An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Beikov (@c_beikov) about:

Nintendo, then Pentium 3,

the rpg maker,

blockly - the visual programming language from google,

switching to C programming at highschool,

starting with Java 1.5 and Swing,

Java was really appealing,

using NetBeans for development,

developing a RPG game in Java,

learning programming at HTL,

studying software engineering at Vienna University,

trying to implement an Operating System in Java,

trying to start with Java Maxine,

jos the free Java Based Operating System,

jnode -"Java New Operating System Design Effort",

starting with PHP,

trying to port Java "standard" library to PHP,

Java Server Faces (JSF) offers a nice programming model,

starting the blazebit company at highschool,

architecting Java EE software at supply-chain management,

initiating the opensource Blaze Persistence project,

running JSF on WebSphere classic was painful,

SaS based JSF business,

great primefaces experience,

Blaze-Persistence on 80th airhacks.tv

switching from WebSphere to Wildfly 10,

migrating from WildFly to openshift and PostgreSQL,

starting another startup: Sweazer - the tinder for shopping with Java EE and Apache Cordova,

working on Hibernate at RedHat,

Adobe PhoneGap is EoL,

optimizing costs for RDS on AWS,

clouds can be too expensive,

WildFly worked perfectly in the clouds,

WildFly ran on EC2,

reducing the amount of data with blaze persistence entity views,

using JSON aggregation functions to reduce network traffic by folding collections,

using multi-set strategy to aggregate results into a JSON document,

reducing the selected columns for performance,

Markus Winand - the SQL ambassador,

"Blaze-Persistence: Use Modern SQL like native JPA",

indices over caching,

the JPA "dot" operator produces inner joins,

Blaze-Persistence query builder supports CTEs,

Common Table Expressions (CTE),

Java Persistence API is productive enough for startups,

Blaze-Persistence generates implementation for interfaces,

Blaze-Persistence maps deep query result hierarchies into DTOs,

Open Session in View concept was bad for performance,

Blaze-Persistence supports Java Records,

article: Blaze-Persistence: Use Modern SQL like native JPA

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