Writing Boring Software: From WebLogic over GlassFish to Quarkus

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