From JMS Unit Tests to OpenLiberty

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alasdair Nottingham (@nottycode)
about: bbc micro, basic programming with archimedes computers by
acorn, playing simcity 2000 on 286, brother as valorant creative
director at riot games, enjoying programming - except prolog,
functional C, starting with Java and JDK 1.1.8 in 1999, Java is
great because it is lacking pointers, built-in data structures in
Java, forgetting about public static void main, writing Unit Tests
without JUnit, deleting "red" tests, writing unit tests for the IBM
MQ JMS client, joining the IBM WebSphere team, writing product
samples, extending a pearl wiki, running MQ series as a sidecar,
developing a Java based JMS solution in WebSphere v6, writing
"mediation" for websphere MQ, almost serverless mediators,
rebuilding WebSphere on top of OSGi, no worries about code
ownership, isolating app server libraries with OSGi, OpenLiberty
started in 2010, just enough application server concept, the costs
of memory, optimizations vs. developer experience, responsiveness
over memory consumption, fashion trends in IT industry, Scala's XML
support, coding architects are valuable, OpenLiberty was
opensourced in 2017, not at IBM,

Alasdair Nottingham on twitter: @nottycode