500 kB ThinWARs on AWS

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bastian Sperrhacke (@deratzmann) about:

80286, qbasic,CLI, Turbo Pascal, if-thens and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", inhouse outsourcing with sister, playing Prince of Persia, MS DOS games, memory management with autoexec.bat and config.sys, taking a Macromedia Flash class ...at army, programming a beer shop in a JavaScript course by mistake, "JavaScript is dead" - in 2001, programming Java for Windows PDAs, Sharp Zaurus ran Linux, searching stuff in adventure parks with PDAs, chats and XMPP, chasing hidden boxes, Java ME is not MicroProfile, developing digital TV on Nokia phones with ads over DVB-T, developing WAP applications, mobile portals, ringtones and games, Nokia Communicator, WAP - "Wait And Pay", developing web sites with Struts and JSPs, using JDBC from Struts actions to access the database, Java EE best practices training by OOSE, refactoring with GlassFish 2.1 and 3.1 and EJB 3, working since 2013 for Otto - the German amazon, home made persistence layers before Hibernate, selling insurances instead of ORM mappers, starting with microservices in cross-functional teams, using Payara for e-commerce, running Payara, Jakarta EE on AWS, seamless migration to AWS, implementing additional services with Payara, Java EE and AWS, buying a barista, the largest ThinWARs are 500kB, swagger UI is larger than the business logic, 3-5 seconds boot times, layered docker deployments, 700MB base layer, 5-10 cloud deployments a day, using AWS Fargate, business driven MicroProfile metrics, experimenting with OpenLiberty, WildFly 19 comes with MicroProfile support, Quarkus is the nextgen application server, migrating Boundary Control Entity applications to Quarkus, the push gateway blogpost / application, replacing Stateless EJBs with CDI Stereotypes, Quarkus vs. WildFly performance comparison, Quarkus saves 50% of RAM in JVM mode, drinking a coffee together at JavaONE, coding technical lead, casual gaming, building bases with StarCraft, the a+ team

Bastian Sperrhacke on twitter: @deratzmann, interview with Bastian