How KumuluzEE Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jan Meznaric (jmezna) about:

Windows 98 on Pentium 1, recording a Windows 98 screen with an old VHS camera, enjoying MS Paint and educational games, starting programming with Visual Basic and "Happy New Year", the Linux fascination, creating PHP based websites, making a barcode scanner working during vacations in .net, the superstar programmer at high school, starting with Java 2, enjoying Java EE and GlassFish, joining the Java Enterprise research program at the university, JBoss, input validation with Java Server Pages (JSP), Drools and JBPM, business rules are too hard for business users, Drools debugging is a challenge, the University of Ljubljana, the microservice framework for Java Enterprise solutions, optimising Java EE for cloud native architecture, Glassfish, Payara, WildFly vs. KumuluzEE, "java -jar glassfish.jar", KumuluzEE committers at airhacks.com MUC workshops, KumuluzEE ships with the smallest jar, KumuluzEE JPA / CRUD app starts in a few seconds, exploded JARs, FAT jars and layered JARs are coming, KumuluzEE supports MicroProfile, KumuluzEE supports etcd and consul, KumuluzEE discovers kubernetes services, KumuluzEE comes with useful extensions, ethereum integration, feature flags support, the version export, subscribing to blockchain events, KumuluzEE comes with commercial support, KumuluzEE uses smallrye to implement some MicroProfile APIs, tree vs. flat metrics, configuration change events, peer to peer microservice update strategies, Java project JXTA, wild pigs, peer to peer and octoberfest, creating a Kubernetes ingest controllers

Jan Meznaric on github: jmezna