How Pulumi for Java Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Joe Duffy (@funcofjoe) about:

HP 386, LILO - the linux loader, MBR and dual boot, first programming language - C, GNU Compiler Collection (gcc), g++, C++, circle mud, fascination with 3d, starting with Windows 95, running BBS, CGI, ASP and Java servlets, ATG (Art Technology Group) dynamo and jhtml, servlets are inverse JSP, airhacks.fm episode with Marc Fleury "#98 Walk the Path--How JBoss Happened", starting with .net, Borland Paradox - the form project longhorn, indigo and avalon, starting Pulumi, Pulumi for Java, Infrastructure as Code and terraform, Pulumi is written in Go, python + c = go, projects are stacks, pulumi is opensource, Mercedes-Benz and snowflake are using Pulumi, the AWS Cloud Control API, pulumi supports terraform providers, jsii CDK project, pulumi crosswalk, go runtime handles the state management, Java communicates with GO via grpc, a component resource in Pulumi is similar to custom construct in CDK, AWS Cloud Control API metadata for new AWS services is published immediately, Pulumi supports the most recent AWS resource API, ARM templates can be converted to Pulumi, a state of AWS account can be imported to Pulumi, then the IaC source can be generated, "#143 How Hudson and Jenkins happened", kubernetes in public clouds, ECS fargate before kubernetes, simultaneous deployments to azure and aws, conference talk: Hey Enterprise EJB Developers Now Is The Time To Go Serverless

Joe Duffy on twitter: @funcofjoe, Joe's blog: joeduffyblog.com and company: pulumi.com