An airhacks.fm conversation with Tomasz Nurkiewicz (@tnurkiewicz) about:

getting a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, 324 MB large hard drive with 12, discovering the "bat",

the logo programming language, the Settlers real time strategy game, Wolfenstein 3D,

Windows 3.11 was not a real operating system, the "exe" and the "com" files,

the accidental discovery of bubble sort and recursion in Turbo Pascal with 17, developing a file browser

with Turbo Pascal, the "hello, world" in chapter 5 of the Haskell book, "hello, world" is a very complex

problem in Haskell, there are programming languages optimized for "hello, world",

porting a 3d tetris in C++, enjoying the Breakout game,

Arkanoid is based on breakout idea, programming the whole vacations straight a Tetris 3D-like game,

using single threaded, voluntary preemption in game development, discovering coroutines,

implementing a AI-like solution, starting with Java 1.4, enjoying the university time,

building a logo compiler as master thesis, building a desktop, RMI-based, chat,

gathering the "Sun Certified ..." certificates, Sun Java Programmer certification was the hardest,

Sun Java Developer was the most rewarding, finding the longest palindrome,

ehcache is a palindrome, most naive "palindrome finding" algorithms do work good enough for human readable text,

getting a multi-month task done with 3 lines of code, compiling and decompiling (with JD) source code for codebase comparison,

a session about AspectJ,

the Project Voldemort database initiated by LinkedIn, gathering StackOverflow reputation and speaking at conferences as hobby,

joining a Java startup in Norway, working on allegro ecommerce platform, allegro is #2 in Europe,

breaking up the PHP monolith into microservices, 800 reasonable microservices in production,

inviting Eric Evans to allegro to help with the Bounded Context, deploying the Envoy service mesh for greater visibility,

accidental creation of an identical slide ("Recipe For Success"), you don't need reactive programming if you are not netflix or do not serve tens of thousands requests per second,

paying the price of maintainability and complexity, don't use the shiny tools, if you don't have to, the free Logo for Mac: ACSLogo,

and Tomasz blog: www.nurkiewicz.com