An airhacks.fm conversation with Georgios Andrianakis (@geoand86) about:

early experiences with computers and programming,

transition from Pascal and C to Java in university,

early career working with WebLogic and EJB,

move to Spring development,

joining Red Hat and discovering quarkus,

developing Spring compatibility layer for Quarkus,

Vodafone Greece case study showing benefits of migrating from Spring to Quarkus,

current work on RESTEasy Reactive and langchain4j,

exploration of future AI integration in Java with projects like Llama3.java,

comparison of Spring, Quarkus, and Micronaut,

discussion on the evolution of Spring and its perceived bloat,

potential for Quarkus and LangChain4j to revolutionize enterprise AI integration,

importance of pure Java solutions for AI inference and integration with existing enterprise applications