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airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

Adam Bien

From CloudFormation to CDK with Java

July 05, 2026 2:15am 1:04

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about: discussion about CloudFormation as underlying infrastructure as code using JSON/YAML to define desired state, CDK introduction as tool to defin...

Architectural Trade-offs: Pendulum Swings, Outsourcing Cycles and System Design

June 25, 2026 12:26pm 1:08

An airhacks.fm conversation with Daniel Terhorst-North (@tastapod.com) about: discussion about pendulum swings in technology decisions, Kaikaku (radical change) and Kaizen (continuous improvement) cycles, the Pu...

From WebSphere to Quarkus: The Evolution of Java Classloading

June 14, 2026 5:18am 1:00

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about: contrasting classic application server classloading with quarkus classloading, classloader hierarchy from Bootstrap and system classloaders ...

Split-Brain, ContainerD, Quarkus and a Postgres Cloud Control Plane

June 12, 2026 2:19pm 55 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: discussion about the quarkus Insights episode "#337 The Database Cloud" stackgres live demo, StackGres as a Quarkus and GraalVM native kuberne...

JAZ, Copilot SDK, and Why LLMs Write Better Java

June 03, 2026 12:18am 1:16

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruno Borges (@brunoborges) about: discussion about the JAZ command launcher for Java, JVM tuning and default ergonomics for containers versus dedicated cloud environments, repla...

GlassFish, Corretto, Apple openJDK and Why Standards Beat Hype

May 25, 2026 9:32am 59 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Arun Gupta (@arungupta) about: learning Basic, Pascal, COBOL and C in college, early Java applets connecting to databases via JDBC, joining Sun Microsystems in March 1999 as an R...

Finding Patterns: From Middleware to Modern AI

May 15, 2026 6:32am 59 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Prof. Dr. Michael Stal (/in/drstal/) about: writing a Star Trek Basic game from memory after a context reset, the Z80 chip and assembly programming via a disassembly and debuggin...

From Manchester to Mountain View: Binary Translators, JVMs, and Android

May 07, 2026 11:58pm 1:05

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ian Rogers (@Ian Rogers) about: ZX Spectrum 128K with rubber keys and a burning side grill, Basic programming competitions, REM commands as ASCII art, PC versus Amiga and Archime...

Migrating Ruby Monoliths to Java, Agentic AI Foundation and MCP

April 28, 2026 2:27pm 59 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Manik Surtani (@maniksurtani) about: programming on the BBC Micro with Basic and writing a Trojan horse, GW BASIC and Turbo Pascal on PC, Space Invaders-style games, C++ neural n...

Apache PLC4X, Industrial Protocol Drivers, and the JDBC of Industrial Automation

April 22, 2026 7:56am 56 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christofer Dutz (@christofer-dutz) about: discussion about Apache PLC4X as the JDBC of industrial automation, the API and SPI architecture with Java service loader for driver dis...

Green Java with Quarkus: Performance Benchmarks, SBOM, and Serverless Architecture

April 11, 2026 5:53am 1:08

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) about: discussion about Quarkus energy efficiency and performance benchmarks, comparing Quarkus throughput and energy consumption to Spring Boot, t...

AWS Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation Origins, CDK Stacks, and Terraform Trade-offs

April 11, 2026 5:53am 59 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about: discussion about migrating a German bank to AWS in 2012, early EC2 instances and the launch of AWS VPC for private networking, clicking the AWS...

Formal Methods, Functional Programming, and Securing the Java Ecosystem

March 31, 2026 11:24am 55 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Brian Vermeer (@BrianVerm) about: growing up with a Commodore 64 and gaming, inheriting a 486 DX2 with Windows 3.1, first "enterprise" migration from Windows 3.1 to 3.11, early e...

NASA, Rocket Science and Oorian

March 24, 2026 8:30am 1:03

An airhacks.fm conversation with Marvin P. Warble Jr. (@marvinwarble) about: growing up with the Atari 400 and learning BASIC from a cartridge, saving programs on cassette tapes and upgrading to floppy drives, w...

From Java 8 Lambdas, Streams, Spliterators, to Default Methods

March 15, 2026 11:21am 1:09

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about: the history of the Teletype Model 33 and punched paper tape, Telex service and long-distance communication costs, the connection between TTY an...

Kaizen and Kaikaku

March 09, 2026 9:19am 1:11

An airhacks.fm conversation with Daniel Terhorst-North (@tastapod.com) about: first computer experience with the ZX81 and its 1K memory, the 1K chess game on ZX81, the ZX Spectrum with 16K and later 48K memory, ...

From Gorillas to AWS CDK

March 04, 2026 8:01am 53 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Thorsten Hoeger (@hoegertn) about: first computer experience with an IBM 8086 and learning programming by modifying the QBasic Gorilla game, early programming journey from QBasic...

Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A) and the Java SDK

February 22, 2026 7:17am 1:00

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kabir Khan (@kabirkhan) about: Discussion about the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol initiated by Google and donated to the Linux Foundation, the A2A Java SDK reference implementati...

Custom Virtual Thread Schedulers, CPU Cache Optimization and Work Stealing

February 15, 2026 5:02am 1:14

An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: break dancing and basketball including meeting Kobe Bryant in Italy during a dunk competition, using AI coding assistants like Claude Opus ...

From ZX Spectrum to AI Agents

February 08, 2026 8:23am 48 min

An airhacks.fm conversation with Kabir Khan (@kabirkhan) about: first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K with rubber keys, playing Bomb Jack as a memorable early game, growing up in Norway near Oslo with lots of out...

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