Not Your Java Package Handler

An airhacks.fm conversation with Billy Korando (@BillyKorando)
about: Apple IIe and Packard Bell in the late 80s/early 90s,
playing games like Three Stooges and Wolfenstein 3D, taking a year
off after high school to work at FedEx as a package handler which
motivated him to pursue higher education, his first professional
job working on insurance regulation software using Java 1.4 with
Apache Struts and custom frameworks, transitioning to Spring 2.5
and experiencing the XML configuration challenges, experience with
the microservices hype around 2015 and learning that organizations
that couldn't build good monoliths wouldn't succeed with
microservices either, automated testing and JUnit 5, meeting Pratik
Patel at DevNexus which led to his first devrel position at IBM,
traveling extensively for conferences including J-Fall in the
Netherlands, being laid off from IBM in 2021 and joining Oracle's
Java team, focusing on JDK technologies like JFR, garbage
collection, and project leyden, helping organize the Kansas City
Developers Conference, involvement in reviving JavaOne as a
standalone conference, the importance of automated testing with
tools like Test Containers versus older approaches with H2
databases, the challenges of maintaining code coverage as a metric,
the evolution of Java, focus on Java observability tools and
performance optimization

Billy Korando on twitter: @BillyKorando