An airhacks.fm conversation with Bela Ban belaban.blogspot.com about:

C64 wasn't real, Atari was the way to go, Atari ST vs. Amiga wars,

Pascal, Modula-2 and Modula 3, Atari had a nice IDE with 1MB RAM,

War Games movie, contact list application as "hello, world",

fixing Epson printer hexcodes, chess and tennis over programming,

learning C was a step down from Modula,

system programming and the fascination with immediate feedback,

writing CORBA to CMIP bridges

in GDMO, C++ templates are an own language,

"C++ is crap", Java at the first World Wide Web conference in 1995 in ...Darmstadt,

starting with oak, applets and NCSA Mosaic,

Netscape server,

extracting data from mainsframes with Java over JNI,

Cornell University research with Sun's Java 1.0,

working with Ken Birman,

Robbert van Renesse,

Werner Vogels,

Ensemble in Ocaml,

replacing Ocaml with Java the "Java Groups",

Jim Waldo was leading the JINI project,

Sun Microsystems and Cornell worked together to make Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure (JINI) reliable using Java Groups,

leasing JINI was revolutionary,

JINI message was changed several times,

there was no elevator pitch for JINI, Sun tried to keep the JINI / Java Groups cooperation secret,

A Note on Distributed computing by Jim Waldo, the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing,

JGroups on Sourceforge in 2000 (and still on available),

revival of JGroups at Fujitsus's Network Management System,

the Sacha Labourey and Marc Fleury contact,

writing JBoss Cache on unpaid vacation in 6 weeks,

the Blue and Red Papers from Mark Fleury,

the EJB Open Source System, Mark Fleury and paratroopers,

JBoss Cache started as tree and became a distributed map,

meeting Manik Surtani in a Taxi,

JBoss Cache became Infinispan,

JGroups is the communication layer of Infinispan,

the CP of CAP interests resulted in RAFT,

JGroups RAFT is used in production,

there are many Paxos implementations

Raff is a Paxos simplification,

RAFT for kids in JBoss Distributed Singletons,

useless but consistent systems,

vector clocks is an inconvenient reconciliation system,

JGroups is using RocksDB and MapDB,

JGroups makes UDP and other protocols like RDMA reliable,

JGroups is particularly efficient with many nodes,

JGroups and Sun Cluster Lab in Switzerland,

running JGroups on 2000+ nodes at Gcloud,

Project Loom and Fibers,

mini sabaticals for hype chasing,

back to easy request response to Project Java's Loom and Fibers,

injecting JChannel in Quarkus,

JGroups runs on Quarkus in native mode,

KISS and JGroups - No Dependencies in JGroups,