airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gerald Venzl ( @GeraldVenzl ) about: discussion on prepared statements and their benefits in Oracle databases, explanation of hard parsing vs soft parsing in database queries, overview of connection pooling and its importance in database performance, introduction to Oracle's Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP), exploration of Oracle's support for serverless wo...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez ( @ahachete ) about: first computer experiences with Amstrad CPC 464 , early programming with Basic , university studies in Telecommunication Engineering, transition from PHP to Java development, creating an ERP system, attending JavaOne conferences, failed startup attempt with a mobile phone bill analysis app, specialization in PostgreSQL , foundi...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ladislav Thon ( @ladicek ) about: Didaktik Gama to Red Hat, early programming experiences with Basic and Karel , learning Pascal and C in school, working with Java in university and early career, joining Red Hat as a quality engineer for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, testing clustering and load balancing with SmartFrog , transitioning to WildFly Swarm / Th...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alfonso Peterssen ( @TheMukel ) about: updates on Lama 3 Java project and performance improvements, GraalVM Vector API support and performance enhancements, Espresso's ability to run Java code within GraalVM, implementation of Continuations and serializable continuations in Espresso, development of a debugger for native image using Espresso, potential for adding dy...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Mario Fusco ( @mariofusco ) about: early programming on ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 , father's computer shop in South Italy, work experiences with Olivetti and IBM, the Olivetti M10 laptop, introduction to Java and aspect-oriented programming, project on advertisement optimization for Berlusconi's company, experience with Scala and presenting at Scala Days, joinin...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Phillip Krueger ( @phillipkruger ) about: early programming experiences with Visual Basic and Java , transition from actuarial science to computer science, first job at a bank working with Java Swing and RMI over CORBA , experience with J2EE and XML technologies, working with XML and XSLT , development of open-source Swing components, work on dotMobi sites for mobi...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruce Hopkins about: discussion on using ChatGPT for Java development, challenges and benefits of AI-assisted coding, importance of understanding and reviewing AI-generated code, bootstrapping approach in Bruce's book, using ChatGPT as a pair programmer, limitations of AI in making architectural decisions, potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on AI-generated c...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christos Kotselidis ( @CKotselidis ) about: early experiences with computers and programming, transition to studying Java and virtual machines at university, work on Jikes compiler and distributed software transactional memory for PhD, current roles as professor at University of Manchester and working on motorcycle electronics at KTM, overview of tornadovm project...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Vadym Kazulkin ( @VKazulkin ) about: journey as a Java developer from the late 1990s to present, early experiences with Java and J2EE development, transition to cloud and serverless technologies, particularly AWS Lambda , discussion of Java performance on lambda compared to node.js , detailed explanation of AWS SnapStart technology for improving Java cold starts, p...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gerald Venzl ( @geraldvenzl ) about: discussion about the evolution of Oracle's annual conference from OpenWorld to CloudWorld, the JavaOne conference, explanation of JDBC driver types and their evolution, Oracle's thin JDBC driver becoming the preferred option, availability of Oracle JDBC drivers on Maven Central, proprietary features of Oracle's JDBC driver inclu...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dmytro Liubarsky ( @langchain4j ) about: discussion on recent developments in Java and LLM integration, new features in langchain4j including Easy RAG for simplified setup, SQL database retrieval with LLM-generated queries, integration with graph databases like Neo4j , Neo4j and graphrag , metadata filtering for improved search capabilities, observability improveme...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Georgios Andrianakis ( @geoand86 ) about: discussion on integrating langchain4j with quarkus for enterprise AI applications, similarities between LLM integration and microservice architecture, benefits of using Java and MicroProfile for AI development, explanation of AI services, chat memory, and tools in LangChain4J, importance of session management and fault tole...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis ( @spyced ) about: discussion of JVector 3 features and improvements, compression techniques for vector indexes, binary quantization vs product quantization, anisotropic product quantization for improved accuracy, indexing Wikipedia example, Cassandra integration, SIMD acceleration with Fused ADC , optimization with Chronicle Map , E5 embedding model...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stephan Janssen ( @Stephan007 ) about: Stephan previously appeared on "#254 How JavaPolis and Devoxx Happened" , discussion on the AI revolution in programming, development of an AI-assisted photo sharing application, creation of the Devoxx Genie IntelliJ plugin for AI-augmented programming, advantages of Claude 3.5 from Anthropic, use of local AI models in develop...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jake Luciani ( @tjake ) about: from Commodore 64 to cloud databases, early programming experiences with Basic and Excel macros, studying cognitive science and its influence on his career, transition to computer science, working at Bell Labs on R language, developing open-source projects like Night Rider MP3 player, creating a NoSQL database that led to involvement...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alfonso Peterssen ( @TheMukel ) about: Alfonso previously appeared on "#294 LLama2.java: LLM integration with A 100% Pure Java file" , discussion of llama2.java and llama3.java projects for running LLMs in Java, performance comparison between Java and C implementations, use of Vector API in Java for matrix multiplication, challenges and potential improvements in Ve...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Georgios Andrianakis ( @geoand86 ) about: discussion on JAX-RS and reactive programming in quarkus , comparison of blocking vs non-blocking approaches, performance considerations for different use cases, Quarkus underlying architecture using Vert.x , handling of HTTP requests and responses, thread management in Quarkus, reactive vs traditional programming models, i...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gerald Venzl ( @GeraldVenzl ) about: from a 386 computer with SimCity to Oracle's database evangelist, early interest in computer hardware and software, apprenticeship as a programmer in Austria, work experience with Oracle database and PLSQL, Steven Feuerstein , PLSQL expert, career moves to New York, London, and San Francisco, role as product manager and team lea...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Nicolai Parlog ( @nipafx ) about: Java 22 and 23 new features overview, including unnamed variables with underscore, multi-source file launching, G1 region pinning, Foreign Function & Memory API finalization, Markdown Javadoc support, ZGC generational collector by default, discussion on Java installation and beginner-friendliness, debate on proper use of LTS termin...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Georgios Andrianakis ( @geoand86 ) about: early experiences with computers and programming, transition from Pascal and C to Java in university, early career working with WebLogic and EJB , move to Spring development, joining Red Hat and discovering quarkus , developing Spring compatibility layer for Quarkus, Vodafone Greece case study showing benefits of migrating...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Schneider ( @jon_k_schneider ) about: Spinnaker's role in continuous delivery and multi-cloud deployments, multi-cloud architectures, Micrometer's origin and design as a vendor-neutral metrics abstraction library, comparison of micrometer to other metrics solutions like opentelemetry and MicroProfile Metrics , exploration of Micrometer's architecture inclu...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gil Tene ( @giltene ) about: discussion of Azul Systems' Vega chip, a custom-designed processor optimized for Java workloads, Vega's architecture and features including multiple generations (Vega 1, 2, and 3), high core count (up to 54 cores per chip), custom instruction set, hardware-managed register windows, type-aware pointers for efficient method calls, fully s...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Cliff Click ( @cliff_click ) about: Cliff Click's early computer experiences with xerox mainframe and punch cards, learning fortran at a young age, programming on TRS-80 and other early microcomputers, developing a passion for compilers and optimization, pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Rice University, inventing the sea of nodes compiler architecture, working...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Stein ( @sormuras ) about: early computing experiences with C64 , learning Basic and Pascal , transition to Java programming, developing a commercial Java game using lwjgl , involvement with JUnit testing framework as a committer, work on openJDK and Java tools at Oracle, discussion about Java build tools and dependency management, vision for a simpler Ja...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruce Hopkins about: transition from Basic to Java , work on Bluetooth technology and writing a book on Bluetooth for Java, involvement with Sun Microsystems and Java ME , becoming a Java Champion, shift to AI and natural language processing research, development of speech recognition and hands-free web navigation systems using pure Java, use of Hugging Face librar...