Trombones, Java, Large Scale WebSphere Liberty Deployments and 50.000 JVMs in Production

An airhacks.fm conversation with Benjamin Marwell ( @bmarwell ) about: C64 with 3.5 years, enjoying Pitstop , Pharaoh's Curse and Lady Tut , starting to program in Basic from a manual, modifying the game source, starting with Pascal and Visual Basic , storing the universe into an Excel file, automating a space game with Delphi , implementing a web crawler in Delphi, the "King of Galaxy Wars" and OGame , playing trombone in the army, starting at Finanzinformatik the datacenter for the German saving banks, studying in Hameln business informatics and learning Java 6, programming with 31-bit computing with IBM assembly , starting with 0xCAFEBABE, switching to monitoring department and using BMC Patrol , the web and application servers department, deploying a few hundred applications to WebSphere Liberty, using Apache FreeMarker to generate 'WebSphere Liberty configuration, microservice deployment with WebSphere Liberty, Apache Maven and Apache Shiro Committer, building JavaFX application with jlink , contributing to JLink, creating sprites for Legend of Zelda, podcasts with Robert Scholte "#25 Maven Commitment" and "#28 More Conventions with Maven.next" , using Apache Shiro for permission checks, combining security with Bean Validation - a podcast with David Blevins "#156 Bash, Apple and EJB, TomEE, Geronimo and Jakarta EE" , Nexus is using Apache Shiro Benjamin Marwell on twitter: @bmarwell , Benjamin's blog: https://blog.bmarwell.de