A Bootiful Podcast Andrew Lombardi, Beginning Spring AI co-author, and friend of the show
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Aug 7, 2025 Andrew Lombardi, co-author of _Beginning Spring AI_ and founder of Mystic Coders, shares insights on the upcoming Spring AI 1.1 release and the importance of documentation in tech. The conversation humorously reflects on programming evolution, covering experiences with various languages and nostalgic tales from their friendship. They also dive into the challenges of deployment, the impact of new technology like Apple's M4 Air, and the chaos anticipated at the upcoming Spring One conference, all while sharing light-hearted takes on pandemic travel disruptions.
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Classic Sidekicks and Java's Age
- Andrew Lombardi reminisces about classic TV sidekicks like Ed McMahon and Andy as iconic but deadpan hype men.
- He relates this to Java's longstanding presence, humorously calling it a form of self-dating for programmers.
Java's Surprising Youth and Strength
- Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby are all around 30 years old, making Java one of the younger major languages.
- Many new languages are not as 'new' as people assume; Java has proven itself as robust and enterprise-grade over 30 years.
Twitter and Ruby on Rails Experience
- Andrew Lombardi worked briefly at Twitter after much of their Ruby on Rails codebase was removed.
- He describes it as a crash test dummy experience, observing how the platform would scale.
