How OpenRewrite Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Schneider
(@jon_k_schneider) about: from Pentium 2 machine and a rural high
school to becoming a Java refactoring entrepreneur, self-taught C++
in high school, officer in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and
Afghanistan, worked on Java projects at an insurance company
between deployments, joined Netflix to work on engineering tools,
challenges of migrating Java versions and libraries in a freedom
and responsibility culture, started the OpenRewrite project at
Netflix for automated refactoring and code migration, founded the
micrometer metrics instrumentation project at Pivotal, challenges
of introducing automated pull requests in enterprise environments,
rebooted OpenRewrite while working with Gradle's Hans Dockter,
founded Moderne to commercialize OpenRewrite for large-scale
enterprise refactoring, the origin of the Moderne name and its Art
Deco roots, OpenRewrite's Maven and Gradle plugins for refactoring
and styling using a visitor pattern on an enriched AST, Moderne's
enterprise offering for large-scale refactoring and impact
analysis, potential integration with large language models and
retrieval-augmented generation for code optimization

Jonathan Schneider on twitter: @jon_k_schneider