Best Adam Bien Podcasts (2025)

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How to Kill a Fish 55:19

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10d ago55:19

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ondrej Mihalyi (@OndroMih) about: OmniFish company founding with former Payara employees,Arjan Tijms as Jakarta EE Security lead and Jakarta EE 10 coordinator,David Matejczyk as Glassfish project lead and main contributor,OmniFish as the main maintainer and driver of GlassFish development,GlassFish optimization and …

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From C# to Java Data Satanist 57:54

12d ago57:54

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Stanislav Bashkyrtsev (@sbashkirtsev) about: Early programming journey starting with Pascal in school and C# self-study in 2005,transition from C# to Java through local programming courses in 2007,first experiences with Java 6 and EJB2/EJB3,working with Delphi for lawyers' desktop software before finding Java opport…

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From Turbo Pascal to Java Advent 56:26

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Olimpiu Pop (@olimpiupop) about: Romanian developer's journey from 486 computers to Transylvania Java User Group,early programming with Turbo Pascal at age 9-10,playing games like Jazz Jackrabbit and Prince of Persia,influence of Star Trek and science fiction on career choice,mathematics olympiads participation,comp…

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Krupp Brother Winery- Sandy Huffine 56:28

24d ago56:28

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In this edition of Bien the Know, we’re talking to Sandy Huffine from Krupp Brothers Wine in Napa Valley. We talk about growing wine through rocky volcanic soil and talk about the integrity of the grapes that make it through. We also take your recipe questions and talk too much about canned ham (more on that next month). Please subscribe, and tell …

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Developer and Build Tools on AWS 1:09:50

22d ago1:09:50

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop (@vwggolf3) about: transition from individual contributor to engineering management since 2011,managing developer tools and AWS code suite services,discussion of AWS CodeCommit entering maintenance mode but maintaining performance and security standards,benefits of AWS CodeBuild as a serverless build ser…

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Lighter AWS Lambda Power Tools For Java 1:06:25

1M ago1:06:25

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page (@PagePhilipp) about: Discussion about refactoring AWS Lambda Power Tools to remove AspectJ dependency and introduce functional interfaces,comparison between AspectJ and lombok for code generation,benefits of offloading work to build time for AWS Lambda performance,using quarkus build-time optimizations…

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Babylon and java.util.json 1:03:58

1M ago1:03:58

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz (@paulsandoz) about: Devoxx conference experiences and Java's evolution over the past decade,energy efficiency studies comparing Java to C/Rust/Ada from 2017,Java performance improvements from Java 8 to Java 25,Code Reflection as manipulation of method bodies versus traditional reflection,tornadovm optim…

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From Cloud Networking to Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Philipp Page (@PagePhilipp) about: early computing experiences with Windows XP and Intel Pentium systems,playing rally car games like Dirt with split-screen multiplayer,transitioning from gaming to server administration through Minecraft,running Minecraft servers at age 13 with memory limitations and out-of-memory e…

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You Sure You Want to be a Chef? Guest- Sam Walker- Gaskins on Emma 57:33

2M ago57:33

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In the October episode of the Bien the Know podcast, we address the question, “Are you sure you want to be a chef?” The Food Network, The Bear, along with a multitude of other shows and movies have romanticized the position and the industry, but what’s it really like? John and Chef Will talk with special return guest Sam Walker, executive chef of G…

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From Felix Computer Over Transylvania JUG to CodeBuild 52:36

2M ago52:36

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop (@vwggolf3) about: Romanian communist-era Felix HC91 computer with Z80 processor and 64KB RAM,learning programming through Basic and cassette tape storage,attending specialized informatics high school class in northern Romania,teachers from former communist computing center,learning Pascal and building w…

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Dynamic Container Images with Quarkus 1:01:52

2M ago1:01:52

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: Framework laptop experience and build process with DIY edition,modular connectors and upgradability,running Ubuntu 25.10 beta with nix package manager,automating installation with YAML and Ansible,comparison with IBM AS/400 feature activation model,docker adoption history for serv…

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1 Billion Jobs Daily with Zero Dependencies Java 56:49

2M ago56:49

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ronald Dehuysser (@rdehuyss) about: JobRunner evolution from open source to processing 1 billion jobs daily,carbon-aware job processing using European energy grid data ( ENTSO-E ) for scheduling jobs during renewable energy peaks,correlation between CO2 emissions and energy prices for cost optimization,JobRunner Pro…

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From Mathematical Sets To Java Collections and Maps 1:19:17

2M ago1:19:17

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: retirement philosophy and work-life balance for developers,transitioning from paid work to passion projects,the challenge of relaxation and meditation versus constant activity,the importance of experiencing boredom in a fast-paced world,Java collections framework design and…

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Flipping Bienvenue to Bistro 16 in less than a week- Chef William Mauk 37:09

3M ago37:09

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In this month’s edition of the Bien the Know podcast, Chef Will catches his breath and talks about flipping Bienvenue to Bistro 16 in downtown Springdale in less than a week. How did they do it so fast, and how different is Bistro 16 from Bienvenue? Also, Chef Will takes us through the new menu. He also answers your recipe questions as only he can …

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jclasslib--The 3k Stars Bytecode Editor 47:40

3M ago47:40

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel (@IngoKegel) about: jclasslib bytecode viewer development history starting in 2001,transition from CVS to Subversion to Git,SourceForge to GitHub migration,Swing UI development with FlatLaf look and feel,comparison between Swing and SWT APIs,Eclipse plugin development experiences,Visual Studio Code integr…

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JProfiler Visual Studio Code Integration -- The Kotlin Multiplatform Killer Use Case 1:11:19

3M ago1:11:19

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Ingo Kegel (@IngoKegel) about: jprofiler Visual Studio Code integration using Kotlin Multiplatform,migrating Java code to Kotlin common code for cross-platform compatibility,transpiling to JavaScript for Node.js runtime,JClassLib bytecode viewer and manipulation library,Visual Studio Code's Language Server Protocol …

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Vibe Coding and AttendeesOverflowException 46:25

3M ago46:25

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Stephan Janssen (@Stephan007) about: Devoxx Belgium conference selling out in seconds with 7000+ page views,ticket coordination strategies by companies,VAT validation issues with European services,conference featuring largest Java AI content globally,AI and LLM focus with dedicated GenAI track,MCP and AI agents pres…

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Java, LangChain4J and Enterprise LLMs 1:16:27

4M ago1:16:27

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Antonio Goncalves (@agoncal) about: journey from Java Champion to Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft focusing on AI,the evolution from Java EE standards to modern AI development,writing technical books with LLM assistance,langchain4j as a Java SDK for LLMs providing abstraction over different AI providers,the …

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From SIMD to CUDA with TornadoVM 45:08

4M ago45:08

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou (@mikepapadim) about: GPU acceleration for LLMs in Java using tornadovm,evolution from CPU-bound SIMD optimizations to GPU memory management,Alfonso's original Java port of llama.cpp using SIMD and Panama Vector API achieving 10 tokens per second,TornadoVM's initial hybrid approach combining C…

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Goat Lab Brewery Moves into Fayetteville- Bill Adams 35:47

4M ago35:47

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Goat Lab Red will be taking over the former Renzo's Italian Steakhouse space in Fayetteville. Bienvenue Owner/Executive Chef William Mauk and Flavors of NWA Host John Engleman talk with Goat Lab Owner Bill Adams about the progress and what the space will eventually be. Sidenote- Chef Mauk will be handling the culinary side of things at Goat Lab Red…

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Adam && Adam == true 1:11:26

4M ago1:11:26

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Adam Dudczak (@maneo) about: early programming experiences with Commodore 64 and Pascal,demo scene participation through postal mail swapping of floppy disks,writing assembly code for 64K intros with music and graphics,developing digital library systems using Java Servlets and Hibernate,involvement in reactivating P…

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Java Generics 1:08:25

4M ago1:08:25

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: Java generics history and introduction timeline,the Pizza paper proposal by Phil Wadler and others,Type erasure vs Reification debate,binary compatibility considerations,Java Community Process politics and Apache Harmony licensing issues,evolution from JCP to JEPs process,l…

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AI/LLM Driven Development 41:23

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: brokk as a Norse dwarf who forged Thor's hammer,Java Swing UI performance advantages over Electron apps,zb build tool integration,onboarding experience comparison with Cursor,architect vs code buttons functionality,session management in brokk,build and test tool configuration,in-memor…

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WebAssembly / Wasm and Java 55:17

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Fabio Niephaus (@fniephaus) about: GraalVM polyglot capabilities now available as Maven dependencies without requiring GraalVM JDK,running WebAssembly modules in Java applications using GraalWasm,separation of polyglot runtime from GraalVM distribution,embedding use cases for extending Java applications with python …

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There Can Be Only One 1:03:32

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: experiences with Visual Age for Java and its visual programming approach with arrows connecting components,working on British Department of Health and Social Security project using Visual Age for Java for benefits system navigation,comparison of various Java IDEs including …

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Burgers and Random Hilarity- Pleasant Counter's Ahren Boulanger 58:33

5M ago58:33

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It’s the 15th of the month, you know what that means!! It’s a new episode of the Bien the Know podcast! Hey- it's episode 10! Double-digits, baby!!! I guffawed several times while editing this one. Me and Bienvenue Owner/Chef William Mauk interviewed Pleasant Counter Co-owner Ahren Boulanger and we had a time. A few times with laughing tears. We ta…

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TornadoVM: The Need for GPU Speed 59:41

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou (@mikepapadim) about: starting with Java 8,first computer experiences with Pentium 2,doom 2 and Microsoft Paint,university introduction to Object-oriented programming using Objects First and bluej IDE,Monte Carlo simulations for financial portfolio optimization in Java,porting Java application…

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Building AI-Native Code Platform With Java for Java 1:01:56

5M ago1:01:56

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: brokk AI tool for code generation named after Norse god of the forge,AI as complement to experienced programmers' skillsets,age and productivity in programming,transition from JVector to working on Cassandra codebase,challenges with AI in large codebases with extensive context,buildin…

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Not Your Java Package Handler 1:12:22

6M ago1:12:22

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Billy Korando (@BillyKorando) about: Apple IIe and Packard Bell in the late 80s/early 90s,playing games like Three Stooges and Wolfenstein 3D,taking a year off after high school to work at FedEx as a package handler which motivated him to pursue higher education,his first professional job working on insurance regula…

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From Punch Cards (and Tapes) to Java 1:06:06

6M ago1:06:06

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about: Shelton Signet CP/M machine costing £3000 in the 1980s,discussion about the CP/M operating system which started in 1972,Maurice's early career teaching programming at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now University),teaching Pascal programming language,creating a membership syste…

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Downtown Springdale Street Dinner & Stage (Restaurant Internship) Discussion 51:31

6M ago51:31

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Welcome to the June edition of the Bein the Know podcast! Bienvenue Chef/Owner William Mauk reflects on the Downtown Springdale Street Dinner where he was the Executive Chef. What’s it like planning, preparing and serving 400 of your closest friends? Chef Will discusses that with John Engleman from the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast. Also, w…

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Injection Without Reflection 57:20

6M ago57:20

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An airhacks.fm conversation with David Kral (@VerdentDK) about: Helidon Declarative as a new feature set for Helidon SE,build-time dependency injection with zero reflection capability,code generation approach that creates actual Java source files instead of bytecode manipulation,Service Registry as an enhanced Java service loader with ordering capa…

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About Amazon Corretto 1:05:47

6M ago1:05:47

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: explanation of corretto as an openJDK distribution with support for multiple platforms and Java versions,insights into the build and certification process for Corretto releases including TCK testing,discussion of the security vulnerability group and embargo process for Java se…

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Building Immutable Release Pipelines with Hashgraph 1:13:39

6M ago1:13:39

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An airhacks.fm conversation with RichardBair (@RichardBair) about: the relaxed nature of JavaOne keynote presentations with James Gosling,the experience of delivering live demos versus pre-recorded content,impressions of the recent JavaOne conference with 70% new attendees,the Hashgraph team including former Sun/Oracle employees like Josh Marinacci…

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Accelerating LLMs with TornadoVM: From GPU Kernels to Model Inference 1:11:04

7M ago1:11:04

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Juan Fumero (@snatverk) about: tornadovm as a Java parallel framework for accelerating data parallelization on GPUs and other hardware,first GPU experiences with ELSA Winner and Voodoo cards,explanation of TornadoVM as a plugin to existing JDKs that uses Graal as a library,TornadoVM's programming model with @paralle…

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Sourcing and Shipping Fish to NWA- Reiner Wibowo of Rein Sushi and Hibachi 45:59

7M ago45:59

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In the May edition of the Bien the Know podcast, John Engleman and Chef William Mauk talk about what many folks add to their menus this time of year, fish! Our guest is Reiner Wibowo, co-owner of Rein Sushi & Hibachi in Springdale where he is also the executive sushi chef. As always, Chef William answers your questions, like where is watermelon’s p…

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Run Java with Java 1:02:24

7M ago1:02:24

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Humer (@grashalm_) about: bachelor thesis on a Java bytecode interpreter written in Java,exploration of whether Java could be used as a systems language,benefits of implementing an ecosystem in itself as validation,C1X compiler based on C1 but reimplemented from scratch,concept of sea of nodes for mixing c…

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LittleHorse Likes Sun 1:03:46

7M ago1:03:46

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Colt McNealy (@coltmcnealy) about: first computing experience with Sun workstations and network computing,background in hockey and other sports,using system76 Linux laptops for development,starting programming in high school with Java and later learning C,fortran,assembly,C++ and python,working at a real estate comp…

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Apache Storm, Disruptor, JCTools and Linearizability 1:06:51

7M ago1:06:51

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: JCTools as a Java concurrency utility library created by Nitsan Wakart,the history of JCTools and how Cliff Click donated his non-blocking HashMap algorithm to the project,contributions to JCTools including weight-free queue implementations,Apache Storm vs. Apache Kafka,explana…

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Opensource and JVM Ports 1:00:01

8M ago1:00:01

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: discussion about carnivorous plants,explanation of how different carnivorous plants capture prey through movement,glue,or digestive fluids,Utricularia uses vacuum to catch prey underwater,SAP's interest in developing their own JVM around Java 1.4/1.5 era,challenges with SAP's …

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Small Plates with Colin Stewart of The Ashleigh 41:48

8M ago41:48

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In this month’s edition of the Bien the Know podcast, we have special guest Colin Stewart from The Ashleigh in Rogers. He’s a part-time comedian (not really... but), and we talk about small plates, amongst MANY other topics. We also talk Easter menu, getting duped by scammers, grilling outside AND inside. It’s a fun episode and we get a little reck…

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Pure Java Blockchain 1:01:11

8M ago1:01:11

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Richard Bair (@RichardBair) about: discussion about Hedera public ledger and its underlying technology,explanation of Hashgraph algorithm for consensus and transaction ordering,comparison to other blockchain technologies like Bitcoin and ethereum,Hedera's democratic approach to block production versus leader-based s…

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High-Performance Load Testing 1:10:10

8M ago1:10:10

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: discussion about the importance of stress testing over System Tests and unit tests,Coordinated Omission Problem in load generators where they don't accurately measure server performance during slowdowns,introduction to HyperFoil as a high-performance load generator capable of g…

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Enterprise LLM Integration: Bridging Java and AI in Business Applications 1:05:08

8M ago1:05:08

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about: discussion about integrating LLMs into enterprise Java applications,challenges with non-deterministic LLM outputs in deterministic code environments,limitations of chat interfaces for power users in enterprise settings,preference for form-based applications with prompts running behin…

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From Predator Plants to Concordance with Java 1:04:15

9M ago1:04:15

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: early computing experiences with Schneider CPC (Amstrad in UK) with Z80 CPU,CP/M operating system as an add-on that provided a real file system,programming in Basic and Turbo Pascal on early computers,discussion about gaming versus programming interests,using a 9-pin needle pr…

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The Database Cloud 1:09:03

9M ago1:09:03

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: discussion about stackgres as a complete database cloud solution for PostgreSQL,kubernetes as an abstraction layer over infrastructure providing a programmable API,Stackgres offering high availability with primary and replica nodes using patroni,integrated connection pooling with …

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Keeping the Doors Open- Maudie Schmitt of Cafe Rue Orleans 46:27

9M ago46:27

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William and John welcome Cafe Rue Orleans Owner/Executive Chef Maudie Schmitt to BTK. They talk about what it takes to keep a restaurant thriving in today's environment. With 25 years experience at Cafe Rue, Chef Maudie has seen it all in NWA and has tales of success and failure. Chef William also answers your recipe questions. Bien the Know is ava…

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From OCCAM and CSP to Java 1:09:08

9M ago1:09:08

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) about: first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory,programming in Basic and later Z80 assembly language,creating simulations like volcano explosions and n-body problems as a teenager,transitioning to the ZX Spectrum and other early home computers,studying physics at university …

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Java Scalability Considerations 1:08:44

9M ago1:08:44

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: Netty committer and performance engineer at Red Hat,discussion of Netty's history,focus on low-level core components like buffers and allocators in Netty,relationship between Vert.x and Netty where Vert.x provides a more opinionated and user-friendly abstraction over Netty,expl…

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From Kona Coffee Beans to Java 1:15:45

10M ago1:15:45

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about: first computer: IBM PS/2 386SX funded by grandparents' Kona coffee sales,early passion for programming and problem-solving,self-taught C programming,database engine development as a student,transition from theater aspirations to computer science,work with Progress 4GL and Silverstrea…