An airhacks.fm conversation with Ruslan Synytsky (@siruslan) about:

Yamaha MS 6 computer at school in Ukraine,

GO SUB vs GO TO,

impatience and competition,

looking forward to programming at weekends,

learning PL/1 on IBM,

learning Delphi,

writing exams software for students,

building triangulation software in Delphi,

earth is a potato,

airhacks.live workshops at MUC airport and Greenland,

Greenland is an autonomous territory withing the Kingdom of Denmark,

a secret place and organization with lots of computers,

a secret organization buys Sun working stations,

starting to learn Java to write software for Sun Solaris on Sparcs,

getting CDs full of Java and C tutorials from Sun Microsystems,

writing Java software to collect and analyze geophysical data from distributed, international data centers,

using GlassFish server for data collection,

using web service on GlassFish and the metro webservice toolkit,

writing rich UI with AJAX and JavaScript,

National Data Center of Ukraine,

the ticket to Antarctica,

working with startups building JavaScript frontends,

starting a development platform to increase the productivity,

building a backend as a service (BaaS),

building serverless Java solutions in 2008,

scaling down from Backend as a Service to a Platform as a Service (PaaS),

the screencast with Payara and Jelastic,

using container runtimes for developers,

serverless Payara on Jelastic,

Google App Engine was the first serverless solution,

building software for Data Center operators,

working with James Gosling as independent director,

supporting stateful workloads,

using openVZ instead of containers,

scaling stateless and stateful workloads,

supporting Java EE and Jakarta EE runtimes in the cloud,

GlassFish, Payara, WildFly and TomEE on Jelastic,

Amazon's Firecracker,

Jelastic uses Java to implement the cloud,

paying for what you use,

rightsizing with Jelastic is easy