An airhacks.fm conversation with Ralph Soika (@rsoika) about:

Starting programming with Atari 600XL

The thick book: My Atari XL Computer - Learning Basic,

programming print hello, GOTO 10,

publishing and developing a Moon Lander game in a magazine,

developing logistics software,

starting a company to develop Lotus Domino solutions,

starting with Delphi, then transitioning to Java,

starting with Java 1.0,

implementing a Java backend for Lotus Domino,

writing Java agents for Lotus Domino server

CouchDB is based on Lotus Notes,

the Groove peer to peer software,

programming Java applets and Swing applications,

implementing workflow modeller with Eclipse,

founding the imixs company,

building to build a workflow engine on J2EE,

removing code with every release of Java EE,

the 106th airhacks.tv and is Java EE dead?,

building a human-centric workflow engine,

ACL on documents for confidential data processing,

learning from Louts Notes,

Java Persistence API and PostgreSQL,

fast queries with Blobs, Apache Lucene and PostgreSQL,

kubernetes in the cloud and on premise,

AWS ECS Fargate, AWS App Runner, Azure Container Instances, Azure App Service,

managed alternatives in the clouds