Writing Boring Software: From WebLogic over GlassFish to Quarkus

airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Antonio Goncalves (@agoncal) about:

C 64 with tapes, writing thousands of Basic lines, the Power Cartridge and assembly, the "10 GOTO 10" trick, line renumbering with Power Cartridge, the arkanoid game, form BASIC to assembly, Peeks and Pokes, Pascal, prolog to modulog transpiler, programming chips in C++ for a telekom company, discovering Java and WebLogic, the amazing minitel, minitel was huge in France, building Java Server Pages on WebLogic in 1999, joining WebLogic in London, digging wholes to find water, Java EE 5 book with Glassfish in 2007, Java EE 7 book in 2013, talking at Devoxx about JUnit 4, moving from WebLogic to GlassFish, Java EE is the Esperanto of runtimes and servers, Marc Fleury at Paris JUG, the unknown student from Iran, paying back by reviewing a book, self-publishing books, the Java EE 8 drama, the politics in Java EE 8 were stronger than technical innovation, the Java Injection spec, JSR-330, CDI drama, the road to quarkus, Grame Rocher mitronaut talk, from Spring over Micronaut to Quarkus, Practicing Quarkus and Understanding Quarkus books, Quarkus hot reload is impressive, GraalVM with Quarkus is just -Pnative, at start everything is already optimized with Quarkus, Helidon is an interesting alternative to Quarkus, Helidon's CLI is useful, WebLogic customers get support for Helidon,

Antonio Goncalves on twitter: @agoncal, Antonio's github account https://github.com/agoncal and blog antoniogoncalves.org