An airhacks.fm conversation with Christofer Dutz (christofer-dutz) about:

first computer was a Commodore C64 from Hannover Messe,

early programming in Basic,

playing Wizards of War game on cassette tape,

growing up in Melbourne Australia until age ten,

visiting Ayers Rock and seeing prehistoric armored fish in puddles,

learning C and C++ at Volkshochschule around 1992,

memory management challenges with DOS gaming like X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and Wing Commander,

starting Java at Technical University of Darmstadt in 1998 with version 1.0.7,

appreciating Java's simplicity compared to C++ and no system crashes from memory errors,

early involvement with Apache Cocoon for XML and XSL transformations,

contributing to eXist-db XML database as committer number two,

working with XML XSL and XSLT for data transformation,

frustrations with YAML compared to XML,

transition from Cocoon to Adobe Flex after Cocoon switched to Spring and Maven,

becoming co-maintainer of Flex Mojos Maven plugins,

Adobe donating Flex to Apache Software Foundation,

attending ApacheCon in Sinsheim and connecting with Apache committers,

committer and PMC member of 12 active Apache projects,

firefighting role fixing Maven builds for stuck projects,

retiring Apache Cocoon project,

strong focus on industrial IoT projects,

Apache IoTDB as best time series database,

Apache StreamPipes for cloud IoT orchestration,

Apache Camel and Apache NiFi involvement,

founding Apache PLC4X in 2017 at codecentric,

Apache PLC4X as JDBC-like interface for industrial equipment communication,

spending 80-90 hours per week on PLC4X for nine years,

challenges with industrial automation industry not understanding open source,

anecdote about steel melting plant operator expecting free enterprise support,

Germany being a difficult market for industrial automation consulting,

founding ToddySoft company end of last year,

building installable products and plugins for industrial solutions,

ethical approach to open source by only selling products from projects he contributes to,

real-time definitions varying from tens of milliseconds in cloud to nanoseconds in industrial systems,

ToddySoft named after PLC4X mascot Toddy the palm civet (toddy cat),

plans for future episode discussing IoTDB StreamPipes PLC4X and NiFi use cases