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The episode features a conversation with Arun Gupta about his experiences in the tech industry, focusing on Java, open-source projects, and cloud computing.

An airhacks.fm conversation with Arun Gupta ( @arungupta ) about: learning Basic , Pascal , COBOL and C in college, early Java applets connecting to databases via JDBC , joining Sun Microsystems in March 1999 as an RMI/CORBA test engineer, the Portable Object Adapter and IIOP wire protocol, RMI-IIOP for language interoperability, J2EE 1.2 alpha release, JAX-B and JAX-RS testing, J2EE technologies migrating into Java SE , GlassFish as the open-source reference implementation, growing GlassFish downloads from zero to five million in three years, OSGi modularization in GlassFish V3, single-jar Java EE deployment, the Sun Grid early cloud attempt, the Sun Cloud REST API designed by Tim Bray, Red Hat JBoss technical marketing, recording an early docker screencast at Red Hat, Couchbase and the move to Amazon, principal open source technologist role, making Amazon join CNCF , launching Amazon Corretto with James Gosling at Devoxx Belgium 2019, the corretto name meaning coffee with liquor, Apple Open Source Program Office and the internal Apple openJDK fork used across Apple Music and Siri, Intel VP of Open Ecosystem, joining JetBrains as VP of Developer Experience, the book Fostering…

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