An airhacks.fm conversation with Adam Dudczak (@maneo) about:

early programming experiences with Commodore 64 and Pascal,

demo scene participation through postal mail swapping of floppy disks,

writing assembly code for 64K intros with music and graphics,

developing digital library systems using Java Servlets and Hibernate,

involvement in reactivating Poznan Java User Group in 2007,

NetBeans Dream Team and NetBeans World Tour,

appearing on Polish breakfast TV to discuss Java programming,

working at Supercomputing Center on cultural heritage digitization projects,

transitioning to EJB 3.0 and Glassfish based on conference inspirations,

joining allegro in 2014 to rewrite search functionality from PHP to Java microservices,

handling 14K requests per second with Solr-based search infrastructure,

migrating big data stack from on-premise Hadoop to Google Cloud Platform,

developing private banking application for children using Spring and Hibernate then migrating to Google Sheets with 70 lines of JavaScript,

discussing public cloud cost optimization strategies,

comparing AWS Lambda versus EC2 versus container services based on traffic patterns,

emphasizing removal of code when moving to public cloud to leverage managed services,

standardization benefits of Java EE for long-term maintenance and migration,

quarkus as modern framework supporting old Jakarta EE code with fast startup times,

importance of choosing appropriate persistence layer (S3 vs relational databases) based on cloud costs,

serverless architectures for enterprise applications with predictable low traffic,

differences between AWS Azure and GCP service offerings and pricing models,

Turbo assembler project klatwa