Posts by James Cobb
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Curated online stories, articles, and videos about Quarkus are available in the August 2026 edition of the Quarkus Newsletter.
Hector Ventura, creator of Floci, joins the show to explain what local multi-cloud emulation really means, how a Quarkus native image gets a suite of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI emulators down to 24 ms startup and 13 MB idle memory, and what comes next for the project.
Alex Diniș, CTO at BMW Romania, shares hard numbers from his real-world experiment benchmarking Quarkus against Spring Boot across startup time, memory footprint, Docker image size, and tail latency — then translates every measurement into cloud costs and developer impact.
Curated online stories, articles, and videos about Quarkus are available in the July 2026 edition of the Quarkus Newsletter.
Jeremy Davis returns for a deep dive into a call-for-papers application that demonstrates DDD patterns in action: commands, aggregates, value objects, the outbox pattern, subdomain collaboration, architecture tests with ArchUnit, and how coding agents can follow DDD conventions.
Bruno Baptista and Max Rydahl Andersen walk through a year-over-year analysis of opt-in Quarkus build analytics data, revealing trends in OS adoption, Java version migration, extension popularity, and the geographic spread of the community.
Francesco Nigro shares hard-earned lessons from years of performance engineering work: why performance is a currency, how to benchmark responsibly, the dangers of LLM-assisted analysis, and the mindset required to make real discoveries.
Mark Stoodley explains how IBM Semeru Runtimes and the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM deliver faster startup times and lower memory footprint through shared classes cache technology, and how Quarkus makes it easy to take advantage of these benefits.
Curated online stories, articles, and videos about Quarkus are available in the June 2026 edition of the Quarkus Newsletter.
Stephane Épardaud previews Quarkus Data, the experimental successor to Panache that unifies blocking, reactive, managed, and stateless data access while embracing Jakarta Data type-safe repositories and queries.
