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The One Where We Geek Out on Sustainable Applications with Aicha Laafia
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About our guest:
Aicha Laafia Java Software Engineer with a love for coding, a taste for delicious food, and a heart for volunteering. Aicha is also a member of the Moroccan Association of Computing Science, a Women Techmakers and Girls Code ambassador, and an IAmRemarkable facilitator.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- KCD Porto
- Ix-chel Ruiz on Geeking Out
- Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
- J2EE
- Z Garbage Collector (ZCG)
- Shenandoah Garbage Collector
- Java Lombok Project
- Kotlin
- Devoxx Morocco
- DevBarcelona (DevBcn)
- Java Champions
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
- Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA)
- TAG Environmental Sustainability on CNCF Slack
- Kube-Green
- SQLI
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, fellow geeks, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada and geeking out with me today, I have Aisha Laafia. Welcome, Aisha.
AICHA: Welcome, Adriana. And welcome everyone.
ADRIANA: So nice to have you on here and for a little bit of background. Oh, so first of all, actually, where are you calling from today?
AICHA: Well, right now I'm from Lyon in France.
ADRIANA: That's awesome. And you know, given that it's afternoon here in, in Canada when we're recording in Toronto, Canada, um, it's evening for you, so I appreciate you taking the time out of your evening, especially because you, you had an event that you were at earlier today that you ducked out of for this recording, so definitely appreciate that. And you know, I wanted to mention to our viewers slash listeners that the way that you and I met was really cool. We met at KCD Porto in Portugal in September of 2024. And yeah, I, I was keynoting there and then you came up to me after my keynote and we started chatting, and it was just so great chatting with you. I had like such an amazing time and, you were telling me your story, so I can't wait to get into that. But first, I have some lightning round slash icebreaker questions for you. Okay, you