CORBA, gRPC, OSGI, vert.x, mutiny, Reactive Programming and Quarkus
An airhacks.fm conversation with Clement Escoffier (@clementplop) about: olivetti s663 with 2MB RAM, enjoying nice modem noises, u.s. robotics sportster modem, game launch sequence automation, computer science as fallback strategy, the big O-notation, living in valence, studying at grenoble university, the internet class with CGI, Netscape, JavaScript and Pearl, Java Applets with AWT, the challenge of compiling ADA, starting with Java 1.2, the OSGi interests and machine to machine communication or IoT, build time vs. run time versioning checks, working on dependency injection for Apache Felix, porting OSGi to .net, Java RMI vs. CORBA, the great Sascha Krakowiak, lamport clocks and paxos, the challenges of distributed computing, handling failures with CORBA is problematic, CORBA is gone, WS-* came, the HATEOAS idea of REST, HTTP based RPC vs. REST, CDI in JavaScript exploration, dependency injection in JavaScript is challenging, exploring PhoneGap, project wisdom and hiding the complexity of OSGi, netty became too complicated, moving from netty to vert.x, starting at RedHat to work on vert.x project, vert.x does not try to hide the complexity for distributed programming, using vert.x for microservices, if non blocking matters - vert.x, best place for reactive programming are event driven systems, reactive programming is also interesting for composing asynchronous actions, uni in mutiny, apache kafka is not the new JMS, mutiny vs. vert.x, confusion with flatMap and concatMap, reactive programming requires the understanding of large amount of APIs, mutiny outside quarkus, mutiny on top of reactive APIs, Clement Escoffier on twitter: @clementplop, and github: cescoffier