Trombones, Java, Large Scale WebSphere Liberty Deployments and 50.000 JVMs in Production

An airhacks.fm conversation with Benjamin Marwell (@bmarwell)
about: C64 with 3.5 years, enjoying Pitstop, Pharaoh's Curse and
Lady Tut, starting to program in Basic from a manual, modifying the
game source, starting with Pascal and Visual Basic, storing the
universe into an Excel file, automating a space game with Delphi,
implementing a web crawler in Delphi, the "King of Galaxy Wars" and
OGame, playing trombone in the army, starting at Finanzinformatik
the datacenter for the German saving banks, studying in Hameln
business informatics and learning Java 6, programming with 31-bit
computing with IBM assembly, starting with 0xCAFEBABE, switching to
monitoring department and using BMC Patrol, the web and application
servers department, deploying a few hundred applications to
WebSphere Liberty, using Apache FreeMarker to generate 'WebSphere
Liberty configuration, microservice deployment with WebSphere
Liberty, Apache Maven and Apache Shiro Committer, building JavaFX
application with jlink, contributing to JLink, creating sprites for
Legend of Zelda, podcasts with Robert Scholte "#25 Maven
Commitment" and "#28 More Conventions with Maven.next", using
Apache Shiro for permission checks, combining security with Bean
Validation - a podcast with David Blevins "#156 Bash, Apple and
EJB, TomEE, Geronimo and Jakarta EE", Nexus is using Apache Shiro

Benjamin Marwell on twitter: @bmarwell, Benjamin's blog:
https://blog.bmarwell.de