From GlassFish to Java in Google Cloud

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alexis (@alexismp) about: java
-jar glassfish.jar, Community Management at Sun, Developer
Relations, how to talk to developers, Texas Instruments 4a, a
circle qualifies as "Hello World", Prolog to Java Applets migration
for National French Space Agency, Java Center of Excellence at Sun
Microsystems, Sun / JavaSoft / IBM as dream jobs, Scott McNealy and
the ability of predicting the future - a reference to airhacks.fm
episode #19 - interview with Scott McNealy, starting at Sun in
1998, Sun Netscape Alliance, iPlanet Appserver, moving a Reference
Implementation to a product called "GlassFish", HK2, GlassFish
started faster than Tomcat, moving the industry with GlassFish,
fascination with modularity, NetBeans as platform, plugins as
quality asurance, lightweight runtimes with 500 MB WARS, making
servers bigger and deployables smaller, docker changed the
conversation, dealing with boring technologies, different language
communities at Google, Java is less ceremonial, than people think,
the popularity of Java at Google, AppEngines 10th anniversary,
Apache Beam and Google Dataflow, how Sun lost the engineers at Java
5 timeframe, a huge amount of Google projects is based on Java,
AppEngine is "serverless", Sun and Google have a lot in common,
JAX-RS is Google Cloud Endpoints, Managed PubSub service, PubSub is
like JMS, AppEngine as PubSub message listener, Cloud Spanner -- a
distributable scalable persistence, DataStore supports versioning
is a document, key value store, canary deployments, Objectify an
ORM for DataStore, Cloud SQL and PostgreSQL, BigTable, exports to
BigQuery, istio , Kubernetes, Helidon on Google Cloud, Kubernetes
Engine, you can find Alexis at twitter: @alexismp, LinkedIn,
medium: @alexismp and his: blog.