Vaadin Insider Podcast

In episode 12 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Stéphane Nicoll, Staff Software Engineer, Spring Boot and start.spring.io, VMWare, to discuss:

• The Spring ecosystem i.e. Spring Framework, SpringBoot, and Spring Cloud,
• How the Spring team decides on its product roadmap and its API design process,
• Spring’s role in guiding enterprises and responding to their business needs as companies undergo digital transformation, and more.

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In episode 11 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Dan Feldman, Sr. Research Fellow, Applied Ethics Center, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston to discuss:

• How AI is influencing the software developer experience and overall engineering decision-making processes,
• What happens to our ability to make moral judgments when AI makes an increasing number of complex practical decisions in domains like worker retention, creditworthiness, health insurance premiums, etc and
• The difference between simply relying on machines versus trusting on AI to get the work done, and more.

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In episode 10 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Philipp Gerhard, Software Developer, iPoint-Systems gmbh to discuss:

• The developer experience (DX) with Vaadin coming from a Java background when building enterprise business applications,
• How Vaadin seamlessly works as a web front-end solution for microservices architecture including developing micro-frontends,
• Why StackOverFlow is often overrated and how vendor-backed open-source can help reduce time to market for enterprise business applications development teams and more.

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In episode 9 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Simon Martinelli, Founder & Software Architect, 72 Services and Adjunct Professor at Berner University of Applied Science in Switzerland, to discuss:

• The respective advantages and disadvantages of single-page applications (SPA) and server-side applications
• A legacy application modernization case study of a 30-year old ERP system originally built on Oracle Forms along with the modern tech stack selection criteria, and
• The advantages of using Vaadin for rapid web UI development instead of Angular, React or a low-code/no-code development platform and the tradeoffs that came with each of them

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In episode 8 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Leif Åstrand who leads product architecture at Vaadin. We discuss everything API design related including:

• What is API Design and how it differs within the scope of a single application ( with an enterprise architecture) and within the scope of a reusable framework (or a library),
• The long-term cost implications for enterprise systems due to improper API Design,
• The questions that Enterprise Architects can ask themselves to better audit their legacy APIs as they gear up for digital transformation, and more.

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In episode 7 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Joonas Lehtinen leads the team as Vaadin’s CEO, and Marc Englund who leads Design Strategy at Vaadin to discuss:

• how realtime collaboration features in business web applications is not a good-to-have but a must for the enterprise workforce today,
• The cost-savings opportunities that realtime collaboration features can help deliver for relevant problem areas across different lines of businesses,
• How the realtime collaboration trend will impact SaaS product development, 
• The questions that product owners should be asking to gather user stories where realtime collaboration features can solve the business problems efficiently and effectively, and more.
  

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In episode 6 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Reza Rahman, Principal Program Manager of Java on Azure, Microsoft to discuss:

• Microsoft’s vision to attract Java developers on the Azure platform
• The 3 categories of business applications that enterprises are currently moving to the cloud on Azure
• Why Java actually matters? and more.

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In episode 5 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Martin Lopez, CEO, Flowing Code to discuss:

• The development inefficiencies in enterprise legacy app modernization projects that call for the need of software configuration management (SCM)
• With regards to enterprise business app development, what are the tooling that comes under SCM 
• The cost savings opportunities that enterprises can realize with SCM when kickstarting the development of a business application on a modern stack that’s replacing a legacy app that has reached its End of Life
  

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In episode 4 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Alejandro Duarte, Developer Relations Manager, Vaadin where he walks us through:

• A COVID_19 Business Dashboard he built as a Progressive Web Application for a REST web service in Java over a weekend,
• The tech stack and his application development process including searching for the web services, web components used, and the time breakdown of each phase, and
• PWA as a cost-saving opportunity for enterprises with multiple native and web applications for a single business process
  

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In episode 3 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Rolf Smeds, Product Owner of Design System at Vaadin to discuss:

• The 2 key business problems that design systems are meant to solve, 
• What’s a design system and how it’s more than just a component library with some stylesheets and some documentation about it, and 
• Rolf also gives us an insider view onto Vaadin’s roadmap for Design Systems that’s going to be released as a part of the core Vaadin platform.

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In episode 2 of the Vaadin Insider Podcast, Ankurman interviews Ben Wilson, Migration Practice Lead at Vaadin, to discuss 

• What’s different about IT in this economic cycle impacted by COVID_19, 
• The 3 key criteria that finance leaders use to allocate budgets to digital transformation projects, and 
• How can 1st time engineering leaders today set up a business case to secure funding for their projects?

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In episode 1 of the Vaadin Insider podcast, Ankurman interviews Joonas Lehtinen, co-founder, and CEO of Vaadin, to discuss:

• Vaadin's evolution over the last 20 years to become the frontrunners in the Web,
• The 2 key questions enterprise application architects should ask when evaluating Vaadin as a web UI stack for their business applications, and
• The 3 megatrends shaping the world of Enterprise Business Applications that is steering Vaadin's product vision.

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