An airhacks.fm conversation with Alasdair Nottingham (@nottycode) about:

bbc micro,

basic programming with archimedes computers by acorn,

playing simcity 2000 on 286,

brother as valorant creative director at riot games,

enjoying programming - except prolog,

functional C,

starting with Java and JDK 1.1.8 in 1999,

Java is great because it is lacking pointers,

built-in data structures in Java,

forgetting about public static void main,

writing Unit Tests without JUnit,

deleting "red" tests,

writing unit tests for the IBM MQ JMS client,

joining the IBM WebSphere team,

writing product samples,

extending a pearl wiki,

running MQ series as a sidecar,

developing a Java based JMS solution in WebSphere v6,

writing "mediation" for websphere MQ,

almost serverless mediators,

rebuilding WebSphere on top of OSGi,

no worries about code ownership,

isolating app server libraries with OSGi,

OpenLiberty started in 2010,

just enough application server concept,

the costs of memory,

optimizations vs. developer experience,

responsiveness over memory consumption,

fashion trends in IT industry,

Scala's XML support,

coding architects are valuable,

OpenLiberty was opensourced in 2017,

not at IBM,