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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Not Your Java Package Handler
Description: 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 regulation software using Java 1.4 with Apache Struts and custom frameworks,
transitioning to Spring 2.5 and experiencing the XML configuration challenges,
experience with the microservices hype around 2015 and learning that organizations that couldn't build good monoliths wouldn't succeed with microservices either,
automated testing and JUnit 5,
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