airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

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 opini...

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...

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...

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...

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 S...

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...

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, sw...

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...

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 d...

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-lang...

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 op...

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 limit...

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 an...

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, con...

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 Iterato...

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 enc...

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 20...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kabir Khan ( @kabirkhan ) about: Discussion about the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol initiated by Google and donated to the Linux Foundation, the A2A Java SDK reference implementation using quarkus , the Java SDK development accepted by Google, comparison of python and Java expressiveness and coding practices, the concept of an agent as a stateful process versus a t...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro ( @forked_franz ) about: break dancing and basketball including meeting Kobe Bryant in Italy during a dunk competition, using AI coding assistants like Claude Opus 4.5 and GitHub bots for infrastructure setup and CI/CD pipeline configuration, limitations of LLMs for novel performance-sensitive algorithmic work where training data is scarce, branchle...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kabir Khan ( @kabirkhan ) about: first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K with rubber keys, playing Bomb Jack as a memorable early game, growing up in Norway near Oslo with lots of outdoor activities including skiing and swimming in warm fjords, discovering multimedia kiosks at Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus as career inspiration, writing a Java applet dissertation...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Simon Ritter ( @speakjava ) about: first computer experiences with TRS-80 and mainframe ALGOL68 programming via punched cards in the 1970s UK, one-week turnaround times for program execution, writing battleship games on mainframes, bbc micro with color graphics and dual floppy drives, father's influence as a tech enthusiast with a PDP-8 in his chemistry lab, early...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins ( @holly_cummins ) about: first computer experience with her dad's Kaypro CPM machine and ASCII platform games, learning Basic programming on an IBM PC clone to build a recipe management system, studying physics at university with a doctorate in quantum computing, self-teaching Java to create 3D visualizations of error correction on spheres during PhD...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christofer Dutz ( christofer-dutz ) about: first computer was a Commodore C64 from Hannover Messe, early programming in Basic , playing Wizards of War game on cassette tape, growing up in Melbourne Australia until age ten, visiting Ayers Rock and seeing prehistoric armored fish in puddles, learning C and C++ at Volkshochschule around 1992, memory management challen...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez ( @ahachete ) about: discussion about LLMs generating Java code with BCE patterns and architectural rules, Java being 20-30% better for LLM code generation than python and typescript , embedding business knowledge in Java source code for LLM context, stackgres as a curated opinionated stack for running Postgres on kubernetes , Postgres requiring ex...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thomas Wuerthinger ( @thomaswue ) about: clarification of GraalVM release cadence changes and decoupling from openJDK releases, GraalVM focusing on LTS Java releases only (skipping non-LTS like Java 26), GraalVM as a multi-vendor polyglot project with community edition and third-party vendors like Red Hat BellSoft and microdoc , increased focus on python support du...