The Jakarta EE / MicroProfile and WebStandards Startup

An airhacks.fm conversation with Matthias Reining
(@MatthiasReining) about: Power Basic is not QBasic and was
comparable with Turbo Pascal, game high score manipulation as
programming motivation, C 64 was the first computer encounter,
writing a "Jump and Run" game in Power Basic, Power Basic IDE as
Christmas present, the menu bar fascination, using GW-Basic at high
school, call by value vs. call by reference in Power Basic and
Turbo Pascal, the Comal programming language, learning C, the
University of Wuerzburg, learning Visual C++ and object oriented
programming at university, C over C++, learning Java during
internship at Nobiscum, writing a Java frontend with AWT for CVS as
proof of concept, renaming com.sun.swing to javax.swing, switching
to Lotus Notes as consultant, improving Lotus Notes user interface
with Java, accessing Lotus Notes with JDBC, CouchDB the Lotus Notes
"successor" created by Damien Katz - a former Lotus Notes
developer, Lotus Notes the NoSQL database before the popularity of
NoSQL, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL and back to Java, JSPs, Servlets,
Tomcat and Apache Struts, from Java back to Pearl, the strategy of
spending as much time as possible in a single project, writing
fronted code with "this and that" or ES 5-the ancient JavaScript,
the Java EE 5 fascination, xdoclet code generation for early EJB
versions was slow, annotation-based programming with Java EE 5
improved the productivity, building a freelancer portal with Java
EE 5 as proof of concept, a Java EE workshop in 2011, learning
politics in Java insurance projects with "C-structs" as design
pattern, enjoying PowerPoint time, founding a startup with Java EE
8 / Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile as technology choice, WildFly and
Keycloak are the perfect technologies for a startup, focus on the
business and not the technology, considering OpenLiberty and
Quarkus as migration target caused by slow support of MicroProfile
APIs by WildFly, saving memory with Quarkus, making WARs thinner by
moving to MicroProfile JWT from proprietary Keycloak libraries,
building the heart of an insurance company - an insurance platform,
cloud-ready and private clouds are a common deployment model,
migration from COBOL systems to tech11 insurance platform, team of
8 people is incredibly productive, it is hard to find good
developers in Germany, hiring pragmatic developers from Afrika with
the "ThinWAR" mindset, the "airhacks stack", polyglot programming
is chaos, using Java EE 8 as the baseline, all other dependencies
require permission, an average tech11 ThinWAR is a few hundreds kB,
code snippets from 2005 gave Java EE a bad name, implement whatever
you can today and care about potential problems tomorrow, the time
to first commit has to be as low as possible, projects and products
require different approaches, the "getting things done" developer,
long-term maintenance is key to product success, every company has
the right technology at certain time, Java EE is not the only
"right" technology, projects are also barely dependent on Java EE,
tech11 does not sell technology, tech11 sells solutions, using
plain WebStandards with WebComponents, ES 6 in the frontend, Custom
Elements looks like ReactJS, lit-html is one of the few
dependencies in frontend, tech11 started with hyperHTML, then
migrated to lit-html, open-wc comes with lots of examples with
LitElement what is not necessary, using Parcel for packaging
without any transpiling, rollup.js is great for packaging, Jenkins
transpiles for older browsers, on developer machines not even npm
is necessary, airhacks.io workshop about WebComponents:
webcomponents.training, tech11 uses a BPM engine to manage
processes, tarifs claims, policies are the names of microservices
(ThinWARs), the episode #36 with Markus Kett mentions the JCon
keynote,

Matthias Reining on twitter: @MatthiasReiningand his startup:
https://tech11.com