Java, Serverless, Google App Engine, gVisor, Kubernetes

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ludovic Champenois (@ludoch) about:

Amstrad CPC 64 with audio tape, listen to bugs, first project: a family tree in Basic, 8-bit music over gaming, learning APL with Game of Life then fortran, inventing the iPad with Apple II, Pascal and assembler, working with computers on boats with Vax VMS and Fortran, refactoring logistics software from VAX to Unix C++ and DEC Alphas, starting at Sun Microsystems in 1996, from Java 0.9 to 1.0, Javasoft vs. Sun Tools, TeamWare was like git but developed by Sun, interviewing the CEO of NetBeans at Sun, working on Netbeans Enterprise Edition, xdoclet was forbidden by Sun Microsystems, Javasoft was the church, using Netbeans at Google, improving application servers usability, writing deployment descriptors by hand, Java EE 5 was a revolution, it was impossible to write an EJB 2 with vi, starting to work on iPlanet Netscape and Sun Server, Java EE Reference Implementation was the ancestor of Glassfish, using Glassfish as Reference Implementation and commercial offering at the same time, implementing HK2 - the dependency injection for Glassfish, generating JAX-RS resources with asm, starting at the Google AppEngine Team in 2011, Google AppEngine (GAE) is one of the first Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, serverless and elastic Google AppEngine, GAE came with JPA-like persistence, GAE ships with a single JAR which communicates to various Google services, GAE supports Java 11, GAE supports Servlets and jetty, kubernetes was created at the GAE team, GAE is a single application running on Google's infrastructure, GAE was not able to secure Java 8 like it secured Java 6 and Java 7, using gVisor as replacement for Java's security model, gVisor is the basis of Cloud Run, gVisor rewrites syscalls, gVisor is the new implementation of the libc library, gVisor is the matrix for JVM, Ludovic's presentation about GAE: Evolution of a Platform as a Service from the inside

Ludovic Champenois on twitter: @ludoch