Java EE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile and the Big Bang

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kevin Sutter (@kwsutter) about:
C64 for gaming - Datasette included with 16, how to break in and
modify the code, the high school teletype course in Basic on
serious machines in Austin Minnesota, applied math in high school,
compute science degree in Pascal at the University of Wisconsin,
working for Sperry and the merger with Burroughs, information and
systems and Unisys, writing code in Pascal-like language, writing
chip-design simulators in Alabama, the best software engineering
project award, SOM and DSOM, (not ISAM) IBM buys Transarc, from
Transarc to WebSphere, the "bring up lab" - the early CI / CD, the
performance boost of JDK 1.1.8, the Java Connector Architecture
(JCA) for JDBC and JMS around 2000, working on caching, data grid,
object grid, and eXtreme Scale with Billy Newport, WebSphere
eXtreme Scale and "Eventual Consistency", leading the JPA spec and
the first opensource interaction around 2005, BEA donates kodo to
apache which became openJPA, the convenient way to become a
committer, Java is nicer than C++, IBM buys Gluecode - the company
which provides commercial support for the Geronimo Application
Server, David Blevins worked on openEJB at the same time, becoming
a Java EE architect for WebSphere product in 2013, the development
with OpenLiberty is more fun, IBM moves to EclipseLink but still
supports openJPA, Microprofile involvement, Microprofile became
immediately popular, Ian Robinson and Mark Little met at Devoxx UK
and started the initial conversation about MicroProfile in 2016,
MicroProfile 1.0 started with JSON-P, CDI and JAX-RS APIs from Java
EE, Oracle proposes the opensourcing of Java EE, the meeting with
Oracle in London to talk about opensourcing Java EE, behind the
scenes of the Big Bang "javax" migration to "jakarta", the relation
between the steering committee and the platform group, the relation
between Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, the advantages of keeping
Jakarta EE and MicroProfile separate, opentracing.io became
opentelemetry which affects MicroProfile distributed tracing,
MicroProfile iterates faster than Jakarta EE, from opentracing.io
to opentelemetry.io, SOAP deprecation, openJPA started from a
project named KODO, the openliberty guides, microprofile.io and
jakarta.ee, start.microprofile.io, Jakarta EE Blogs

Kevin Sutter on twitter: @kwsutter and github:
https://github.com/kwsutter