NetWeaver Java EE stack, difficulties maintaining Java acr...

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 systems, the Linux Foundation project called Hiero where Heder...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about:

discussion about the importance of stress testing over System Tests and unit tests, Coordinated Omission Problem in load generators where they don't accurately measure server performance during slowdowns, introduction to HyperFoil as a high-performance load generator capable of generating millions of requests per second with just two cores,...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about:

discussion about integrating LLMs into enterprise Java applications, challenges with non-deterministic LLM outputs in deterministic code environments, limitations of chat interfaces for power users in enterprise settings, preference for form-based applications with prompts running behind the scenes, using LLMs to understand unstructured data whil...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about:

early computing experiences with Schneider CPC (Amstrad in UK) with Z80 CPU, CP/M operating system as an add-on that provided a real file system, programming in Basic and Turbo Pascal on early computers, discussion about gaming versus programming interests, using a 9-pin needle printer for school work, programming on pocket computers with ...

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

discussion about stackgres as a complete database cloud solution for PostgreSQL, kubernetes as an abstraction layer over infrastructure providing a programmable API, Stackgres offering high availability with primary and replica nodes using patroni, integrated connection pooling with PgBouncer, kubernetes operators and Custom Resource Definitio...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) about:

first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory, programming in Basic and later Z80 assembly language, creating simulations like volcano explosions and n-body problems as a teenager, transitioning to the ZX Spectrum and other early home computers, studying physics at university but becoming more interested in programming, learning fortra...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about:

Netty committer and performance engineer at Red Hat, discussion of Netty's history, focus on low-level core components like buffers and allocators in Netty, relationship between Vert.x and Netty where Vert.x provides a more opinionated and user-friendly abstraction over Netty, explanation of reactive back pressure implementation in Vert.x, ...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about:

first computer: IBM PS/2 386SX funded by grandparents' Kona coffee sales, early passion for programming and problem-solving, self-taught C programming, database engine development as a student, transition from theater aspirations to computer science, work with Progress 4GL and Silverstream, shift to .net development, joining JBoss and Red Hat thr...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Humer (@grashalm_) about:

early programming experiences with DOS text Adventures and Captain Comic, transition from graphics design to computer science, work on Java Server Pages (JSPs) and point-of-sale systems, development of Swing GUI for touchscreens, introduction to GraalVM and Truffle framework, ActionScript, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex, explanation of Futamura pr...